mRNA: There will be prizes, and fraud aplenty

The drug industry is set to earn trillions of dollars in new revenues from mRNA technology—and safety, and the truth, won’t get in the way, says Bryan Hubbard

Big Pharma has seen the future, and it’s called mRNA. The technology—which was first rolled out on a global scale to counter the Covid-19 virus—will be used to develop new vaccines and to combat a range of diseases, including cancer.

It’s been recognized by drug regulators as a new class of drug, and the rewards will be staggering, generating revenues that no other industry has ever achieved. Not that the drugs industry is struggling; globally it generates around $1.7 trillion every year, a phenomenal sum that has accelerated with the launch of weight-loss drugs.

But these figures will be dwarfed by the revenues that mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) technology will attract. Oliver Watson at Imperial College London has estimated that mRNA cancer vaccines alone could generate anything from $5 trillion upward, and with 11 versions producing promising results in early-stage trials, they could top $38 trillion over a few years. To put that into perspective, the tax revenues collected by governments in the developed world total around $20 trillion a year.

Last summer’s decision by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to end around $500 billion of funding for 22 trials of mRNA technology will be merely a small bump in the road as other countries ramp up research programs. But the HHS’s reasons are salutary: In a statement it announced that, according to the data, “these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like Covid and flu.”

The observation has been made by others, too. Critics have pointed out that mRNA vaccines aren’t vaccines in the usual sense because they provide the instructions to produce parts of a virus within our own cells, whereas conventional vaccines expose the immune system to the whole virus. These “vaccines” also don’t prevent infection or spread, which became apparent during the Covid pandemic.

Safety last

But it’s been the safety of mRNA that has raised the most concerns. The Health Service Executive, Ireland’s health agency, has estimated one in every 10,000 people who get a Covid shot suffer a serious adverse reaction, including myocarditis and pericarditis. These two types of heart tissue inflammation have been reported mostly in young men.¹

There have also been cases of thrombosis, heart attack and stroke, and arrythmia (irregular heartbeat), which could be the results of strange microclots that have been detected in the blood after vaccination.² The clots form into sticky webs known as neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) and have also been noted by pathologists during autopsies of people who died following a Covid infection.

Excess NET formation can cause serious—and even fatal—inflammatory and clotting problems, including severe infections, autoimmune diseases, cancer, diabetes and arthritis. A cluster of microclots can also block tiny blood vessels and reduce oxygen flow, researchers from Stellenbosch University in South Africa have noted.³

Overall, it appears the mRNA technology can cause “a myriad of cellular and molecular problems,” and the full consequences of that manipulation are being underestimated, said Karina Whitehouse at the Autonomous University of Querétaro in Mexico.⁴

Hide the facts

But with such glittering prizes within reach, drug companies have been committing obfuscation and even fraud in their research to get their mRNA offerings over the line. Inconvenient data has gone missing, deaths have gone unreported and whole cohorts who didn’t respond to the vaccine or unfortunately died have disappeared.

The most egregious example happened last autumn when Pfizer published data from mRNA flu jab trials in phase 3—the stage before full approval—and gave itself a gold star. In the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Pfizer researchers tested their mRNA offering on around 18,000 healthy adults aged 18–64, half of whom were given the conventional flu shot.

They reported that the mRNA jab delivered “statistically superior efficacy” compared to the seasonal flu shot and demonstrated an “acceptable safety profile.” Yes, 16 participants in the published study died during the trial, but their deaths were nothing to do with either vaccine, the researchers said.⁵

The whole study—its analysis, conclusions and structure—was dismantled by scientists and other research analysts within days after publication.

The first red flag was the age groups selected for the study: The over-65s, the group most affected by flu, had been omitted. But they were in the official data that Pfizer delivered to the US National Library of Medicine’s Clinical Trials database, and they represented more than 60 percent of the group given Pfizer’s mRNA flu jab, as would be expected for any flu shot.⁶

Here come the old

With the over-65s back in the frame, the results changed, and the supposed safety of the jab, seen in younger people, disappeared. Healthy older participants—free of any acute or chronic disease—who had the mRNA jab were at greater risk of serious adverse reactions, including kidney failure and acute respiratory problems.

Compared to those who had the seasonal jab, those given the mRNA version had a 7 percent greater risk of death and almost twice as many suffered non-serious adverse reactions. The mRNA group also had a 185 percent greater risk of acute respiratory failure that could be fatal. Overall, 49 of the older people given the mRNA shot died, compared to 46 who had the seasonal jab.

The mRNA jab not only had a higher risk profile but was also less effective: Those who received it were around 6 percent more likely to get the flu.

The manufacturers aren’t the only ones keeping deaths from mRNA jabs under wraps. They are aided by our health guardians. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has refused to publish the number of deaths and has released the data privately only to the vaccine manufacturers.

In a letter responding to the pressure group UsForThem, the UKHSA said that publishing the data “could lead to misinformation” that would “have an adverse impact on vaccine uptake” by the public. It also said that publishing the data risked damaging the well-being and mental health of the families and friends of people who died. The Information Commissioner, which oversees freedom-of-information requests, has also ruled in the UKHSA’s favor, backing its refusal to publish the data.⁷

But when there’s the chance to make astonishing sums that have never been seen before, the truth—and the safety of the public—take a back seat.

What’s mRNA?

Messenger RNA (mRNA) is a molecule that carries genetic instructions from DNA in a cell’s nucleus to the ribosomes, cellular factories made up of RNA (a molecule that copies DNA) and proteins. Lab-created mRNA is clever stuff that’s been developed since the 1960s.

“Vaccines” based on mRNA provide the transcripts for our cells to make viral proteins that trigger the immune system to fight anything from viruses to flu and cancer. For example, the Covid mRNA vaccines instructed our cells to make the Covid spike protein.

But it’s been a rocky road. Delivering the instructions to the cells has been a hurdle, and preserving the message long enough for the ribosomes to respond has been another problem. The first mRNA vaccines were rolled out in 2015 to counter an Ebola outbreak in Africa, although mRNA vaccines to counter cancer have been in development since the 1990s.

Although the Covid-19 pandemic was the first opportunity to roll out the technology en masse, the vaccines only ever had restricted authorization. Nonetheless, the pioneers, biochemist Katalin Kariko and physician Drew Weissman, were awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their efforts.

Not in front of the children

The Covid vaccines probably killed more children than they saved—and the deaths were unnecessary because the young were never at risk from the virus, one of America’s leading health officials has admitted.

In a memo leaked to the press, the official said that at least 10 children are known to have died as a direct response to the Covid vaccine after they developed myocarditis, anaphylaxis and other acute cardiac conditions related to mRNA vaccines.

“This is a profound revelation. For the first time, the US FDA will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children. Healthy young children who faced tremendously low risk of death were coerced, at the behest of the Biden administration, via school and work mandates, to receive a vaccine that could result in death,” said Vinay Prasad, chief medical and scientific officer and director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in a memo to staff.

“The team has performed an initial analysis of 96 deaths between 2021 and 2024, and concludes that no fewer than 10 are related. If anything, this represents conservative coding, where vaccines are exculpated rather than indicted in cases of ambiguity. The real number is higher,” he said.¹

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