German biologist Jürgen O. Kirchner recently made headlines, including here on the Daily Sceptic, for having submitted five German batches of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine for analysis and discovering massive levels of DNA contamination. Kirchner already raised the alarm about the risk of DNA contamination of the vaccine last year in his book Die mRNA Maschine (The mRNA Machine), which he published under the pen-name David O. Fischer.
The German regulatory agency, the Paul Ehrlich Institute, has played a key role in the regulatory history of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine, being the first agency to approve a phase 1 clinical trial of the product and still serving as the official control authority for batch release of the vaccine not only in Germany but throughout the European Union.
In the below translated excerpt from his book, Jürgen O. Kirchner shows that the Paul Ehrlich Institute narrowly focused on the mRNA ‘platform’ as the way-out of the COVID-19 pandemic within just weeks of the first reported case in Germany and then, shortly thereafter, focused even more narrowly on the German company BioNTech’s mRNA vaccine. Asking why it did so when other proven and non-genetic options were available, Kirchner suggests that the answer may lie in Germany’s economically-motivated aspirations to become the ‘vaccine hub of the world’.
Robert Kogon
Day 1 of the Corona pandemic in Germany was January 27th 2020. This was the day on which the first COVID-19 case was reported. Just three months later, on April 27th 2020, the Science Media Centre Germany held an event for the press on mRNA vaccines entitled ‘RNA vaccines: The fastest route to vaccine protection against SARS-CoV-2?’ This was likely the starting shot signalling German media to pay particular attention to mRNA vaccines, since the mRNA vaccine of BioNTech was presented as virtually the ideal solution to the Corona problem at the event.
The Science Media Centre is a project of the Klaus Tschira Foundation and prepares topical information for science journalists. The invited experts were Uğur Şahin, the CEO of the mRNA vaccine manufacturer BioNTech, Klaus Cichutek, the President of the Paul Ehrlich Institute – the German regulatory agency – and Mariola Fotin-Mleczek, head of the Epidemiology Department of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research.
On March 6th 2020, the Science Media Centre had already held a prior event for the press on the subject ‘A vaccine against the novel coronavirus: What hurdles still need to be gotten over?’ One could have expected that all relevant options for vaccines against COVID-19 would be compared and discussed here. But this did not come to pass. Instead, the President of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, Klaus Cichutek already stressed at this early date that gene-based vaccines were the great hopes for developing vaccines against SARS-CoV-2: “We also hope that certain platforms like DNA, RNA platforms, maybe also vector platforms in a certain way, are particularly well-suited to being reoriented now.” And he continued: “Yes, so the question is: What time savings could be achieved thanks to a universal vaccine platform? …The time savings thanks to a vaccine platform which has been authorised in general would of course be enormous.”
The remarks are astonishing, since there were already vaccine platforms which were very successful. The gene-free approaches, which reliably trigger a human immune response based on inactivated viruses or protein vaccines using recombinant pathogen proteins are particularly worthy of mention. Both approaches have been used for decades against the flu and hepatitis B, for example, and were recently also quickly and very successfully adapted to SARS-CoV-2 in other parts of the world.
Germany, however, focused on the mRNA-based genetic vaccine of BioNTech. In this spirit, at the March 6th 2020 Science Media Centre event, Klaus Cichutek said:
But if we now further define this in terms of the RNA platform for vaccines. If we really managed to pull an RNA-based vaccine product against SARS-CoV-2 through to authorisation, with the required care, sensibly collecting and also testing the data, then we have a good basis for this platform, and this would be precisely the RNA [platform] with the related lipophilic or liposomal nanoparticles, which could be the basis for the next vaccine using a different virus antigen gene.
Klaus Cichutek’s verbal contributions to the Science Media Centre events make clear that the Paul Ehrlich Institute and its President were largely responsible, already very early on, for the German focus on gene-based vaccines.
But there is a crucial catch to talk of an authorised vaccine platform. Klaus Cichutek had this to say about it: “We always talk about the authorisation of a particular vaccine product.” In practice, this means that the active substance is only one of a whole series of components which are covered by the authorisation. These include all the excipients and even the packaging and the package insert. Regardless of the underlying approach or what is referred to as the vaccine platform, every new vaccine has thus to be authorised as an independent medicinal product. And this is always done on the precondition of new clinical studies or at least comparative animal studies. The applicable legislation does not provide for a ‘platform authorisation’ and there cannot be such an authorisation, since it would mean that changes had to be accepted by regulators without independent testing of their influence on efficacy and safety. The law does not allow this for good reason.
If the change in a vaccine is a matter of replacing the original pathogen with a newer mutation, this, however, can happen relatively quickly. This is the case for flu vaccines almost every year. But the example of flu vaccines shows in turn that the proven gene-free types of vaccines already have the desired flexibility. The Paul Ehrlich Institute knows these relationships better than any other institution in Germany. The Paul Ehrlich Institute even has its own ‘Product Development Unit’, which assists pharmaceutical companies in developing vaccines and setting up production facilities. But services of this kind can only be provided if there is profound knowhow. The latter, however, can only relate to experience with proven vaccines, including vaccines based on inactivated viruses or recombinant proteins, but not to such new approaches as mRNA vaccines for mass vaccination, since there had hardly been any experience with these – and even less for public agencies which were not themselves involved in developing the products.
So why, in this situation, was the Paul Ehrlich Institute’s knowledge of proven vaccines, such as those based on inactivated viruses or viral proteins, not used quickly to produce gene-free vaccines in Germany too?
The answer may lie in the economically-motivated dream of ‘Germany as vaccine hub for the world’, which was being dreamt by German politicians and institutions in the context of the Corona pandemic. (See, for instance, the February 25th 2021 article in the Wiener Zeitung titled ‘Corona Vaccine: How Germany Wants to Become Vaccine Hub’.)
After all, the future, as no one doubts anymore, will bring more pandemics and with them gigantic new markets. A German ‘vaccine hub’ cannot be achieved using proven vaccine approaches, however, because the pole position in this regard is already occupied by India, which as the ‘pharmacy of the world’ produces and markets 60% of all vaccines.
So, the German vaccine dream can only continue to be dreamed on the basis of a new patented vaccine approach. The approaches of the firms BioNTech and CureVac using mRNA technology thus form the basis for the ultimately economically-motivated dream of the ‘vaccine hub Germany’.
Excerpted and translated from David O. Fischer, Die mRNA Maschine ©Jürgen O. Kirchner. This excerpt may not be reproduced or reprinted without the express written consent of the author. Translated by Robert Kogon.
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Let’s hope this book gets a full translation soon. Thanks for that.
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Outstanding. Many thanks for that.
YW
Bookmarked. Thanks Mogs
Pandemics?
One could ask the same question about the term “vaccine”. I think it used to have a different definition years ago.
Well it would appear that the words ”safe” and ”effective” have also both been redefined to meet Clown World standards. 1,291 side effects just for Pfizer remember. How can that possibly be anybody’s definition of a safe product that is still being promoted, and to pregnant women, to boot!?
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/sahpra-pfizer-covid-19-vaccines-safe-to-use-1291-side-effects-report-latest-news-updates/
Excellent article.
Thank you.
More proof, if proof were needed, that not only is the state no good at running a health service, it is no good at regulation either.
What to do?
We have a perfectly good second parliamentary chamber specifically designed to review legislation. There is no reason why it should not perform a light touch regulatory role as well.
The House of Lords should be reduced in size by 50% by the simple expedient of allowing them to keep their titles but themselves elect ‘working peers’ of a significantly reduced number.
These, of relevant experience, organised by their peers into small specific committees, can then regulate the army of regulators of varying effectiveness that we currently have and act as ‘consultants’ to the particular government ministers.
The prior links that most of this reduced number of peers would have to political parties and government agencies (and the credibility, experience, of those peers) should prove useful.
Well Phil Harper has written an open letter to the MHRA regarding the DNA contamination findings. I’d imagine people have written to all regulators in various countries by now as this puts the ball well and truly in their court because it’s forcing them into a corner. It remains to be seen what the MHRA will say but given the recent substack I shared by Maryanne Demasi, where she put these research findings to the FDA, they just responded with some evasive garbage, completely ignoring her initial questions. Remember, there was no DNA contamination when they ran the clinical trial, only when they had to change the process in order to massively upscale production for the global population.
”Given the gravity and implications of these findings, I urge the MHRA to undertake a comprehensive review of these reports and conduct independent verifications.
Can you confirm that the MHRA is immediately looking to confirm or rule out these findings? Have any tests of this kind been done subsequent to the approval of these products? Can you please share any information you have on this matter.
Your prompt attention and actions in this matter would be greatly appreciated.”
https://philharper.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-the-mhra?post_id=137415091&r=oyapz
There must be some regulators in this country doing a good job but it is very hard to come up with one: ofcom, water, police, nhs, regulators all shockingly bad.
The house of lords, given how unpopular it is as a direct consequence of its support for covid measures, nut zero, desperately needs to find a new usefulness.
House of commons committees generally lack the required level of experience. That experience is to be found within the h of l. This being politics, there are plenty of reasons why the lords hasn’t been made more useful. That must change or get rid of the whole outfit completely and start again from scratch (never going to happen).
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/mrna-vaccines-must-be-banned-once-and-for-all/
Angus Dalgleish at TCW – this article is dynamite.
“they are not vaccines at all but Genetically Modified Organisms that should have been subject to totally different regulatory conditions and certainly not be classed as vaccines. This has been recognised by the Australian version of the FDA, the TGA, which has changed the picture so much that the Premier of Victoria Dan Andrews, who was the greatest proponent of the vaccine and of its mandatory use, has resigned – though at the time of writing the vaccine has not been mentioned as the reason for his resignation. (Paula Jardine reported in these pages in December 2021 on this regulatory sleight of hand in granting vaccine Emergency Use Authorisations for what were gene therapies.)
To advise booster vaccines, as is the current case, is no more and no less than medical incompetence; to continue to do so with the above information is medical negligence which can carry a custodial sentence.
No ifs or buts any longer. All mRNA vaccines must be halted and banned now.”
Must be ….. but won’t. Too much money to be made.
If you had any n ous you would’ve known about the provenance of these injections even without data. The whole idea is a priori evil and represents an absence of understanding of the deep nature of the blood. If you want to learn about this then you will have to pursue the teaching. The scientists don’t know they have been programmed like the rest of us since 1850 to think a certain way and now we see the bitter results. It is good that we have though because this will act as a fillip to self-correction even if it seems a bit brutal. It is the best possible way and the best of all possible worlds. You have to keep that faith.