In ancient Rome, men who want to wield enormous influence and become fabulously wealthy while doing so would form triumvirates (e.g., the Marc Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian in 43 BC).We are now living under a new triumvirate: Big Pharma, Big Government and Big Media.Thanks to the now-unchained Twitter, a viral video from Project Vertias that purportedly shows a senior Pfizer employee talking about covid vaccine and “directed evolution” has spread widely social media.However, despite the shocking revelations from that seemingly high-level executive, there has been no detailed, follow-up analysis on the content of the video by American news organizations.That is, with the exception of Tucker Carlson:
The 20-minute segment has a lot to unpack, but I would like to pick out a few elements to highlight as they pertain to showing the power of the new triumvirate of Americans of all classes, genders, and political viewpoints.The pro-transparency news organization Project Veritas just released an undercover video of a Pfizer executive bragging on camera about how his company conducts a kind of Frankenstein science, manipulating COVID viruses for profit, imperiling potentially the entire world, doing it in secret, possibly in violation of federal law, bragging about this.So, no matter what your politics are, doesn’t matter who you voted for, that’s a huge story and you would think every reporter in this country would be itching to follow up on it, calling Pfizer, telling the public about it, but no, that’s not happening.
Big Media is now working hard with Big Tech organizations to hide information on the executive, Jordon Trishton Walker, and the story. Here is what my Google search gave me as I began researching for this post.
In the video, one of the key elements that has drawn everyone’s attention as the chat about “gain of function” and “directed evolution”.
JOURNALIST: Directed evolution, OK. So, I mean, is that what it is then?TRISHTON WALKER: Maybe. I don’t — well, you’re not supposed to do gain-of-function research with the viruses. They rather we not, but you do things like selected structural mutations to try to see if you could make it more potent. So, there is research ongoing about that. I
don’t know how that’s going to work. There better not be any more outbreaks because, like, Jesus Christ.
Let’s break down the terminology, then.
A gain-of-function experiment produces genetic blueprint changes that confer new or enhanced activity on a protein (e.g., it becoming more infectious to a species).
A directed evolution (DE) experiment uses protein engineering that mimics the process of natural selection to steer proteins or nucleic acids toward a user-defined goal (i,e,, iterative rounds of mutagenesis to create variants), selection of those variants with the desire qualities, and amplification (generating a template for the next round).
While the tools may be slightly different, the goal of both is new combination with desired properties. The Pfizer executive clearly shows that their experimental approach has created an entirely new beast: The Cash Cow.
All of this information is troubling, especially in the wake of increasing concerns about the long-term health consequences of the vaccines.
Yet, Big Media is not letting Big Pharma down at this point. Newsweek, for example, responded by trashing Project Veritas and blaming those commenting on Twitter for spreading….misinformation.
Newsweek has asked Project Veritas for this footage and a full transcript of the conversation and contacted Pfizer about the interviewee and details of any of the experiments described or inferred.Whatever the authenticity of the video or the factuality of its content, some of the comments shared online in response to it are misleading characterizations of what it shows.
I would be remiss if I did not also point out the role of the third power player in this triumvirate: Big Government.
TRISHTON WALKER: …is a revolving door for all government officials for any industry though. So, in the pharma industry, all the government officials who review our drugs eventually come work for pharma companies and the military… defense government officials eventually go work for the defense companies afterwards.JOURNALIST: How do you feel about that revolving door?TRISHTON WALKER: It’s pretty good for the industry to be honest. It’s bad for everybody else in America.
Interestingly, a watchdog group has just determined that poor oversight and loopholes mean risky virus research feared to have started the Covid pandemic in China continues to go on in the US (and likely elsewhere around the globe).
That is the damning conclusion of a report — prompted by an explosive DailyMail.com revelation — into rules around ‘gain of function’ studies.The Congressional watchdog group the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that federal oversight of the most sensitive scientific experimentation was far too weak and ineffective.
Now, Trishton Walker may have been indulging in bar-talk to impress a date. However, I will conclude this post with Latin wisdom to tie it all together: In vino veritas.
One last thought:
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