Last week, Project Veritas released a stunning video of an undercover reporterās bar conversation with Jordon Trishton Walker, a 27-year-old man who claimed to be the Director of Research and Development at Pfizer. Walker told the reporter the company was exploring ways to āmutateā COVID viruses through ādirected evolutionā in order to develop future vaccines.
The loose-lipped Walker told the reporter, āDonāt tell anyone this though. Promise you wonāt tell anyone.ā
āOne of the things weāre exploring is, like, why donāt we just mutate it ourselves, so we could create ā preemptively develop new vaccines, right? So, we have to do that. If weāre gonna do that though, thereās a risk of, like, as you could imagine ā no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating f***ing viruses.ā
Walker provided his theory on how the virus originated: āYou have to be very controlled to make sure that this virus that you mutate doesnāt 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. Itās bull****.ā
He continued, āThe way it would work is that we put them in, put the virus in these monkeys. And then we successively, like, cause them to keep infecting each other, and we collect serial samples from them ā¦ā
Walker said Pfizer does not fear government regulators because many of them plan to work in Big Pharma eventually and donāt want to burn their bridges.
Additionally, he admitted that COVID vaccines have been and continue to be a cash cow for the company, and it wants to keep those profits rolling.
(The video was removed from Youtube for violating the siteās ācommunity guidelines.ā)
A few points about the video. Viewers arenāt told precisely whom Walker thinks his companion is. When he was eventually confronted by Project Veritasā founder James OāKeefe (in a second video), Walker said, āI was trying to impress a person on a date by lying.ā
Please also note also that the video has been edited, which could potentially skew context. And, according to Forbes, ā Google search didnāt really reveal any legitimate source that could verify the personās name and title.ā Pfizerās Jan. 27 response to the allegations made against their company does not mention Walker specifically.
On Friday, Pfizer responded to the allegations. The best description of the companyās statement comes in the title of an article published by the Independent Sentinel: āPfizer Issues a Doublespeak Non-Denial Denial of Directed Evolution.ā
Pfizerās statement said the company āwould like to set the record straight.ā It does not mention Walker. The company denied they have conducted gain-of-function research, which is research intended to increase the lethality or the transmissibility of a pathogen. Nor have they engaged in directed evolution research, which is defined by Nature Magazine as a ācyclic process that alternates between gene diversification and screening for or selection of functional gene variants.ā
I have no background in Science and canāt begin to explain the difference between the two. In fact, my mind harkens back to a song that topped the charts in the 1980ās called, āShe Blinded Me with Science.ā But I digress.
Next, the statement said, āWorking 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.ā Oh, of course. How did we miss that?
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It continued: āThis 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.ā
Next, they launched into a discussion of Paxlovid, a Pfizer drug that is widely used to treat COVID. āIn addition, to meet U.S. and global regulatory requirements for our oral treatment, PAXLOVIDā¢, Pfizer undertakes in vitro work (e.g., in a laboratory culture dish) to identify potential resistance mutations to nirmatrelvir, one of PAXLOVIDās two components. With a naturally evolving virus, it is important to routinely assess the activity of an antiviral.ā
The Project Veritas video was all about how the company was allegedly manipulating viruses, which Pfizer and others call a baseless conspiracy. However, Pfizer appeared to admit to this very thing in certain situations:
āMost of this work is conducted using computer simulations or mutations of the main proteaseāa 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.ā (Emphasis added.)
This wasnāt safe when it was done in Wuhan, China, and it isnāt safe when itās done here. A virus doesnāt need to outsmart anyone ā all it takes is one careless mistake to hitch a ride to the outside world. Definitely not something we want being done in secret at some unaccountable laboratory or anywhere else.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
