If I recall correctly, one of the purported strengths of mRNA vaccines from way back in the halcyon days of spring/summer 2020 was that they could be rapidly re-engineered to create variant-specific vaccines for any new variants that arose. Was this just misplaced optimism or yet another lie from the serial liars that have infected the medical agencies since the start of the pandemic? Clearly that has not happened.
Marketing hype and ideological agendas are to be expected even in the business of medicine. However, they are antithetical to the scientific assessments intrinsic to the sound practice of medicine.
While it might have been theoretically conceivable even at the beginning that mRNA technology would allow for more rapid vaccine development, it was never plausible that mRNA technology could be evaluated for efficacy and safety faster than existing vaccines and vaccine development technology.
Which makes the "misplaced optimism" itself yet another lie of the serial liars.
I think your comparison to Lysenko is a good one because there are certainly parallels. I only had enough time to skim the article you mentioned in your reply, but I think your statement that "Under Lysenko's leadership, scientific truth was always subordinate to political truth" nails it on the head. Fauci has always been proud of being able to adjust to whatever political winds are blowing.
Isn't this the reason we were told that there was never a vaccine available for the common cold? Perhaps we should be looking at ways to neutralize viruses as they enter our nasal cavity or throat? Try gargling with an alcohol based mouthwash a couple of times per day and using a nasal spray with povidone iodine. Of course this "may" not make big pharma very much money...
To borrow from Sophocles "Antigone": τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ᾽ ἐσθλὸν τῷδ᾽ ἔμμεν' ὅτῳ φρένας θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν"--"if God wishes to guide a man to ruin, that man will see good in evil and it will not be long before ruin strikes him"
I love Topol, he keeps on keeping on about the vaxx, even though had to have known that coronaviruses mutate too much to ever control. The things people do for their 30 pieces of silver.
The pace at which most infectious respiratory pathogens evolve makes them poor candidates for vaccination. The best you can get is something like the seasonal flu shot--good for the current season and that's it.
Any doctor who is unaware of that should find another line of work.
Igor, I'm starting to wonder about that statement "quite a bit less harmful" after all these Covid shots. Wondering if because we weren't seeing them massively given out on a global scale and for the most part, they have been voluntary, if the harm was just not as visible. I vaguely remember a study by a Vancouver scientist that stated if you had the regular seasonal flu shot, and then got H1N1 in the spring that it emerged, her data showed that you were more likely to experience a severe case.
As Igor Chudov has detailed, and as Pfizer's FDA application admits, their bivalent inoculation has not been tested, and clinical trials are just now being organized.
And it still doesn't have a hope in Hell of actually accomplishing anything useful.
Which is the ludicrous part of the whole thing: even in the best case scenario the bivalent inoculations cannot possibly get ahead of the virus.
Remember, I still have this pollyannish optimism about language. When I say useful it's in the context of "actually helping the patient" and "actually working as advertised".
If I recall correctly, one of the purported strengths of mRNA vaccines from way back in the halcyon days of spring/summer 2020 was that they could be rapidly re-engineered to create variant-specific vaccines for any new variants that arose. Was this just misplaced optimism or yet another lie from the serial liars that have infected the medical agencies since the start of the pandemic? Clearly that has not happened.
It was and is an expression of what I call Faucism, which is the latest incarnation of scientific bastardization previously known as Lysenkoism.
https://newsletter.allfactsmatter.us/p/before-faucism-science-endured-lysenkoism
Marketing hype and ideological agendas are to be expected even in the business of medicine. However, they are antithetical to the scientific assessments intrinsic to the sound practice of medicine.
While it might have been theoretically conceivable even at the beginning that mRNA technology would allow for more rapid vaccine development, it was never plausible that mRNA technology could be evaluated for efficacy and safety faster than existing vaccines and vaccine development technology.
Which makes the "misplaced optimism" itself yet another lie of the serial liars.
I think your comparison to Lysenko is a good one because there are certainly parallels. I only had enough time to skim the article you mentioned in your reply, but I think your statement that "Under Lysenko's leadership, scientific truth was always subordinate to political truth" nails it on the head. Fauci has always been proud of being able to adjust to whatever political winds are blowing.
Isn't this the reason we were told that there was never a vaccine available for the common cold? Perhaps we should be looking at ways to neutralize viruses as they enter our nasal cavity or throat? Try gargling with an alcohol based mouthwash a couple of times per day and using a nasal spray with povidone iodine. Of course this "may" not make big pharma very much money...
Amazing article Peter! I am totally in shock over
1) How brazen are the FDA charlatans
2) How gullible is the public
3) How complicit is the media.
Thanks!
The bit that really caught my attention was Pfizer's reference to "pre-clinical data"
Pre-clinical?????
They're putting out a fundamentally untested product, and they're okay with that.
They had exactly zero human testing
And they're proud of it.
To borrow from Sophocles "Antigone": τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ᾽ ἐσθλὸν τῷδ᾽ ἔμμεν' ὅτῳ φρένας θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν"--"if God wishes to guide a man to ruin, that man will see good in evil and it will not be long before ruin strikes him"
https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Antigone.php
In modern usage, the saying has morphed into "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad."
Pfizer (and all of Big Pharma) has gone quite mad. And taken the FDA with them.
I love Topol, he keeps on keeping on about the vaxx, even though had to have known that coronaviruses mutate too much to ever control. The things people do for their 30 pieces of silver.
The pace at which most infectious respiratory pathogens evolve makes them poor candidates for vaccination. The best you can get is something like the seasonal flu shot--good for the current season and that's it.
Any doctor who is unaware of that should find another line of work.
And often that seasonal flu shot isn't really good for the current season either!
Flu shots are also snake oil and quackery. They are, however, quite a bit less harmful.
Igor, I'm starting to wonder about that statement "quite a bit less harmful" after all these Covid shots. Wondering if because we weren't seeing them massively given out on a global scale and for the most part, they have been voluntary, if the harm was just not as visible. I vaguely remember a study by a Vancouver scientist that stated if you had the regular seasonal flu shot, and then got H1N1 in the spring that it emerged, her data showed that you were more likely to experience a severe case.
This likely happened to me with my first and only flu shot a while ago. Flu shot and then a horrible flu. Never again
...no, but the maiming and killing continues..... mask, mandates back in some parts of Canada already..... https://www.rebelnews.com/covid_boosters_masking_western_university_vaccine_mandates
As Igor Chudov has detailed, and as Pfizer's FDA application admits, their bivalent inoculation has not been tested, and clinical trials are just now being organized.
And it still doesn't have a hope in Hell of actually accomplishing anything useful.
Which is the ludicrous part of the whole thing: even in the best case scenario the bivalent inoculations cannot possibly get ahead of the virus.
Depends on how "useful" is defined
Remember, I still have this pollyannish optimism about language. When I say useful it's in the context of "actually helping the patient" and "actually working as advertised".
Silly, I know.
Well, exactly...which is what makes this so mind-boggling and crazy..... https://sheldonyakiwchuk.substack.com/p/canada-just-locked-into-12-million?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
This is what Faucism is. This is what Lysenkoism was before.
When ideology infects science, nothing good ever results.
...and Trudeau-ism...is that a thing? 'cause nothing good comes from him either.....
I say keep it going at this point. Keep shooting yourselves in the foot until it becomes impossible to deny.
Topol. Oof.