In my article last week on the partial facial paralysis from which Özlem Türeci, the co-creator of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine, clearly suffers, I noted that, although the disability is a known adverse reaction to the drug, Türeci was suffering from it, at least to some extent, before the product’s rollout. But she does not appear to have been suffering from it as a young woman in the 1990s.
Juxtaposing some of the visual materials cited in my article, as an intrepid X-user has done, makes the difference extremely obvious.
In the article, I wondered whether her disorder could somehow be connected to the experimental work on mRNA drugs which she had been conducting for more than a decade prior to Covid. BioNTech, the company which she founded with her husband Ugur Sahin in 2008, had been working on the development of mRNA-based cancer therapies.
Could she have even perhaps injected an earlier mRNA construct into herself for experimental purposes? It seems incredible, unthinkable: the stuff of science fiction not of real science.
But in fact the Chief Scientific Officer of BioNTech’s main rival, the ‘other’ German mRNA company CureVac, did precisely that!
Thus in his recent history of synthetic mRNA vaccines in the European Journal of Immunology, Steve Pascolo notes that in 2003, when he was the CSO of CureVac, he became “the first person to be injected with synthetic mRNA”, in order to test “the safety and efficacy of ivt mRNA in humans”. See the below excerpt.
The resultant scientific paper on the experiment was published in the journal Gene Therapy in 2007, one year before the founding of BioNTech. It is available here. CureVac was founded in 2000 for the purpose of developing mRNA-based cancer therapies, which is exactly what Sahin and Türeci were trying to do.
In a LinkedIn post celebrating his second dose of the BioNTech-Pfizer COVD-19 vaccine, Pascolo notes that he was in fact injected not once, but three times with synthetic mRNA for experimental purposes.
With BioNTech in a position of having to play catch-up with the rival mRNA cancer-therapy company, which was founded eight years earlier, could Türeci have been inspired by Pascolo’s example to likewise inject herself with one of her company’s mRNA constructs, but with less cheerful results?
One thing is certain: if this is the case, Türeci would not willingly tell us. It is not the job of the Chief Medical Officer of a publicly-listed pharmaceutical company to destroy shareholder value. And, in any case, both Türeci and her husband themselves form part of BioNTech’s main ownership group, as can be seen in the table from BioNTech’s latest annual report to the SEC below.
913,247 shares of BioNTech are currently worth nearly $100 million. Sahin’s 42,262,039 shares are worth around $4.5 billion.
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I heartily approve of the choice of picture. All covidiots should forever more be pictured wearing masks.
They should be obliged by law to wear the face nappies until their dying day. And thereafter, in their coffins.
Indeed. Why isn’t Susan Michie still wearing one, to protect us? Selfish woman!
Indeed. It was what she wanted – for herself and everyone. She’s a hypocrite, too. I imagine she still wants it, but nowadays only for everyone else. She is one of the more equal animals.
Kids, the animals bit is a reference to the story 1984, by George Orwell. If you want to read it, make sure you do not download any ebook. Get a proper book, published before March 2020. Ask me why.
We’ll need Sol Roth eventually!
Oh go on then, why?
(I’m guessing they have taken out some hurty words).
Taken out words. And replaced many sections to reverse the message. I would point you to one ebook on Amazon I noticed in 2022, but it has since disappeared.
‘Animal Farm’, surely, not ‘1984’.
Yes, Brian. Apologies for posting the same after you.
Pedant’s Corner:
“All Animals Are Equal but Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others”.
George Orwell, Animal Farm.
And the coffins should be burnt.
“Why Have No Fellows of the Royal Society Resigned Over Anthony Fauci?”
Because they’re all agenda driven elitest A-holes!
Talking of elitist A-holes this story about Professor Stephen Curry is about his half-arsed efforts showing him to be a complete arse and of his ‘scientific’ mate’s inability to tell the difference between science and the inane ramblings of an unemployed former barman and administrator and internet troll. Read this as the past comes back to haunt Curry:
Professor Stephen Curry – “Half-Arsed” Dumbing Down of Science Posted on August 2, 2010 by ChildHealthSafety
The modern “dumbing down” of British science is well demonstrated by the inept efforts of Professor Stephen Curry on his Nature “science” journal’s blog. Curry was incensed by a well written UK Guardian newspaper article by professional journalist Simon Jenkins and responded childishly with abuse. Worse still Curry’s efforts were defended in The Guardian by physicist and Vice Dean Professor Jon Butterworth of London University ……..
Read on for more
Hilariously two of the particularly ridiculous aspects of the article quoted above about Curry and Jon Butterworth is Curry replied [see it here and weep] and Butterworth excruciatingly embarrassingly cannot tell the difference between an accredited established qualified British university scientific expert and an internet troll with no qualifications:
“It seems no one has had the heart to tell Butterworth that a “scientist” blogger he quoted in his Guardian piece [as an example of the entire scientific world and in defence of his pal Professor Stephen Curry] is in fact none other than the former unemployed barman and administrator and well known internet “troll” James Cole [aka jdc 325 and 325 jdc].”
So much for the ivory towers of Imperial College and the ability of these two jokers to tell the difference between science and nonsense.
Perhaps the thousands of the Royal Society’s contemporary Professors, Sirs, Dames and Professor Sirs need to mug up on the history of their precious Society, as delineated on the Society’s website – the world’s first national scientific society, founded in 1662 by pioneers of experimental physical sciences, that included Newton, Boyle and Hooke, under the inaugural presidency of Sir Christopher Wren.
Motto – Nullius in Verba – “Take nobody’s word for it” – “an expression of the determination of Fellows to withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment...”
…Which pretty much rules out the unverifiable voodoo-science prosecuted by Mann and Fauci.
As Professor Groucho Marx always used to say, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member!”
It’s so sad that the RS is being brought into disrepute by these people, perhaps those who think science is political should be the first to be kicked out before the RS loses all credibility.
But fear not my friends, there is light at the end of the tunnel, I now call it “The reawakening”. People like Dr Iain McGilchrist are fighting a rear guard action and I urge all readers here to check him out. Perhaps those who are interested should check him out for suitability and the first stop should be…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ6C4KQhdLQ
When he talks about left he is not being political. Perhaps the DS could invite him to pen an article. But one of his books has been described “It’s very simple: this is one of the most important books ever published. And, yes, I do mean ever…”.
But there are many others who are “rebelling”, David Starkey, Jordan Peterson and more.
It’s just a modern example of a ‘witch hunt’… but of course there are no witches just people carrying grudges.
The location of the witch hunt in the Royal Society is just a matter of convenience.
Wonderful video thank you for the link, the metric system, civil law, the EU, all prov the validity of his thesis.
As Douglas Adams knew and we all know, politics is far too important to be left to people who really want to be in charge. The great weakness of modern democracy in the age of 24 hour media cycle.
Grouch Marx would not join any society that would have him as a member. I would not join any society that has Mann or Fauci as members given that they are guilty of falsification and fabrication. Nor anyone stupid enough to quote Mann’s Hookey Stick as evidence given how that was shredded years ago as complete crap existing only to deny the existence of the Medieval Warm Period.
Well…
From abc News
White House changes COVID.gov web page to page supporting lab leak theory
The five pieces of evidence put forth by the White House for the theory include the following assertions: that the “virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature,” that data shows all cases “stem from a single introduction into humans,” that “Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab,” that researchers at that research lab “were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019,” and that “if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced.“
The page includes claims that government officials, including former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, helped edit and then amplify a research paper on the origins of COVID-19 published in 2020 that supported natural origin theory.
The page includes claims that government officials, including former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, helped edit and then amplify a research paper on the origins of COVID-19 published in 2020 that supported natural origin theory.