What strikes me is the close to criminal behaviour of both Moderna (helped by the NIH and Biden administration) and Pfizer, marketing a product that was known to be defective from the first RCTs (the full contents of which were only released thanks to a federal judge). The claim of 95% efficacy was never true, and the mRNA vaccines (and for that matter the DNA-based AZ adenovirus vaccine) were never safe and effective. This sorry state of affairs simply reflects the hubris of the elites and the permanent civil service typified by the likes of Toni Fauci and Francis Collins in the US, all of whom were fixated in a complete and unfettered belief in new, untested biomedical high tech at all costs. It will be good if law suits are brought that get round the exemptions that Pfizer and Moderna were given by the federal government, and that the magnitude of the damages is such as to make these companies and their founders/executive in the case of Moderna go bankrupt. Then perhaps, and only then, will pharma realize that marketing dangerous products is not to their long-term advantage, and hiding inconvenient facts is thoroughly unethical.
What is so odd about this article is that it says Moderna “created one of the most effective vaccines during the outbreak”. It supports the lying mantra that the vaccine was safe and effective! Maybe just another Unherd edit?
Unsafe, almost wholly ineffective and for any healthy person under 60, completely unnecessary and demonstrably counter-productive, suppressing the lasting, broad-spectrum natural immunity they would otherwise have obtained. Any intelligent, numerate layman could work this out for himself, from official stats, within a few months of these pseudo-vaccines first becoming available.
What’s so odd is how matter of fact this seems now but there’s no outcry about this and Andrew Bridgen has been sidelined as an embarrassment. It will only get bigger of course and class-action lawsuits have the best chance of eviscerating the beast.
Kirk Susong
5 months ago
It doesn’t alarm me that Moderna wants to persuade people to buy its product. The danger lies in (1) the government trying to force private companies to favor or disfavor particular speech, and (2) the public’s tendency to forget that there is no such thing as a disinterested public voice – there’s either a direct monetary incentive, or a reputational one, or a professional one, or an ideological one, etc.
I agree. It’s easy to spot the self interest of corporations. The growth and influence of NGOs, often covertly financed by corporations and other self-interested parties, is much more dangerous. We need some laws or regulations to make the funding and support of NGOs more transparent.
There is. The other comments (‘it’s easy to spot corporate self-interest’) overlook that when corporate self-interest is hidden behind ‘the public good’, it’s harder to spot.
While I agree with you on the Government corruption/ Criminal violation of the U.S. Constitution aspect, I disagree with you on Moderna trying to persuade people to buy a produce which they knew was not only ineffective but was HARMFUL and Dangerous as their own studies pointed out.
We can see the new paradigm: Empower the Multinat corporations to do what it’s illegal for the government to do directly (not that that’s stopping them). Give them qualified immunity, high-tech surveillance tools, access to data bases and staff of ex-deep state operators to consummate the Corporate/Central government bedding ceremony.
Andrew Horsman
5 months ago
Lest anyone forget: this is a company that proudly described its product as being like a computer “operating system” for the human body, on to which various “apps” could be downloaded. Make no mistake, this is a spiritual battle for the minds, bodies and souls of mankind.
Lesley van Reenen
5 months ago
Meanwhile Sir Novak – the poster boy of the pushback, is going from strength to strength.
Last night another record – most ATP Finals ever won. This on the back of 4 Grand Slam finals in 2023 (of which he won 3), the most Grand Slams ever won, the most ATP Masters titles ever won, finishes the year at No 1, has the record for the most weeks ever at number 1. On it goes, as does he.
He’s certainly the best hardcourt player. Fed the best grass player and of course Rafa the finest on clay. All the overall numbers dominant for Nole. No gaps in his game, clinical efficiency. Not the most loved, but the most wins.
Yes Novak can get wins on all surfaces. The best all round. He is only one behind Federer on grass slams…. Rafa almost, but not completely the one trick pony. I am certainly a fan of Novak’s, especially because he is giving the US and Aus the middle finger. Who knows where he would be if he hadn’t been banned over the last couple of years.
Yes. And I doubt he’ll become one of those professional athletes who collapse on the pitch/ court/ course with sudden out-of-the-blue heart attacks .
Allison Barrows
5 months ago
No amount of slick advertising or government pressure convinced me or my husband to submit to the jab. We got the virus last month (according to a home test kit, so it could have just as easily been a regular flu). It was largely three days of fatigue and chicken soup.
Everyone we know who has submitted got the virus post-jab, often more than once. Nearly all have had odd health issues, from tinnitus to strange body aches to period stoppages. They also seem to get sick every few months with sore throats, sinus infections, and coughs.
It seems to me these drug companies, with government help, devised a way to keep everyone profitably ill, since their shots don’t protect anyone from C19. Sort of like Planned Parenthood rebranding itself as a provider of the nonsensically-termed “gender-affirming care” now that its lucrative abortion money is drying up.
On your first two pars, exactly so. I resolutely refused their rubbish jabs and while I finally contracted a sniffle that tested as ‘Covid-19’ at the very tail end of the ‘pandemic’, it was no worse than a slight flu or average cold, and I have been 1 since. Like you, many I know who had the jabs – the terminally credulous, sadly – seem to keep catching Covid again and again, even as late as this autumn.
Lee Wood
5 months ago
The heroes of anti vax resistance are confirmed ! No matter other flaws of conduct or ethics which might be used to deflect support – these heroes are creating very justifiable reaction and debate in the media, albeit fringe. The authors efforts provide valuable and tangible evidence of just how the corporatocrats go about their grisly business, which not only leads to higher profits, but also greater public control of discourse, public health, behaviour and ultimately genomic steering. Bravo !
Daniel Lee
5 months ago
The vaccine matter is only the beginning. The Forever Government and its outside-the-gate allies in media, academia, and entertainment have discovered the key to a problem they’ve been worried about – increasing public skepticism about the scope and independence of government. Hampered by the annoying First Amendment, they’ve turned to private entities to crush speech that challenges them.
Peter Christine
5 months ago
And of course Moderna has a amenable partner in the U.S. government that certainly doesn’t want to risk a major scandal around its own false narratives, Biden’s deliberate vilification of 1/3 of its citizens, and the mis-handling of the Covid scare.
The financial markets correct for the lies and respond appropriately by dumping the stock. By contrast, multiple governments, their agencies and the other authoritarians amongst us continue to try to defend the indefensible.
Yes. A few pars of that is worth a tonne of opinion.
Rocky Martiano
5 months ago
Shock horror! Big Pharma is in league with government and Big Tech to push their evil products on an unsuspecting public and suppress any dissenting views as disinformation. Is there really anyone left who hasn’t realised what’s been going on for the last two years?
This article is poorly written and seems to be claiming some sort of scoop for what has been common knowledge for most of that time.
I would say the value added by this article is they provide hard evidence of the conspiracy you describe and also the extent of ongoing collusion between government and corporations. If anything, the push to take the covid vaccines is increasing even as the lethality of the disease decreases.
Corporatism in action.
Are we really going to have to learn this the hard way again?
Andrew Martin
5 months ago
There are brave people out there who are fighting this giant dystopian anti science culture. There’s the likes of Prof Angus Dalgleish who told the useless Whitty and Valance that the Virus was created in the Lab. Although a practising Oncologist he has thirty years experience in Virology.
The Guy has created an HIV vaccine that attacks the core of the virus while the “Club” persist with their Mrna antigen based vaccines(Covid) attacking the envelope of the virus which actually acts as a decoy. He’s also developed a Cancer vaccine that successfully treats Skin Melanomas by firing up the immune T cell response. It also stops Covid and Flu in its tracks.
Well it did until his cancer patients started getting relapses. Yes you guessed it, they’d had their Covid Boosters and he found after two boosters the immune system just shut down something called antigen resistance enhancement whereby the immune system says I’ve had enough of this abuse and shuts down.
This month he is publishing a book with co Authors called The death of Science. But you won’t find it in any Bookshops because our dystopian Government has banned them from selling it.
Two perfectly healthy UG males died on the dehree.programme I teach on. Cobort size 126 students. Myocarditis.
james elliott
5 months ago
“The most important thing for Moderna is that people keep having their jabs”
And that’s the whole problem.
Why are we allowing manufacturers of *vaccines* (particularly ones that have demonstrably maimed and even kill people) behave as though they were Nike or Pepsi?
Why are we allowing them to bribe corrupt politicians and doctors?
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si mclardy
5 months ago
Why people believe “fact checking” sites with little to no accountability is beyond me! We have junior medical journalist critiquing experts like Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Batacharia etc. I really do want to see some of the criminals in Jail. And yes it is criminal to lie about a medical product. Throw the books at these depraved actors.
Last edited 5 months ago by si mclardy
Jane In Toronto
3 months ago
We need evidence that this network of professionals who jump on anyone who denigrates a pharma product are paid or compensated (or coerced) in some way.
Benjamin Greco
5 months ago
Nothing in this article surprises me anymore. I would expect nothing less from Moderna. In the neo-liberal, economic order profit is everything, truth and ethics are nothing. Government has become a tool corporations use to maximize profit. Government by the corporation and for the corporation. People are mere consumers and Guinee pigs.
There is no politician on the horizon who is willing or capable of breaking their grip on power and return us to a regulated, fairer form of capitalism. I don’t see ethics making a comeback either, in our reality TV world. We are decadent and we are corrupt that is just the way it is. There is no revolution in sight, yet.
That being said, I just had my sixth shot (not Moderna, Pfizer). I have to live in the real world, and I have to weigh risk. I see less risk in being vaccinated than in not being vaccinated. I hate food companies too, but I have to eat.
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted.
I agree wholeheartedly with your first two paragraphs. Your vaccine preference is your own personal choice and has no bearing on your well-expressed views on the state-corporate axis (which is actually the definition of fascism).
Benjamin, see my comment above you. After two boosters your immune system shuts down. We still cannot talk about this on MSM. It seems our politicians are intellectually dim when it comes to science and are being led like sheep. In the UK our Government has set up the Counter Disinformation Unit, something out of 1984. BTW I’ve just had Covid and it was no more than a heavy cold. Remember Omicron only affects the upper airways unlike the other variants. Stay well topped up with Vitamin D3 which is more important than these Mrna vaccines
What strikes me is the close to criminal behaviour of both Moderna (helped by the NIH and Biden administration) and Pfizer, marketing a product that was known to be defective from the first RCTs (the full contents of which were only released thanks to a federal judge). The claim of 95% efficacy was never true, and the mRNA vaccines (and for that matter the DNA-based AZ adenovirus vaccine) were never safe and effective. This sorry state of affairs simply reflects the hubris of the elites and the permanent civil service typified by the likes of Toni Fauci and Francis Collins in the US, all of whom were fixated in a complete and unfettered belief in new, untested biomedical high tech at all costs. It will be good if law suits are brought that get round the exemptions that Pfizer and Moderna were given by the federal government, and that the magnitude of the damages is such as to make these companies and their founders/executive in the case of Moderna go bankrupt. Then perhaps, and only then, will pharma realize that marketing dangerous products is not to their long-term advantage, and hiding inconvenient facts is thoroughly unethical.
What is so odd about this article is that it says Moderna “created one of the most effective vaccines during the outbreak”. It supports the lying mantra that the vaccine was safe and effective! Maybe just another Unherd edit?
Unsafe, almost wholly ineffective and for any healthy person under 60, completely unnecessary and demonstrably counter-productive, suppressing the lasting, broad-spectrum natural immunity they would otherwise have obtained. Any intelligent, numerate layman could work this out for himself, from official stats, within a few months of these pseudo-vaccines first becoming available.
What’s so odd is how matter of fact this seems now but there’s no outcry about this and Andrew Bridgen has been sidelined as an embarrassment. It will only get bigger of course and class-action lawsuits have the best chance of eviscerating the beast.
It doesn’t alarm me that Moderna wants to persuade people to buy its product. The danger lies in (1) the government trying to force private companies to favor or disfavor particular speech, and (2) the public’s tendency to forget that there is no such thing as a disinterested public voice – there’s either a direct monetary incentive, or a reputational one, or a professional one, or an ideological one, etc.
I agree. It’s easy to spot the self interest of corporations. The growth and influence of NGOs, often covertly financed by corporations and other self-interested parties, is much more dangerous. We need some laws or regulations to make the funding and support of NGOs more transparent.
There’s a difference between “persuading people to buy” and “corrupting public policy making to compel people to accept”, isn’t there?
There is. The other comments (‘it’s easy to spot corporate self-interest’) overlook that when corporate self-interest is hidden behind ‘the public good’, it’s harder to spot.
While I agree with you on the Government corruption/ Criminal violation of the U.S. Constitution aspect, I disagree with you on Moderna trying to persuade people to buy a produce which they knew was not only ineffective but was HARMFUL and Dangerous as their own studies pointed out.
We can see the new paradigm: Empower the Multinat corporations to do what it’s illegal for the government to do directly (not that that’s stopping them). Give them qualified immunity, high-tech surveillance tools, access to data bases and staff of ex-deep state operators to consummate the Corporate/Central government bedding ceremony.
Lest anyone forget: this is a company that proudly described its product as being like a computer “operating system” for the human body, on to which various “apps” could be downloaded. Make no mistake, this is a spiritual battle for the minds, bodies and souls of mankind.
Meanwhile Sir Novak – the poster boy of the pushback, is going from strength to strength.
Last night another record – most ATP Finals ever won. This on the back of 4 Grand Slam finals in 2023 (of which he won 3), the most Grand Slams ever won, the most ATP Masters titles ever won, finishes the year at No 1, has the record for the most weeks ever at number 1. On it goes, as does he.
He’s certainly the best hardcourt player. Fed the best grass player and of course Rafa the finest on clay. All the overall numbers dominant for Nole. No gaps in his game, clinical efficiency. Not the most loved, but the most wins.
Yes Novak can get wins on all surfaces. The best all round. He is only one behind Federer on grass slams…. Rafa almost, but not completely the one trick pony. I am certainly a fan of Novak’s, especially because he is giving the US and Aus the middle finger. Who knows where he would be if he hadn’t been banned over the last couple of years.
Yes. And I doubt he’ll become one of those professional athletes who collapse on the pitch/ court/ course with sudden out-of-the-blue heart attacks .
No amount of slick advertising or government pressure convinced me or my husband to submit to the jab. We got the virus last month (according to a home test kit, so it could have just as easily been a regular flu). It was largely three days of fatigue and chicken soup.
Everyone we know who has submitted got the virus post-jab, often more than once. Nearly all have had odd health issues, from tinnitus to strange body aches to period stoppages. They also seem to get sick every few months with sore throats, sinus infections, and coughs.
It seems to me these drug companies, with government help, devised a way to keep everyone profitably ill, since their shots don’t protect anyone from C19. Sort of like Planned Parenthood rebranding itself as a provider of the nonsensically-termed “gender-affirming care” now that its lucrative abortion money is drying up.
On your first two pars, exactly so. I resolutely refused their rubbish jabs and while I finally contracted a sniffle that tested as ‘Covid-19’ at the very tail end of the ‘pandemic’, it was no worse than a slight flu or average cold, and I have been 1 since. Like you, many I know who had the jabs – the terminally credulous, sadly – seem to keep catching Covid again and again, even as late as this autumn.
The heroes of anti vax resistance are confirmed ! No matter other flaws of conduct or ethics which might be used to deflect support – these heroes are creating very justifiable reaction and debate in the media, albeit fringe. The authors efforts provide valuable and tangible evidence of just how the corporatocrats go about their grisly business, which not only leads to higher profits, but also greater public control of discourse, public health, behaviour and ultimately genomic steering. Bravo !
The vaccine matter is only the beginning. The Forever Government and its outside-the-gate allies in media, academia, and entertainment have discovered the key to a problem they’ve been worried about – increasing public skepticism about the scope and independence of government. Hampered by the annoying First Amendment, they’ve turned to private entities to crush speech that challenges them.
And of course Moderna has a amenable partner in the U.S. government that certainly doesn’t want to risk a major scandal around its own false narratives, Biden’s deliberate vilification of 1/3 of its citizens, and the mis-handling of the Covid scare.
A more complete explanation of the financial fall of both Pfizer and Moderna is provided in the Wall Street Journal.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-covid-vaccine-windfall-turns-on-pfizer-and-moderna-pandemic-booster-73b2903a?st=9gi1h2sk1ybcvow&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The financial markets correct for the lies and respond appropriately by dumping the stock. By contrast, multiple governments, their agencies and the other authoritarians amongst us continue to try to defend the indefensible.
My word, investigative journalism.
Yes. A few pars of that is worth a tonne of opinion.
Shock horror! Big Pharma is in league with government and Big Tech to push their evil products on an unsuspecting public and suppress any dissenting views as disinformation. Is there really anyone left who hasn’t realised what’s been going on for the last two years?
This article is poorly written and seems to be claiming some sort of scoop for what has been common knowledge for most of that time.
I would say the value added by this article is they provide hard evidence of the conspiracy you describe and also the extent of ongoing collusion between government and corporations. If anything, the push to take the covid vaccines is increasing even as the lethality of the disease decreases.
…..and the lethality of the jabs becomes harder and harder to deny:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/revenge-plots-tuesday-november-7
Corporatism in action.
Are we really going to have to learn this the hard way again?
There are brave people out there who are fighting this giant dystopian anti science culture. There’s the likes of Prof Angus Dalgleish who told the useless Whitty and Valance that the Virus was created in the Lab. Although a practising Oncologist he has thirty years experience in Virology.
The Guy has created an HIV vaccine that attacks the core of the virus while the “Club” persist with their Mrna antigen based vaccines(Covid) attacking the envelope of the virus which actually acts as a decoy. He’s also developed a Cancer vaccine that successfully treats Skin Melanomas by firing up the immune T cell response. It also stops Covid and Flu in its tracks.
Well it did until his cancer patients started getting relapses. Yes you guessed it, they’d had their Covid Boosters and he found after two boosters the immune system just shut down something called antigen resistance enhancement whereby the immune system says I’ve had enough of this abuse and shuts down.
This month he is publishing a book with co Authors called The death of Science. But you won’t find it in any Bookshops because our dystopian Government has banned them from selling it.
The book is available from Bookshop.org, Waterstones, Abebooks and Amazon
Antigenic sin maybe the term. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28479213/ Autoimmune Sept 2017
Two perfectly healthy UG males died on the dehree.programme I teach on. Cobort size 126 students. Myocarditis.
“The most important thing for Moderna is that people keep having their jabs”
And that’s the whole problem.
Why are we allowing manufacturers of *vaccines* (particularly ones that have demonstrably maimed and even kill people) behave as though they were Nike or Pepsi?
Why are we allowing them to bribe corrupt politicians and doctors?
Why people believe “fact checking” sites with little to no accountability is beyond me! We have junior medical journalist critiquing experts like Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Batacharia etc. I really do want to see some of the criminals in Jail. And yes it is criminal to lie about a medical product. Throw the books at these depraved actors.
We need evidence that this network of professionals who jump on anyone who denigrates a pharma product are paid or compensated (or coerced) in some way.
Nothing in this article surprises me anymore. I would expect nothing less from Moderna. In the neo-liberal, economic order profit is everything, truth and ethics are nothing. Government has become a tool corporations use to maximize profit. Government by the corporation and for the corporation. People are mere consumers and Guinee pigs.
There is no politician on the horizon who is willing or capable of breaking their grip on power and return us to a regulated, fairer form of capitalism. I don’t see ethics making a comeback either, in our reality TV world. We are decadent and we are corrupt that is just the way it is. There is no revolution in sight, yet.
That being said, I just had my sixth shot (not Moderna, Pfizer). I have to live in the real world, and I have to weigh risk. I see less risk in being vaccinated than in not being vaccinated. I hate food companies too, but I have to eat.
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted.
I agree wholeheartedly with your first two paragraphs. Your vaccine preference is your own personal choice and has no bearing on your well-expressed views on the state-corporate axis (which is actually the definition of fascism).
You have to eat, you don’t have to eat shit.
Benjamin, see my comment above you. After two boosters your immune system shuts down. We still cannot talk about this on MSM. It seems our politicians are intellectually dim when it comes to science and are being led like sheep. In the UK our Government has set up the Counter Disinformation Unit, something out of 1984. BTW I’ve just had Covid and it was no more than a heavy cold. Remember Omicron only affects the upper airways unlike the other variants. Stay well topped up with Vitamin D3 which is more important than these Mrna vaccines
My immune system has not shutdown.