What does the “average” layperson know about viral infections? What do they know about their treatments? What do they know about vaccines – those that used to be called (and were) such?
The honest answer is: nothing! This is specialists’ knowledge; that’s why they are paid after all. Some, for various reasons, would go further: the “average person” should know nothing! Why tire his mind? Aren’t his daily ignorances enough?
Correct… No matter how developed (or think they are) the capitalist societies we know, no matter how overgrown the egos that constitute them, everyone must be human when it comes to health issues (and not only those, after all). Even if these (health issues) are already a daily mega-ignorance, regardless of covid and before it… Even if there is suspicion that the moral integrity of the specialists-who-know is, perhaps, debatable; and certainly not self-evident. Even if the depth of ignorance grows dangerously as the health industry develops, creating an abyssal void between citizens (and their idea of themselves) and their own bodies. Even so, the advice is diffuse, it is old, and seems to remain convincing within its repellent nature: believe and do not investigate!
If this is the correct individual and collective stance, and if from this stance emerges as “social responsibility” the discipline of ignorance, then the “average” citizen has fallen into the state of raw meat—even if he does not wish or cannot admit it. Because the health industry, perhaps more than other industries, neither jokes around nor deals with anyone’s “daily ignorances.” At the time when someone undergoes a routine examination, let’s say entering a magnetic resonance imaging machine, it is reasonable of course for him to worry about what the digital imaging “will show,” even though he himself cannot understand anything there. However, before or after, in moments when he is not anxious, he could wonder… Not about the accuracy of MRI scans, but about the kind of medicine they represent; about the vast distance between his body standing upright in daily activity and the same body as a great unknown lying down and motionless, about to reveal its secrets in a technical and technically mysterious way; even about how this machine works…
And this is simply a rather familiar example. What about genetic engineering? Almost everyone, and certainly all those who are sure they “learned and know” because they saw an expert on television (or the internet) reassuring and lulling them, open their eyes in surprise (sometimes even with indignation) when they hear that what is being offered to them as “vaccines” are not such.
There exists a completely real world, a world perhaps even more real than the “everyday notions” that are considered the opiate of each one’s cognitive (and conscious) disarmament, a world that defines the lives (and the “notions”) of hundreds of millions: this entirely real world includes the entire spectrum of techno-scientists of “health,” whatever one understands by the word “health.” It is not secret, it is not hidden; it is well entrenched within the fragmented “middle” perception of reality. It is epistemologically entrenched (they are the “specialists who know”), institutionally (they are the technobureaucrats of state administration or/and the staff of enterprises, universities, institutes, research projects), ideologically, economically… The research and findings of those operating in this world are not hidden; at least to the extent that they are required to publish them in the (still accessible and without many barriers) cyber realm. Of course, there is always that repulsive jargon of every category of specialists when they converse among themselves. But football also has its own jargon; it doesn’t seem to be an obstacle for the numerous football fans. Which means that with some effort, some persistence, this generally “invisible” world of those who make decisions about our lives is accessible.
And it should be individually and collectively claimed! Good God, we’re not talking about those searching for black holes in the endless cosmos, nor about those looking for bosons at CERN! They deal with health! How fateful can the believing and non-believing research be for this everyday phenomenon called (still…) decent life?
The following text concerns some of those things that the “average…” should not know, should not waste his time to learn. They are excerpts from an article published on the Global Research site, on December 13, 2020, signed by John Adam Kliczek, with the general title How Big Pharma’s algorithms “approve” untested drugs.
Our own in continuation…
Big data, big pharma, big government: the CORD-19 project
… On March 16, 2020, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a “call to action” to the nation’s experts on artificial intelligence. To participate in the “Covid-19 Open Research Database” (Covid-19 Open Research Database / CORD-19), which was created by a public-private collaboration, between Microsoft, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative1, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Oren Etzioni2, the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University, and the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health.
According to the magazine Spectrum (published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the White House-backed CORD-19 project mined data from over “130,000 academic articles on covid-19, articles that were in a machine-readable format.” These articles, scanned from Kaggle, Google’s “cloud-based machine learning” program, were processed using artificial intelligence in order to derive predictive analytical conclusions from the medical literature regarding covid-19. To further promote the analytical advantages of Kaggle in relation to the CORD-19 project, Google announced on March 16 the “covid-19 research challenge” initiative. Meanwhile, the “neural network” AlphaFold from Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence program created digital models of “three-dimensional imaging of sars-cov-2 proteins based on the virus’s genetic sequence,” as Spectrum reported.
Shortly after the White House’s “call to action” on March 23, the Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the creation of a “High Performance Computing Consortium for covid-19” (HPC): a public-private partnership between the American federal government, international universities and Big Tech companies, which undertook the mission to expand research and development of a vaccine for covid-19.
The list of participants in the covid HPC includes: IBM, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard, Intel, NVIDIA, the D.E. Shaw research center, NASA, the national center for supercomputing applications, MIT, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, the San Diego supercomputer center, the Indiana University Diffusion Institute, the Ohio supercomputer center, the Open Science network, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the UK’s research center for digital infrastructures, the Swiss national supercomputing center, the Swedish national infrastructure for computing’s high performance computing center, the South Korean Institute for Information Science and Technology, and the Japanese RIKEN center for computational sciences.
In short, the White House promotes the CORD-19 database, the COVID HPC consortium, and “Operation Warp Speed” in a coordinated effort to fund research on experimental vaccines by Big Pharma, accelerated through Big Data and three-dimensional modeling of SARS-CoV-2 structures via artificial intelligence, in order to target biotechnologically constructed synthetic mRNA proteins and DNA plasmids, manufactured through machine learning…
Perhaps this great leap forward in vaccine research sounds like a scientific epic necessary to deal with covid. However, we must emphasize here that the American food and drug administration (FDA) had never before approved the use in humans of experimental vaccines for any variant of coronaviruses due to the serious infectious autoimmune side effects they had in animal trials. At the same time, neither the mRNA vaccines, nor the DNA plasmids, nor the genetically modified adenovirus vaccines had ever before been approved for use in humans in the US. Obviously the question arises: how did these experimental preparations, which had never been approved by the FDA, suddenly now declared safe and effective for the first time in history, while being subject to less strict controls and the standard control protocols being cut short due to urgent need? Since when has the appearance of a vaccine on the market with the greatest speed ever in history increased its safety and effectiveness?
Let’s be clear. No amount of Big Data can reduce the margins of error that will exist from “on the spot” checks compared to the classic and time-consuming review of drugs. Even if this speed is supported by the best supercomputers, programmed with the most complex artificial intelligence algorithms.
Even if Big AI’s algorithms can potentially close the margins of error between digital theory and the reality of clinical trials, it must be emphasized that the companies participating in this warp-speed venture, including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen Pharmaceutical, and Johnson & Johnson, have a history of promoting fraudulent Algorithmic Medical Schemes that boost their stocks and deceive Medicaid services3 into paying for their antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs, even though these caused serious side effects, even deaths.
The first of these algorithmic plans to be funded by Big Pharma was the Texas Algorithmic Medicine Plan (TMAP), which was largely created by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; it is the tax-exempt charitable arm of Johnson & Johnson. With the support of the pharmaceutical industry, which is the most powerful lobby in the U.S., TMAP was promoted as a model for other states, including California, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Washington D.C. According to Allen Jones, a public interest whistleblower from the office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General:
“…the pharmaceutical companies involved either in funding or directly creating and promoting TMAP include: Janssen Pharmaceutical, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Novartis, Janssen-Ortho-McNeil, GlaxoSmithKline, Abbott, Bristol Myers Squibb, Wyeth-Ayerst Forrest Laboratories, and U.S. Pharmacopeia.”
These companies effectively promoted TMAP on a national scale, where it acquired different packaging as the New Freedom Commission for Mental Health, from the administration of George W. Bush, who had pioneered promoting TMAP as governor of Texas.
The purpose of TMAP was to standardize pharmaceutical algorithms for public health services that would require treatments and drugs from those pushed by the TMAP cartel. When clinical trials showed that the new antipsychotics from Big Pharma were not better than previous drugs, the TMAP pharmaceutical lobby paid a number of doctors and psychiatrists, such as Jack Gorman from the New York pediatric institute, to create the “Expert Consensus Guidelines,” which promoted the use of Risperdal (Johnson & Johnson), Seroquel (AstraZeneca), Geodon (Pfizer), and other new drugs as “safer” and “more effective” than the generic drugs already in use. Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical lobby began buying state health officials, such as Steven Karp and Steven Fiorello from the Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health, who established a corresponding Algorithmic Medicine Plan in the state…
When TMAP was formatted by Bush through presidential order 13623, with the directive for schools to “screen” students for “psychological problems” that would be treated with cartel drugs, 14 of the 22 commissioners who held the relevant post had ties to the various state “Plans…” Meanwhile, during his pre-election campaigns, Bush received at least $709,000 from TMAP’s pharmaceutical companies: at least $160,000 from Pfizer, $239,000 from Eli Lilly, $10,000 from GlaxoSpithKline, and $300,000 from Johnson & Johnson.
When the TMAP fraud was exposed, Johnson & Johnson was forced to pay $158 million to settle a case in Texas, with the allegation that it defrauded the state’s Medicaid system by making it pay for “unsubstantiated” or “off-label”4 prescriptions of Risperdal. Similarly, AstraZeneca paid $520 million to settle a lawsuit for false and fraudulent promotion of off-label prescriptions of Seroquel. Meanwhile, Pfizer’s lies regarding the off-label prescription of Geodon cost the company a settlement of $2.3 billion, which until then was the largest fine ever imposed on a pharmaceutical company in U.S. history. GlaxoSmithKline managed to surpass Pfizer’s record by paying $3 billion for the fraudulent promotion of pediatric prescriptions for its drugs Paxil and Wellbutrin, in which promotion the TMAP algorithms had also been used. In short, the use of “algorithms” for certifying the value and safety of drugs has a heavy history of deception and fines, with the very same companies that are now participating in “Operation Warp Speed” as the main players.
It is certain that the TMAP algorithms, which are essentially “flowcharts” for prescribing drugs with, at the very least, questionable diagnostic criteria, are not nearly as complex as those developed by IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and other specialists in supercomputing, using artificial intelligence, for the sake of today’s “Operation Warp Speed.” Today’s medical algorithms are far more complex than the TMAP flowcharts, especially since Big Pharma and Big Data companies have merged to some extent through biotech partnerships: Pfizer with IBM’s Watson; AstraZeneca with BenevolentAI; Johnson & Johnson with BenevolentAI; and GlaxoSmithKline with Exscientia and Insilico. Yet, the fact that “Operation Warp Speed” has access to larger volumes of data and better algorithms does not change the business model of these pharma giants at all; their model being to exaggerate the accuracy of the data analyses they conduct, just as they did with the accuracy of the TMAP algorithms.
[…]Now that the global pharmaceutical cartel, with the support of the World Economic Forum, is capitalizing on the panic surrounding covid in order to gain control over drug regulatory bodies and approval processes, and through the approval of mRNA vaccines, the commercial prospect is to open Pandora’s box with new mRNA “drugs” which, according to Elon Musk, can be created to genetically modify the human species.
Practically, the discussion has already begun regarding the possibilities of mRNA vaccines that will be industrialized to protect against cancer in the near future, while there are also other prospects for mRNA technologies, such as constructing stem cells. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s company Tesla has built a “bio-reactor” which is an “RNA printer,” designed to assist CureVac in its efforts to create an mRNA vaccine for covid. In short, the fear of covid is being exploited to accelerate the use of mRNA vaccines along with DNA plasmids and genetically modified adenoviruses, with the purpose of giving an initial boost to the experimental biotechnological industry, which is intended to be one of the cornerstones of the 4th industrial revolution, which, according to Klaus Schwab of the W.E.F., will bring a post-human synthesis of our physical, digital, and biological identity through bio-genetic engineering guided by artificial intelligence.
Bio-informatics-security complex
The above facts about Kliczek are few; there are far more. However, they are sufficient to prove what we have been arguing for months on various occasions. Namely, that given the nature of both large pharmaceutical companies (their nature in relation to the smaller and greater crimes they have committed over recent decades – always with the aim of maximizing shareholder profits) and large information technology companies (with their proven exploitation of their customers’ personal data as well as their collaboration with states and public order services), the “management of the pandemic” (i.e., of the terror campaign) has been undertaken by a cohesive and aggressive alliance of those bosses who already dominate and will dominate even more structurally in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
What every “average…” person grasps from all this complex situation is some statements and a syringe in their arm. They ignore everything else. And above all, they ignore that this campaign to get the syringe into their arm has no good intentions whatsoever. Each of the involved companies, and all of them together in cooperation with various state services (whether funding or public order ones), has a predetermined agenda.
It would have been much easier if research efforts aimed at “saving humanity from covid” had focused on developing traditional vaccines using weakened viruses… It is a proven method, not demanding in terms of vaccine distribution and storage, and certainly there are far more pharmaceutical companies in the Western world that possess the know-how and machinery to produce such vaccines – compared to mRNA platforms, plasmid/DNA platforms, or genetically modified adenoviruses. Moreover, these traditional vaccines were (and remain) effective.
If the criteria were the protection of public health, easy access and distribution, low cost, effectiveness and safety, then the good old vaccine technology was the sure way. But no: it was excluded! The choice was a mix of artificial intelligence applications, genetic engineering experiments, populism and blackmail. With completely uncertain health outcome, but with desired benefits of a completely different kind.
If the “average…” was not so entrenched in the hidden ignorance and prohibitions of the division of knowledge (between all kinds of “specialists” and the masses of “non-specialists”) that end up harvesting the metaphysics of power, and if it had to retain just one single event as a criterion for understanding what is happening, then that would be the non-compulsory choice of Western companies and states for a risky (for citizens) mass experiment. Why did all this complex need to be launched towards technologies of unknown health value and, as is likely, with medium-term / long-term harmful consequences for the “average…”? The answer to this question simultaneously illuminates both the “what and why” of the health terror campaign (which is almost exclusively a Western phenomenon) and the “what and why” of bioinformatics “therapy,” from now on.
There is a phrase in Kliczek’s text that is particularly enlightening and, unfortunately, does not concern the distant future:
…Now that the global pharmaceutical cartel, with the support of the global economic forum, is capitalizing on the panic surrounding covid in order to gain control over the drug regulatory bodies and processes, and to control them through the approval of mRNA vaccines, the commercial prospect is to open Pandora’s box with new mRNA “drugs”…
On the contrary, one would have to be blind or worse to ignore (or hide) this relationship…
If in the biotechnological department of the core of the hygiene terror campaign there is a “technological leap” of the health industry, with the widespread adoption of methods that a year ago would have been rejected without a second thought as dangerous and unethical, there is another department in the same core, more “political”: the leveling of drug approval processes that were historically created to protect public health… from its “saviors”.
The famous American “food and drug administration” is an example (food and drug administration / FDA). Its origin dates back to 1883, when the “chemistry office” of the American Department of Health was established, with the purpose of checking fraud and lies in the food and drug trade in the US. Even then, health business interests were advancing the challenge of causing harm to their customers; something that today many have forgotten, mythologizing and even sanctifying for decades the health mafias.
Shortly thereafter, in 1902, the agency’s responsibilities were expanded by the “Biologics Control Act,” when it was revealed that a toxic agent derived from tetanus had been used in children’s vaccines, resulting in the deaths of 13 children in St. Louis. The FDA took the form it maintained for the remainder of the 20th century in 1938, under President Franklin Roosevelt, who legislated drug control by independent experts before they were released to the market, as well as strict penalties for false therapeutic claims regarding one or another product of the pharmaceutical industry. Within 50 years, from the 1890s to the 1930s, nothing had changed in the “business culture” of American (and presumably other Western) pharmaceutical companies; what was needed was closer and stricter oversight of them…
Decades have passed, pharmaceutical companies have grown exponentially, and no national public health protection agencies remained untouched by them. Scandals of bribery involving employees and their regulators became known sometimes in one country and sometimes in another. Technically speaking, however, they remained the guarantors of drug safety and efficacy. And if it turned out that they were deceived by pharmaceutical companies (as began to happen extensively in the last decades of the 20th century), they could impose large fines. If not these fines themselves, surely the revelation that a certain company was deceiving regulatory mechanisms and customers became a burden for their CEOs and shareholders.
What from these controls could remain in place and at what exact position in the era of rapid influx of “new technologies” from the side of health industry? The proof and the trend are in front of everyone’s eyes. All relevant western (and not only) organizations accepted, either through strong “political” and corporate pressures or even through selected acquisitions / bribes, to cut the necessary time of clinical trials of genetic engineering constructions to the minimum: months instead of years. The reason that became an easy justification was the “emergency situation” due to the “high lethality” of sars-cov-2… Only that this “high lethality” was cooked in very specific areas of the world, and after previously prohibiting any other medical proposal for a different, much more realistic and, above all, “anti-terrorism” approach to the issue. In short, the “emergency situation” was not a product of the virus, but a construction of specific and by no means negligible capitalist interests. Among them, those of the major pharmaceutical mafias. So that it could subsequently be used as blackmail both towards the “regulatory authorities” and towards the populations.
Nevertheless, even months (instead of years) remain an obstacle to the rapid and aggressive movement and profitability of pharmaceutical companies in the 21st capitalist century. The reason is simple, and can be identified in why this particular sector of the health industry a la 4th industrial revolution cannot “wait” (to prove or not the safety and effectiveness of its constructions…) for two years, let’s say, or five years: because within two years the natural general immunity of the population will have been achieved; consequently its “salvation” goods will be useless. This is what happened with tamiflu in 2009 / 2010: the terrible and horrendous (alleged) “swine flu” was neither terrible nor horrendous; and it lasted little, much less than the Armageddon-like predictions of the “models” and the fraudsters who use them. Ferguson of Imperial College London was then among the exaggerations… Tamiflu had indeed already been sold / bought; but this was considered a huge scandal, especially since it was proven that “people from pharmaceutical companies” worked at the world health organization that declared, then, the “maximum risk”…
However, they cannot wait for months!!! In India, for example, the second most populous country in the world, where very strict restrictions were decided but, possibly, due to social reality were not implemented as planned, it is very likely that population immunity is already a fact! In less than a year! A capitalist state that simply prefers (or is forced due to social awareness…) to use its revenues for other purposes will not rush to fall at the feet of pharmaceutical CEOs to buy 3 billion “doses” of something it doesn’t need; or needs much less…
The speed—that, thanks to technology, appears to citizens as therapy—is accepted by them as proof of care. Both from the state’s side and from the side of capitalist companies. But the exact opposite is true: speed concerns the shortening of the circulation time of goods in general and of health industry goods in particular; speed is the “necessity” of profitability, of accumulation, of the realization of surplus value above all!
But this “golden speed” in shaping “urgent needs” in the inelastic “drug market” as well as in covering them—a speed that has become almost instantaneous thanks to demagogic/propagandist mechanisms on the one hand and certain technical characteristics of genetic engineering on the other—stumbles upon age-old control structures. Slow, “bureaucratic”… Which, even if they have been bought, must still pretend to conduct thorough and careful checks, for the protection of public health… It would be preferable in the capitalist 21st century either to officially discard these structures or to make them purely decorative.
Indeed, they are very close to the second version….
Ziggy Stardust
- The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is the “philanthropic arm” of the Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan couple, according to the model of a similar Gates couple…. Unlimited trust in the bosses – right; ↩︎
- Oren Etzioni, an Israeli-American entrepreneur and artificial intelligence expert, is also a systematic ideology producer as an author of articles, publications, and books. ↩︎
- Medicaid is the federal and state agency that undertakes to cover the health care expenses mainly of the poor in the US. ↩︎
- “Off label” is the term used for the use of a drug not for the disease or type of patients (e.g. age) for which it has been approved, but elsewhere and otherwise. It is a “window” of state legislation, which relieves state services from the responsibilities of the unapproved use of drugs, transferring them either to companies, or to doctors, or to consumers. During the “experimental treatments” against covid, such uses of unapproved drugs, which are for other cases, were massively made; resulting in tens of thousands of deaths. Of course, they were charged to covid – and nobody is responsible.. ↩︎