A Personal Note to Readers

Where this Substack is Headed

When Mathew at Rounding the Earth opened with a salacious headline about another “vaccine manufacturer” coming “out of the closet” I have to admit that my eyes opened wide, then I chuckled. I have never worked for a large pharmaceutical company. I am not a Pfizer clinical trial whistleblower like Brook Jackson, nor is my work even related to covid vaccines. It’s much simpler than that.

I established a small biotech company in order to resurrect the manufacture of a 130 year old therapeutic fever vaccine in the public domain (Coley’s toxins). Coley’s toxins is a mixed bacterial vaccine that has been demonstrated in scores of scientific papers, as well as several small clinical trials 10+ years old, to offer a complete and durable immune response against cancer for many people.

My adventures with Coley’s toxins will comprise future posts, but the short story is this. I wasn’t in business long before I was shut down by Medsafe, New Zealand’s medicines regulatory agency, in a CYA box-ticking exercise. My laboratory was never cited, let alone visited, for safety concerns.

Today, not only do we have to contend with the scientific groupthink and regulatory capture that has been going on for decades, but we also have to deal with “born again hard” mid-level bureaucrats with too much discretionary power.

We have covid to thank for at least making this problem nearly impossible to ignore.

Several years prior, Pfizer was approached to fund GMP production for a clinical trial studying a particular formulation of this vaccine. In a phone call, one of the executives at the company expressed understanding of what was being proposed, and had no doubt that a clinical trial with the vaccine would induce the regression of cancer. 

This individual then unambiguously communicated that Pfizer was not interested in funding it, because it was only of interest from the patient’s perspective. 

Evil is banal. 

Much of what we’re seeing now are the inevitable prisoner’s dilemmas that exist as a result of erecting bureaucracies and intellectual property laws that “we” have set up to allegedly protect us. 

This is how doctors and scientists eventually reach a crossroads where we find that, just like those above us in the bureaucratic hierarchy, it can be an easier path to become villains and deny life-saving care because of the guns pointed at our heads.

It takes resources and strength — mental, financial, etc. — to come to grips with and fight the nature of what we’re up against. It’s easier for many to become fatalists and give up altogether.

This simple fact is one reason why the pile of dead bodies is much larger than it needed to be, not just in the last two years, but year upon year for many decades prior. 

It’s not about your health.

In reality, it never has been. 

All I want to say is that they don’t really care about us. 

A dear friend and colleague recently sent me brilliant insight via email.

At the top of every hierarchy is a flimflam artist; there are no good guys.

Hierarchies recruit the wrong types, regardless of their institutional intent... Hierarchy climbers are truly skilled at attaining upward mobility, but they are mostly unqualified to lead should they reach the peak.

Hierarchies are criminogenic. This is easiest to see in televangelism, where the original intent was clearly to grift, and usurpers of the pulpit are even more boldfaced about it. Climbers are willing to cheat to move up. The biggest cheat rises to the top.

This is the festering stew of entropic chaos in which we are left to pursue our honest labors.

So, get rid of Anthony Fauci and nothing will happen. He might even be replaced by someone worse.

The system itself is the problem. It’s becoming more and more obvious to more and more people that it’s ripe for disruption and dare I say, toppling altogether. Its true nature is being revealed, and that means that we may have a real opportunity to change things once a critical mass of people have awoken.

So if I go through periods of protracted silence as I have already done on this Substack, it’s because I want to produce something that is compelling and will contribute to meaningful change. Many are already doing this and it’s an important division of labor to not squander my energies in replicating what they are producing.

Some of the more abstract things I have written have an overarching theme even if it’s not yet obvious. My Modern Ignorance series is building toward something specific, so I’ll finish with a bold statement.

In this series, I intend to tell the tale of how the most successful cancer treatment of all time was stonewalled by personal and institutional power struggles and bureaucratic snafus until it faded into obscurity. 

Thank you for your patience, and for subscribing to and interacting with my posts.

All I want to say is that they don’t really care about us.

All I want to say is that they don’t really care about us.

All I want to say is that they don’t really care about us.

All I want to say is that WE. WILL. ROCK YOU.