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Pfizer Executive: ‘Mutate’ COVID via ‘Directed Evolution’ for Company to Continue Profiting Off of Vaccines …

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https://www.projectveritas.com/news/...y-to-continue/
January 25, 2023
Pfizer Executive: ‘Mutate’ COVID via ‘Directed Evolution’ for Company to Continue Profiting Off of Vaccines … ‘COVID is Going to be a Cash Cow for Us’ … ‘That is Not What We Say to the Public’ … ‘People Won’t Like That’ … ‘Don’t Tell Anyone’
  • Jordon Trishton Walker, Pfizer Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations - mRNA Scientific Planner: “One of the things we're exploring is like, why don't we just mutate it [COVID] ourselves so we could create -- preemptively develop new vaccines, right? So, we have to do that. If we're gonna do that though, there's a risk of like, as you could imagine -- no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating f**king viruses.”
  • Walker: “Don’t tell anyone. Promise you won’t tell anyone. The way it [the experiment] would work is that we put the virus in monkeys, and we successively cause them to keep infecting each other, and we collect serial samples from them.”
  • Walker: “You have to be very controlled to make sure that this virus [COVID] that you mutate doesn’t create something that just goes everywhere. Which, I suspect, is the way that the virus started in Wuhan, to be honest. It makes no sense that this virus popped out of nowhere. It’s bullsh*t.”
  • Walker: “From what I’ve heard is they [Pfizer scientists] are optimizing it [COVID mutation process], but they’re going slow because everyone is very cautious -- obviously they don’t want to accelerate it too much. I think they are also just trying to do it as an exploratory thing because you obviously don’t want to advertise that you are figuring out future mutations.”
[NEW YORK – Jan. 25, 2023] Project Veritas released a new video today exposing a Pfizer executive, Jordon Trishton Walker, who claims that his company is exploring a way to “mutate” COVID via “Directed Evolution” to preempt the development of future vaccines...
 
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Company statement:

Pfizer Responds to Research Claims

Friday, January 27, 2023 - 08:00pm

New York, N.Y., January 27, 2023 – Allegations have recently been made related to gain of function and directed evolution research at Pfizer and the company would like to set the record straight.

In the ongoing development of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer has not conducted gain of function or directed evolution research. Working with collaborators, we have conducted research where the original SARS-CoV-2 virus has been used to express the spike protein from new variants of concern. This work is undertaken once a new variant of concern has been identified by public health authorities. This research provides a way for us to rapidly assess the ability of an existing vaccine to induce antibodies that neutralize a newly identified variant of concern. We then make this data available through peer reviewed scientific journals and use it as one of the steps to determine whether a vaccine update is required.

In addition, to meet U.S. and global regulatory requirements for our oral treatment, PAXLOVID™, Pfizer undertakes in vitro work (e.g., in a laboratory culture dish) to identify potential resistance mutations to nirmatrelvir, one of PAXLOVID’s two components. With a naturally evolving virus, it is important to routinely assess the activity of an antiviral. Most of this work is conducted using computer simulations or mutations of the main protease–a non-infectious part of the virus. In a limited number of cases when a full virus does not contain any known gain of function mutations, such virus may be engineered to enable the assessment of antiviral activity in cells. In addition, in vitro resistance selection experiments are undertaken in cells incubated with SARS-CoV-2 and nirmatrelvir in our secure Biosafety level 3 (BSL3) laboratory to assess whether the main protease can mutate to yield resistant strains of the virus. It is important to note that these studies are required by U.S. and global regulators for all antiviral products and are carried out by many companies and academic institutions in the U.S. and around the world.

Fact-based information rooted in sound science is vitally important to overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic and Pfizer remains committed to transparency and helping alleviate the devastating burden of this disease.
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https://www.pfizer.com/news/announcements/pfizer-responds-research-claims
 
Tucker Carlson has claimed on his FOX News show Tucker Carlson Tonight that there’s been “a near-total media blackout of this story.” But since there doesn’t seem to be any type of memo circulating to journalists telling them to not cover “this story,” let’s cover it now and see how much veritas it really has.






What’s “this story” that’s supposedly the subject of a media blackout according to Carlson? Well, Carlson has also tweeted the following about it: “Project Veritas just released an undercover video of a Pfizer executive bragging about how his company conducts Frankenstein science, manipulating COVID viruses for profit, and does it in secret, possibly in violation of federal law.”




Wow, a Pfizer exec bragging about “Frankenstein science?” That sounds like a monstrous revelation, doesn’t it? But before Carlson’s claim makes you sit bolt upright in your chair, keep in mind that this was Carlson who had said this. Yes, this was the Tucker Carlson whom John Oliver has called a “superspreader” of Covid-19 vaccine fears and doubts and a “scrunch-faced fear baboon,” as I covered on May 3, 2021, for Forbes. Now, to be fair, Carlson is not necessarily always “scrunch-faced.” He has also sported the “I’m concerned”, the “What’s you talking about, Willis”, and the “I really have to go to the bathroom” facial expressions. But is there any truth to what Carlson has been claiming about this Project Veritas video or is it actually a hot air baboon situation?

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...ho-is-jordon-trishton-walker/?sh=5672d6dd623d
 
I do not think this particular veritas recording adds any value. New drug discovery is complicated and involves all types of investigation. Animals are used, gain-of-function, all kinds of avenues are pursued. The pharma industry exists to make a profit. No surprise.

I am very skeptical of all data, all denials, all sales pitches, in short, everything. I look for a preponderance of the evidence from several sources.
 
I'm surprised you're supporting gain of function by Pfizer. I think they are denying doing it. Creation and serial passage of a Sars coronavirus with enhanced pathogenicity or transmission would be a high risk activity with BSL restrictions. You think this should be done with a virus that doesn't exist naturally? Use of primates is supposed to be restricted, too. There is a moral issue doing any animal research. It needs to be the only productive alternative in pursuing an important humanitarian goal - not just making money for stockholders.

I think this investigation brings up important questions.
 
The web is being scrubbed of articles about this. If this weren't an important issue, a doctor/scientist wouldn't be getting 'disappeared.'

https://web.archive.org/web/2023012...exploring-manipulating-COVID-make-potent.html

I found this snippet of his scrubbed Linkedin account still on Duckagogo:
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I think this particular Forbes article is more along the lines of corporate PR than journalism, from what I could even find doing a little research. O'Keefe has more in my last post.
I thought China was the only country that disappeared scientists when they know too much.
 
You completely misunderstood what I wrote. Do not characterize my words through your lens. I am saying why is anyone surprised. I would have thought many pharma are doing all types of research including gain-of-function. This revelation is not news. It is standard practice afaik.
 
GOF is a big deal. Pfizer denies that they are doing that with the Sars2 virus. If it were ho-hum, everyone is doing it, they wouldn't care about what their research director said.
 

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to set the record straight.
Friday, January 27, 2023 - 08:00pm
https://www.pfizer.com/news/announcements/pfizer-responds-research-claims

New York, N.Y., January 27, 2023 – Allegations have recently been made related to gain of function and directed evolution research at Pfizer
and the company would like to set the record straight.

They do not reference the ‘allegations’ they refer to.

Mutate a virus

Pre-emptively develop a vaccine for the new variant

Such a rumour may contain swearing and casual blasphemy

This could be being considered for the future

Could have come up at a meeting

One possible method could be ongoing deliberate reinfection of monkeys

Serial infections in the monkeys

Directed evolution

Analyse the viruses as the mutate.

Select the viruses that have desired properties, e.g. more immune escape, more infectivity, increases pathogenicity.

Reinfect more monkey with this now ‘improved’ virus

It may depend on how experiments work out (intimating they are currently going on)

Specific genetic manipulation to facilitate selective structural mutations to make a virus more potent may not have been admitted to
(This could produce an unpredictable virus)

There may have been talk about a revolving door with government officials

This could be good for the industry, but bad for everyone else in America

Back to Pfizer press release
In the ongoing development of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine,

Pfizer has not conducted gain of function or directed evolution research.

Working with collaborators, we have conducted research where the original SARS-CoV-2 virus has been used to express the spike protein from new variants of concern.
This work is undertaken once a new variant of concern has been identified by public health authorities.

This research provides a way for us to rapidly assess the ability of an existing vaccine to induce antibodies that neutralize a newly identified variant of concern.
In a limited number of cases when a full virus does not contain any known gain of function mutations, such virus may be engineered to enable the assessment of antiviral activity in cells.

Fact-based information rooted in sound science is vitally important to overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic and Pfizer remains committed to transparency and helping alleviate the devastating burden of this disease.

Shakespeare Act III, Scene II Hamlet,
Spoken by Queen Gertrude
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
 
The question becomes intent. Creating or extending a pandemic intentionally is an act of mass murder bordering on genocide. Anyone caught trying to do that should be criminally charged. To the extent that an imperfect vaccine might have caused the mutation of the virus, that's an accident. But intentionally mutating the pandemic virus to extend the pandemic is mass murder.

There are politicians in the US who want to hold hearings investigating various parts of the pandemic response, mostly in ways that will not be productive. This would be one of the few investigations that would actually be useful.
 
I have always assumed most pharma does gain-of-function in varying degrees as a routine discovery process. Denying it is politically expedient. It will be impossible to stop all gain-of-function in the world. It is like the arms agreements that everyone violates. They might agree to something and then do what they want anyway.
 
I agree there is probably covert GOF going on somewhere. I saw a paper about the Baric lab was doing 'directed evolution' with Dengue. Whatever it is called, they win, and we lose if something goes wrong.
 
https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public...izer-ceo-on-alleged-gain-of-function-research
Rubio Sends Letter to Pfizer CEO on Alleged Gain-of-Function Research

Jan 26 2023



An investigative report suggests that Pfizer may be conducting gain-of-function research, which it dubs “directed evolution” research to mutate the SARS-CoV-2 virus to create additional, more potent variants and vaccines to combat future variants. This type of research, similar to gain-of-function research, has long been controversial, and is suspected to be the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to Albert Bourla, the President and CEO of Pfizer, following the release of a video showing Pfizer’s director of research and development casually discussing the company’s manipulation of the SARS-Cov-2 virus for company profit.
  • “Whether it’s gain of function research, or selected structure mutations through directed evolution, as Mr. Walker claimed would occur, any effort to make a virus more transmittable and deadlier is careless and dangerous. Further, Mr. Walker stated that Pfizer is willing to engage in this dangerous research because COVID and its variants are ‘a cash cow’ for the company and regulators will go easy on their efforts because a significant percentage of government officials aim to work for Pfizer and other biopharmaceutical companies and do not want to compromise their future job prospects.”-- Senator Rubio
Want more information? The full text of the letter is below.

Dear Dr. Bourla:

I write in response to troubling reports on Pfizer’s intention to mutate the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID) virus through gain-of-function, or “directed evolution,” as detailed by Pfizer Director of Research and Development, Jordan Walker. As has been proven time and time again, attempts to mutate a virus, particularly one as potent as COVID, are dangerous. If the claims detailed in the video are true, Pfizer has put its desire for profit over the concern of national and global health and must hold itself accountable.

In a video released by Project Veritas on January 25, 2023, Mr. Walker laid out Pfizer’s plans to develop new vaccines for future variants of COVID by mutating the virus through directed evolution, a process that uses protein engineering to impose natural selection on a living organism or other biological materials, including viruses. Though he claimed the research is currently “exploratory,” he detailed how the research would proceed, such as how scientists would inject the mutated viruses into monkeys and collect serial samples from other monkeys who are infected.

Whether it’s gain of function research, or selected structure mutations through directed evolution, as Mr. Walker claimed would occur, any effort to make a virus more transmittable and deadlier is careless and dangerous. Further, Mr. Walker stated that Pfizer is willing to engage in this dangerous research because COVID and its variants are “a cash cow” for the company and regulators will go easy on their efforts because a significant percentage of government officials aim to work for Pfizer and other biopharmaceutical companies and do not want to compromise their future job prospects.

As a company that claims to “innovate every day to make the world a healthier place,” these claims from your leadership charged with research and development are alarming. As the American people deserve to know, I request that you provide the following information:

1. What efforts is Pfizer currently, or planning to, engage in to mutate the SARS-CoV-2 virus?

2. Does Pfizer intend to continue mutating the SARS-CoV-2 virus through gain-of-function, or directed evolution research, with the purpose of creating new vaccines before the variant is present in the greater population?

3. Has Pfizer engaged with federal officials engaged regarding their plans to oversee this research? Please provide the names and agencies for these individuals.

4. What steps has Pfizer taken to ensure the mutated virus does not leak from the laboratory and infect the greater population?

5. Has Pfizer engaged with other biopharmaceutical companies to collaborate on this research effort? Please list the entities that you have been in contact with.

6. Will you commit to halting any future research that mutates the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine as substantial evidence has indicated that similar dangerous research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology very likely led to the initial emergence and global spread of the virus?

As a leader in global public health and development of the COVID vaccine, with American taxpayer dollars, it is critical that Pfizer is accountable for their actions and be transparent with the public on the substance and intent of their research.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. I look forward to your prompt response.
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