{"id":224158,"date":"2021-01-04T08:41:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T08:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=224158"},"modified":"2021-01-06T05:01:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T05:01:02","slug":"developers-of-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-tied-to-uk-eugenics-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=224158","title":{"rendered":"Developers of Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Tied to UK Eugenics Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whitney Webb and Jeremy Loffredo \u2013 Patreon Jan 3, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The developers of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine have previously undisclosed ties to the re-named British Eugenics Society as well as other Eugenics-linked institutions like the Wellcome Trust.<\/p>\n

On April 30th<\/a>, AstraZeneca and Oxford University announced a \u201clandmark agreement\u201d for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. The <\/a>agreement<\/a> involves AstraZeneca overseeing aspects of the development as well as manufacturing and distribution while the Oxford side, via the Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group, researched and developed the vaccine. Less than a month after this agreement was reached, the Oxford-AstraZeneca partnership was awarded a contract from the US government as part of Operation Warp Speed, the public-private COVID-19 vaccination effort dominated by the US military and US intelligence.<\/p>\n

Though the partnership was announced in April, Oxford\u2019s Jenner Institute had already begun developing the COVID-19 vaccine months before, in mid-January<\/a>. According to a recent BBC report<\/a>, it was in January that the Jenner Institute first became aware of how serious the pandemic would soon become, when Professor Andrew Pollard<\/a>, who works for both the Jenner Institute and heads the Oxford Vaccine Group, \u201cshared a taxi with a modeler who worked for the UK\u2019s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\u201d During the taxi ride, \u201cthe scientist told him data suggested there was going to be a pandemic not unlike the 1918 flu.\u201d Due to this sole encounter, we are told, the Jenner Institute then began to pour millions into the early development of a vaccine for COVID-19 well before the scope of the crisis was clear.<\/p>\n

For much of 2020, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was treated as an early front-runner, though its lead would later be marred by scandals related to its clinical trials, including the death of participants, sudden trial pauses, the use of a problematic \u201cplacebo\u201d with its own host of side effects and the \u201cunintentional\u201d mis-dosing of some participants that skewed its self-reported efficacy rate.<\/p>\n

The significant issues<\/a> that emerged during trials have provoked little concern from the vaccine\u2019s two lead developers, despite critical attention from even mainstream media of its complications. The lead developer of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, Adrian Hill, told NBC<\/em> on December 9th that the experimental vaccine should be approved and distributed to the public before the conclusion of the safety trials, saying,\u201dto wait for the end of the trial would be the middle of next year. That\u2019s too late, this vaccine is effective, available at large scale and easily deployed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarah Gilbert, the other lead researcher on the vaccine, seemed to believe that pre-mature safety approval was likely, telling the BBC<\/em><\/a> on December 13 that the chances of rolling out the vaccine by the end of the year are \u201cpretty high.\u201d Now, the UK is expected to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine shortly after Christmas<\/a>, with India also set to approve <\/a>the vaccine next week.<\/p>\n

While the controversies surrounding the vaccine\u2019s trials did ultimately undermine its previous frontrunner status, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine remains heavily promoted as the vaccine of choice for the developing world, as it is cheaper and has much less complicated storage requirement than its main competitors, Pfizer and Moderna.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Dr. Richard Horton, the editor-in-chief of the Lancet<\/em> medical journal, told <\/a>CNBC<\/em><\/a> that \u201cThe Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is the vaccine right now that is going to be able to immunize the planet more effectively, more rapidly than any other vaccine we have\u201d in large part because it is a \u201cvaccine that can get to lower middle-income countries.\u201d CNBC<\/em> also quoted Andrew Baum, global head of health care for Citi Group, as saying that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine \u201cis really the only vaccine that is going to suppress or even eradicate SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in the many millions of individuals in the developing world.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to longstanding claims that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will be the vaccine of choice for the developing world, this vaccine candidate has also been treated by several outlets in the mainstream and even independent media<\/a> as \u201cgood for people, bad for profits\u201d due to the partnership\u2019s \u201cexplicit intention of supplying [the vaccine] around the world on a not-for-profit basis, meaning that the poorest nations on the planet will not have to worry about being shut out of a cure due to lack of funds.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, investigation into the vaccine\u2019s developers and the realities of their \u201cno-profit pledge\u201d reveals a very different story than that which has been spun for most of the year by corporate press releases, experts and academics tied to the vaccine and the mainstream press.<\/p>\n

For instance, mainstream media has had little, if anything, to say about the role of the vaccine developers\u2019 private company \u2013 Vaccitech \u2013 in the Oxford-AstraZeneca partnership, a company whose main investors include former top Deutsche Bank executives, Silicon Valley behemoth Google and the UK government. All of them stand to profit from the vaccine alongside the vaccine\u2019s two developers, Adrian Hill and Sarah Gilbert, who retain an estimated 10% stake in the company. Another overlooked point is the plan to dramatically alter the current sales model for the vaccine following the initial wave of its administration, which would see profits soar, especially if the now obvious push to make COVID-19 vaccination an annual affair for the foreseeable future is made reality.<\/p>\n

Yet, arguably most troubling of all is the direct link of the vaccine\u2019s lead developers to the Wellcome Trust and, in the case of Adrian Hill, the Galton Institute, two groups with longstanding ties to the UK Eugenics movement. The latter organization, named for the \u201cfather of eugenics\u201d Francis Galton, is the re-named UK Eugenics Society, a group notorious for its promotion of racist pseudoscience and efforts to \u201cimprove racial stock\u201d by reducing the population of those deemed inferior for over a century.<\/p>\n

The ties of Adrian Hill to the Galton Institute should raise obvious concerns given the push to make the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine he developed with Gilbert the vaccine of choice for the developing world, particularly countries in Latin America, South and Southeast Asia and Africa, the very areas where the Galton Institute\u2019s past members have called for reducing population growth.<\/p>\n

In the final installment of this series on Operation Warp Speed, the US government\u2019s vaccination effort, and race, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\u2019s ties to Eugenics-linked institutions, the secretive role of Vaccitech, and the myth of the vaccine\u2019s sale being \u201cnon-profit\u201d and altruistically motivated are explored in detail.<\/p>\n

GlaxoSmithKline and the Jenner Institute<\/h2>\n

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Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eugenics aims to improve humanity by \u201cbreeding out\u201d disease, disabilities and other \u201cundesirable elements\u201d. In its brief history eugenics has been inextricably linked to population control and reduction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":224150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224159,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224158\/revisions\/224159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}