Bayer's SynBio Spokesman George Church

21st Century Dr. Frankensteins - Part 1

When geneticist George Church was on The Colbert Report in 2012, Stephen Colbert voiced everyone’s worst fears about his work (albeit in his uniquely outrageous and tongue-in-cheek way):

“How do you think your work will eventually destroy all mankind? It’s a couple of options. Do you think it’s going to be like a killer virus? Or more like a giant, mutant, killer-squid-man, who arises from the Pacific, between Easter Island and Chile, and feasts on our flesh?”

Killer virus? That one makes Colbert seem prophetic, given what we know about the origins of COVID-19. You’ll learn below that Church has many links to the people who funded and conducted the virus hunting, “gain-of-function” biological weapons research and pandemic planning that makes some of us suspect that COVID-19 was a Plandemic.

But, that’s not why George Church is the first scientist to be profiled in my 21st Century Dr. Frankensteins series. When I started writing about him, I had no idea about any of that!

I chose George Church because he is Bayer (Monsanto)’s poster scientist for the company’s craziest ideas about what to do with synthetic biology.

When I searched “synthetic biology” and “Bayer” in YouTube, the top result was a Leaps by Bayer video, “The Culture of Synthetic Biology and Moonshots for a Better World at SynBioBeta 2020,” where Church makes the case for genetically engineering humans to be resistant to viruses (a Chinese scientist has already engineered HIV-resistant human babies, born in 2018), engineering Frankenfoods for life (sweatshops?) on Mars, and growing human babies in artificial wombs. 

It wasn’t long before I stumbled across interviews of Church talking about how great the pandemic was for his work. Prior to COVID-19, he said, he worried that money could never be made from genetically engineering adult humans (Bayer euphemistically calls this “gene therapy”) because it seemed best suited for the treatment of the tiny number of people with rare diseases (so far, investigational CRISPR-based “therapy” has proven deadly). But, then the pandemic presented the opportunity to use ”gene therapy” in vaccines for everyone. Smiling, he said:

“COVID was a horrible thing, but it had a lot of unintended positive effects and one of them was, to my mind, a refreshed new way of looking at gene therapy where instead of dealing with ultra-rare diseases where you have $2.8 million a dose, you can have very common things like aging and pandemics. The top five pandemic vaccines were all formulated in a gene therapy way of formulation. That is to say, three of them were adenoviral capsid delivery of double-stranded DNA and two of them were lipid nanoparticle with RNA and that at as little as $2-a-dose cost of manufacturing. That completely changes the discussion about gene therapy, looking for now-common diseases like aging reversal and related things. So I’m very high on gene therapy and aging reversal and the intersection of those two, because there’s such a gigantic market.”

George Church and Robert Langer are MIT colleagues, close friends and business partners in Editas. Church is a founder of Editas, Bayer is a funder, and Langer has the company on his lengthy conflicts-of-interests list, along with Monsanto. Langer loves telling the story of how a $23 million Monsanto investment in Harvard in 1974 broke the old taboo that had prevented academics from selling out to corporations and commercializing life science. Langer, who became a billionaire during COVID due to his stake in Moderna, has been called the coronavirus common denominator. His pandemic-boosted business relationships with Charles Koch likely explain why Koch funded the Philip Zelikow-led COVID origins cover-up.

Church and Langer aren’t interested in curing rare diseases—or any disease for that matter. Why treat a small number of sick people when they can market genetic engineering to everyone?

Church’s glee at genetically engineering all of humanity echoed what the President of Bayer’s Pharmaceuticals Division, Stefan Olerich said about the mRNA vaccines being gene therapy at the World Health Summit in November 2021:

“Ultimately, the mRNA vaccines are an example of that cell and gene therapy. … If we had surveyed two years ago… Would you be willing to take gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body? We probably would have had a 95 percent refusal rate. I think this pandemic has opened many people’s eyes to innovation in a way that maybe was not possible before.”

Manipulating humans with genetic engineering is a running joke in Bayer’s crowd, only they aren’t really kidding. At Politico’s 2022 Future of Food and Farming Summit, Bayer geneticist Bob Reiter opened his talk by saying that, whenever he worries about consumer behavior (regarding acceptance of GMO foods), he reminds himself that there’s a genetic component to that.

Bayer is an active member in the World Economic Forum, where Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab, not known for cracking jokes, said in a 2023 speech at the World Governments Summit that those who master the technologies of the 4th Industrial Revolution, including synthetic biology, will be the masters of the world.

If this is true, George Church and his benefactors at Bayer are well on their way to world domination.

Church began his career working for Monsanto in a Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1985-86, and in one way or another he’s been working for it ever since.

In 2016, Monsanto licensed CRISPR technology Church helped to develop from the Broad Institute. (Jennifer Doudna invented CRISPR, but Church has received patents for “optimizing” the method “for engineering a variety of genomes ranging from yeast to human.”)

There are four companies (that I’m aware of) that Bayer funds and George Church founded or advises:

eGenesis Bio is genetically engineering pigs to produce organs for human transplant. Church is a founder.

GROBiosciences is “expanding the genetic code.” Whereas most synthetic biology today is based on creating known proteins from genetically engineered microorganisms, GRO, which stands for “genomically recoded organisms,” promises to “expand beyond the 20 amino-acid building blocks typically found in proteins to introduce non-standard amino acids.” Church is a founder.

CellinoBiotech has patented a way to mechanize and mass-produce stem cells for transplant. Church advises the company on “ex vivo protein therapeutic delivery.”

The fourth is Ginkgo Bioworks, which gobbled up George Church’s Gen9 in 2017, fast becoming the monopoly “organism company,” as it calls itself. In 2022, Ginkgo acquired competitor Zymergen, which had absorbed Church’s enEvolv in 2020.

Ginkgo is Bayer’s most important partner in its “Food-as-Software” scheme. 

Forcing consumers to accept “Food-as-Software” requires creating a scenario where they have no other choice. As I explained in our Ban SynBio Foods action alert, the Monsanto-Bayer business model is to ruin food and farming with pesticides and factory farms, and then, when customers clamor for “clean food,” to offer it up in the form of new, lab-created synthetic Frankenfoods that can be marketed as toxin- and cruelty-free.

Bayer’s insecticides are killing bees, Monsanto’s herbicides are spawning Roundup Ready weeds, and now, Bayer-Monsanto, collaboration with Ginkgo Bioworks, is genetically engineered microbes that could be the end of farming.

Ginkgo’s required risks report to the Securities and Exchange Commission reads like a science fiction writer’s list of plots for disaster movies:

“The release of genetically modified organisms or materials, whether inadvertent or purposeful, into uncontrolled environments could have unintended consequences…

“The genetically engineered organisms and materials that we develop may have significantly altered characteristics compared to those found in the wild, and the full effects of deployment or release of our genetically engineered organisms and materials into uncontrolled environments may be unknown. In particular, such deployment or release, including an unauthorized release, could impact the environment or community generally or the health and safety of our employees, our customers’ employees, and the consumers of our customers’ products. 

“In addition, if a high profile biosecurity breach or unauthorized release of a biological agent occurs within our industry, our customers and potential customers may lose trust in the security of the laboratory environments in which we produce genetically modified organisms and materials, even if we are not directly affected. Any adverse effect resulting from such a release, by us or others, could have a material adverse effect on the public acceptance of products from engineered cells and our business and financial condition. …

“We could synthesize DNA sequences or engage in other activity that contravenes biosecurity requirements, or regulatory authorities could promulgate more far-reaching biosecurity requirements that our standard business practices cannot accommodate, which could give rise to substantial legal liability, impede our business, and damage our reputation. 

“The Federal Select Agent Program (“FSAP”), involves rules administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service that regulate possession, use, and transfer of biological select agents and toxins [a euphemism for bioweapons] that have the potential to pose a severe threat to public, animal, or plant health or to animal or plant products. …[W]e could err in our observance of compliance program requirements in a manner that leaves us in noncompliance with FSAP or other biosecurity rules. …

“Third parties may use our engineered cells materials, and organisms and accompanying production processes in ways that could damage our reputation. 

“…[W]hile we have established a biosecurity program … to ensure that third parties do not obtain our engineered cells or other biomaterials for malevolent purposes, we cannot guarantee that these preventative measures will eliminate or reduce the risk of the domestic and global opportunities for the misuse or negligent use of our engineered cells materials, and organisms and production processes. …”

Ginkgo’s SEC filing makes clear how unleashing Frankenmicrobes into the environment might wreak havoc, but if that doesn’t do it for you, this chilling true story will. (You can read the original 1999 scientific publication here.)

“In the mid-1980s and 90s, after earning her PhD in microbiology, Elaine Ingham was an associate professor teaching forest science, botany, and plant pathology at Oregon State University. She was on the path to becoming a fully tenured professor, when a study she led on a genetically engineered soil bacterium changed the course of her career–and possibly all plant life on Earth.

“A European biotech company [I haven’t been able to figure out which one, but reports identify it as German. Could it be Bayer or BASF?], was preparing to commercialize a genetically engineered soil bacterium called Klebsiella planticola. In its natural form, K. planticola helps decompose plant matter. The genetically modified version was intended to convert plant waste to alcohol, which could be used for fertilizer or fuel. But when Dr. Ingham and her team decided to run their own test on the alcohol-producing bacterium, they discovered that it not only killed all of the plants tested, but had the potential to kill all terrestrial plants. Her findings ultimately prevented the genetically altered bacterium from being commercialized, highlighted the importance of pre-market safety testing, and raised awareness of the potential dangers of GMOs. Unfortunately, they also brought about the end of her affiliation with Oregon State University, an institution that received a great deal of funding from the biotech industry.”

That Dr. Ingham lost her university job when she saved the world from a GMO microbe that could have killed every plant on the planet tells us everything about the intentions of biotech behemoths like Bayer.

Another hint is the scientists who are Bayer’s spokespersons and business partners. That’s what this 21st Century Frankensteins series is all about.

What does it say about Bayer that its top spokesperson and partner in its synbio businesses is George Church, a transhumanist funded by Jeffrey Epstein?

(Monsanto has an Epstein connection, too. When Justice Department prosecutors were on the verge of charging it with a felony for illegally spraying a banned toxic pesticide and nerve agent in Hawaii, it put Alice Fisher on its defense team. Fisher, a former senior DOJ official, was involved in keeping Epstein’s controversial plea deal secret from his victims.)

The 2019 New York Times article “Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA” lists George Church among the scientists with whom Epstein cultivated relationships and describes him as “a molecular engineer who has worked to identify genes that could be altered to create superior humans.”

When George Church went on 60 Minutes to explain his relationship with Epstein, he ended up talking about his dating app that would pair people based on their genes, screening out potential mates with the wrong DNA. Gizmodo called Church’s idea “an app only a eugenicist could love.”

“That sounds like eugenics,” Fordham adjunct ethics professor and science journalist Elizabeth Yuko, who studies bioethics, told The Daily Beast. Yuko compared the app, as described, to the Nazi goal of cultivating a master race:

“I thought we realized after World War II that we weren’t going to be doing that,” she said. “It’s not clear what conditions or diseases will be screened for. Who makes that list? What’s undesirable? That’s classifying people into acceptable humans and others.”

As disturbing as that is, it is unlikely that Jeffrey Epstein’s funding of George Church was driven solely by his personal interest in eugenics or aimed at creating a genetics-based dating app.

As Whitney Webb exhaustively documents in her two-volume tome, One Nation Under Blackmail, Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell were intelligence assets involved in compromising prominent figures so that they could be manipulated by the U.S., U.K. and/or Israeli governments.

George Church is a Pentagon/CIA contractor funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) and In-Q-Tel. 

Congress gives the Pentagon and the CIA a black budget that’s going on $100 billion per year. This is a secret slush fund and literally no one knows where all the money goes, so the public information about Pentagon/CIA money flowing to George Church should be assumed to be just the tip of the iceberg and probably misleading in some way, but here are the programs we are told Church receives funding for:

Safe Genes is a program to develop defenses to gene-editing and gene-drive weapons, which has to involve the study of the weapons themselves. Church’s role was described as “to develop systems to safeguard genomes by detecting, preventing, and ultimately reversing mutations that may arise from exposure to radiation.”

What kinds of weapons that involve “exposure to radiation” might Church’s research be aimed at? 

It could be nuclear weapons like the ones used to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the depleted-uranium weapons sent to Ukraine. 

(It’s worth mentioning that Monsanto was part of the Manhattan Project. There were thousands of scientists involved, but just 14 were awarded the Medal for Merit for their participation. One of them was Charles Allen Thomas, Monsanto’s research director. He was offered a co-directorship of the project, along with J. Robert Oppenheimer, but chose not to move to Los Alamos and instead oversaw the development of the polonium trigger in Dayton. After the bombs were dropped on Japan, Thomas continued Monsanto’s nuclear weapons research from 1946 to 1948, running a Dayton laboratory to test the biological impact of polonium radiation on humans, including by analyzing thousands of urine samples from Monsanto workers exposed to polonium. Thomas went on to serve as president of Monsanto from 1951 to 1960, and as chairman of the board from 1960 to 1965, before retiring from the company in 1970.)

Today, in addition to old-school nukes and armor-piercing depleted uranium tank rounds, the Pentagon has new radiation weapons, including the directed energy weapons that it spends $1 billion on each year.

The Pentagon says Havana syndrome is a microwave weapon that bathes the target in deadly radiation and it’s developing sensors to detect such weapons, which it can’t do without experimenting with the weapons themselves. It also admits to microwave weapons for “non-lethal crowd control.” 

Beyond gene-editing weapons, George Church’s Pentagon/CIA contracts include:

Biology is Technology (BiT), a wide-ranging DARPA program on everything “from programmable microbes to human-machine symbiosis.” Officially, Church received BiT funding to engineer DNA to store data, but in an interview at a BiT symposium in 2015, he talked about several things he was working on, including gene-drives and his partnership with Chinese gene-sequencing giant BGI.

Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONS) is an IARPA program that “aims to reverse-engineer one cubic millimeter of the brain, study the way it makes computations, and use those findings to better inform algorithms in machine learning and artificial intelligence.” Church’s piece is “barcoding the brain” and his team has already “mapped neural connections in mice by injecting viruses encoding nucleotide barcodes into their brains.” In a decade-old talk, “George Church on the Future of Human Genomics and Synthetic Biology,” he explains that “We’re getting to the point—another Brave New World issue—where we can not only manipulate human genomes, but we can manipulate human brains. We can either program them in situ with these innovative neurotechnologies or we can build brains outside of the body…” Watch the clip of the full quote here.

Functional Genomic and Computational Assessment of Threats (Fun GCAT) is an IARPA project where “researchers developed computational pipelines to analyze DNA and answer three questions per sequence: What organism does it come from? What biological functions does it have? How dangerous is it?” 

You don’t have to be a scientist to realize that, even though the U.S. doesn’t admit to having an offensive biological weapons program, George Church’s Pentagon/CIA-funded work could be used for such endeavors. Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, on the day Charles Lieber was arrested, an anonymous Reddit user posted such suspicions:   

“Epstein gave exorbitant amounts of money, at least $9 million (pledged $30 million) to researchers funded by DoD, DARPA, IARPA, and NIH at Harvard University with the expertise and technology to genetically engineer and improve bacteria and viruses. One of Harvard's most prominent scientists who received $18 million from DoD and NIH was arrested and charged for operating a secret lab in Wuhan China just hours ago - This researcher was given over $1.5 million dollars to do so, in secret, by Chinese institutions. Meanwhile, the area where the new coronavirus emerged (Wuhan) recently opened a biosafety level 4 lab (the only one in China, a country with 1.4 billion people) where researchers were actually studying and experimenting with the genetics of coronaviruses over the past few years before the emergence of this new strain. Whether these things are linked or not remains to be see, but each of these independent statements are in fact true.

“A few years ago, I attended a private government research conference where Dr. George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT, was describing how his lab systematically altered the genome of a bacterial cell using synthetic biology and genetic engineering to make cells resistant to viruses. There was some brief discussion of how these techniques could be used for the opposite purpose (to engineer viruses to improve them or make them less recognizable by the host, thus delaying the immune response). Immediately following Dr. Church’s presentation, other researchers and myself had a discussion about how frightening these technological capabilities were. Over the years, this concern has always remained in the back of my mind and I’ve discussed it with others that didn’t attend the talk on various occasions. It is worth noting that a lot of George Church’s recent research also involves the study and engineering of viruses. Most recently in his career, Dr. Church has been funded by DARPA and IARPA, with the most recently funded grant titled, ‘Functional Genomic and Computational Assessment of Threats’ (by IARPA).

“http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/gc_grants.html

“The description of this grant solicitation, if you search for it, starts with:

“‘The biological sciences have experienced extraordinary growth over the past decade. Technological advances in DNA synthesis, sequencing, large gene construction, and data analysis are expanding biological research and the bioeconomy, and are likely to enable revolutionary advances in medicine, agriculture, and materials. At the same time, these advances have intensified security concerns around the accidental or deliberate misuse of biotechnologies. One special concern regards DNA synthesis technologies that can be used to create novel organisms.’

“Hence, Dr. Church is obviously involved in the area of applying advanced techniques (lab based and computational) to engineer organisms to make them resistant to viruses (and potentially vice-versa, to engineer viruses), and is involved in the efforts to combat the risks involved.

“Interestingly enough, Dr. Church was one of the scientists most involved with Jeffrey Epstein. …” 

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s “philanthropic” projects was the Edge Foundation, famous for its annual billionaires’ dinner. As George Church recalls in the 2020 video mentioned at the beginning of this article, in 2009, Elon Musk’s SpaceX hosted him for an Edge Masterclass on Synthetic Genomics. The videos from Church’s Masterclass, which are well worth the watch, are still on the Edge website, except for Humans 2.0 which has been taken down.

Present at Church’s 2009 Edge Masterclass were people and representatives of organizations implicated in the origin of COVID-19: 

• Larry Page, Co-founder, Google

• Larry Brilliant, Skoll Urgent Threats Fund (also inaugural Executive Director of Google.org, established in 2005)

• Thomas Kalil, Deputy Director for Policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Senior Advisor for Science, Technology and Innovation for the National Economic Council, Obama-Biden Administration (now at Schmidt Futures, run by former Google/Alphabet CEO Eric Schmidt)

• Nathan Wolfe, Global Virus Forecasting Initiative (later Metabiota, now Ginkgo Bioworks)

In 2008, Larry Page and Larry Brilliant launched Predict and Prevent, a $30 million investment in virus hunting and “gain-of-function” research on potential pandemic pathogens. Google and Skoll each gave $5.5 million, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Merck Research Laboratories and the U.S. Department of Defense covered the rest.

With the inauguration of the Obama-Biden Administration in 2009, Predict and Prevent became a project of the U.S. Agency for International Development (U.S.A.I.D.) which gave it hundreds of millions of dollars in funding. The project retained the name Predict.

The money went to Nathan Wolfe’s non-profit Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, which was soon to become the for-profit Metabiota. The Predict virus hunts, in which Metabiota collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance, turned up both the closest-known relative to SARS-CoV-2 and the virus that Ralph Baric manipulated with so-called “gain-of-function” experiments to create what may in fact be SARS-CoV-2.

Hunter Biden also invested in Metabiota and his laptop revealed that his team at Rosemont Seneca was helping the company communicate with the Obama-Biden administration and garner government contracts, including for work on a “science project” in Ukraine. After evidence linking Metabiota to the origin of COVID and the Biden bribery scandal came to light, Metabiota was purchased by Ginkgo Bioworks.

The people who attended the Edge/SpaceX event weren’t just people Church gave a masterclass to. 

Church has a mind-boggling list of conflicts of interest that links him to this network financially. 

As stated above, Ginkgo Bioworks, which now owns Metabiota, is a partner of George Church and Bayer.

Google Ventures has invested in several of the start-ups launched from Church’s lab, including 23andme, DynoTx and Editas. Like Bayer, Google’s Eric Schmidt is a funder of Church’s GRObio through his venture capital firm Innovation Endeavors.

George Church and Ralph Baric worked together in a group convened in 2006 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under the banner, “Synthetic Genomics: Options for Governance.” Other participants included Tom Knight who would found Ginkgo Bioworks in 2008 and Tara O’Toole who had crafted the Dark Winter planning exercise that eerily predicted the 2001 anthrax attacks and would go on to do the same for COVID-19 with Clade X and Event 201. Currently, Tara O’Toole is a senior fellow and executive vice president at In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, which funds Ginkgo Bioworks, Metabiota and George Church’s Colossal Biosciences. 

Ralph Baric filed a patent on “Methods for producing recombinant coronavirus” in 2002. SARS didn’t hit until February 2003. The paper Ralph Baric produced for the Synthetic Genomics group, “Synthetic Viral Genomics: Risks and Benefits for Science and Society,” is short on benefits. It reads like a handbook for engineers of synthetic biological weapons, complete with how-to’s on the way “‘No See’m’ sites can be used to insert foreign genes into viral, eukaryotic, or microbial genome or vector, simultaneously removing all evidence of the restriction sites that were used in the recombinant DNA manipulation” and the “‘scapegoat’ option; leaving a sequence signature that misdirects efforts at tracking the true originators of the crime.”

Another important organization in this web that receives major funding from Google (through Eric Schmidt) is the Broad Institute. George Church worked with Broad Institute’s founder and director Eric Lander on the Human Genome Project and Church’s Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research was a founding organization of the Broad Institute. Eric Lander is a key figure in the origin of COVID-19 and its cover-up who, like Church, knew Jeffrey Epstein. 

The Broad Institute launched the MIT-Broad Foundry for Synthetic Biology (now known as Asimov), which is funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA)’s FELIX (Finding Engineering-Linked Indicators) program. Ginkgo Bioworks, Bayer’s top synbio partner and the conglomerate that gobbled up at least two of Church’s synbio start-ups, is also part of the FELIX team.

Back in January 2020, FELIX made a bizarre attempt to “test the veracity of online stories” and prove that COVID-19 had a natural origin. The FELIX team compared the SARS-CoV-2 genome to 58 million virus sequences, and “after only 10 minutes of analysis,” it determined: 

“[A]ll regions of the SARS-CoV-2 genome match naturally-occurring coronaviruses better than they match any other organisms, including any other viruses. This analysis indicates that no sequences from foreign species have been engineered into SARS-CoV-2.”

One virus that wasn’t in the database was the coronavirus created in Ralph Baric’s infamous 2015 gain-of-function experiment. He didn’t make his virus public until May 2020, after the whole world had been wondering for months if his work to give a bat coronavirus collected by the Predict team the power to leap the species barrier and infect humans, might be what caused COVID-19.

The FELIX team also missed RaTG13, another bat coronavirus collected by Predict, that the Wuhan Institute of Virology identified in early 2020 as the closest known relative to SARS-CoV-2. This virus should have been available to FELIX, as it had been published previously as Ra4991.

Another really weird thing about the FELIX review is that it seems like a rebuttal to “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag,” but that’s impossible because the FELIX report came out in January 2020 and the “Uncanny similarity” paper wasn’t posted until January 31, 2020. Our clairvoyant Director of National Intelligence had the foresight to debunk the HIV rumor before it even got started!

The graphic for FELIX’s “COVID is not genetically engineered” statement lists viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 and viruses it says aren’t related. It lists human immunodeficiency viruses 1-3 and marks those with a red X, indicating there’s no genomic similarity to SARS-CoV-2. Then, it lists bat betacoronaviruses BtRs-BetaCoV/YN2018C, BtRI-BetaCoV/SC2018, and SARS-related coronavirus YNLF 31C. Those viruses are linked with an arrow to the graphic of the SARS-CoV-2 genome, indicating a short genomic distance to it.

Why such a transparent and shoddy attempt to preemptively rebut the evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was genetically engineered?

The ostensible goal of FELIX was to be able to tell the difference between a naturally occurring pathogen and one that was engineered in a lab, but the same research could be used to help scientists get better at what Ralph Baric calls the No See’m technique that keeps detectable fingerprints off lab creations. As one journalist explained, “If you know how to detect bioengineering, you theoretically understand how to hide your own.”

Was the true purpose of FELIX to hide bioengineering rather than reveal it? If so, the shabbiness of the analysis would be a feature not a bug. Most of what IARPA does is classified and funded from a secret budget, so there’s more to the FELIX project than has been revealed to the public.

Publicly, the FELIX analysis was portrayed as having a “junk in, junk out” problem.” It has been quietly removed from the FELIX website. (You can see a screenshot here.) Having “failed” in just the right way, the program and its participants were rewarded with more government grants. 

When Ginkgo Bioworks announced the results of the work it had done on FELIX since 2018 (video here), the FELIX’s 2020 COVID origins analysis was downplayed, not mentioned in the press release, and only briefly mentioned in the Q&A.

Some people have looked at the evidence that COVID-19 was a Plandemic and determined that it was a U.S. bioweapon targeted at China.

It seems plausible, but the story is complicated by the fact that the virus is said to have “leaked” from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Anonymous U.S. government sources have even named the scientists they claim were the first to get sick, Ben Hu Yu Ping and Yan Zhu. 

If China weren’t in on this charade, and were actually attacked, they would have rebutted this with their own patient zero, along with evidence about how they got infected. Instead, the Chinese have stuck with their own version of tbe “lab leak hypothesis,” that the virus leaked from Fort Detrick.

SARS-CoV-2 was “chimera from Chimerica.” Why else would the Anthony Fauci of China, George Gao, have participated in Event 201?

Who in the U.S. and China have aligned interests that a Plandemic would serve?

George Church and Wang Jian.

They are partners in Wang’s BGI, China’s largest biotech company, which purchased Church’s Complete Genomics in 2013. At the time, BGI’s gene-sequencing capacity was estimated at 10 percent of the world’s total, already the global number one. Complete Genomics gave BGI the edge in sequencing "whole human genomes.” 

The year before, in 2012, BGI had begun a collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (an Event 201 host). Wang said in a press statement:

"Having contributed to the Human Genome Project as well as sequencing the genomes of many critical plant and animal species and human diseases, including the initial sequencing of the rice genome as well as our involvement in the Rice 10,000 Genome Project, the 1,000 Plants and Animals Genome Project, the International 1,000 genomes project, the 1,000 Rare Diseases Project, the International Cancer Genome Project, Autism Genome 10K, among others, BGI looks forward to partnering with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in this significant collaboration to apply genomics research to benefit global human health."

BGI’s acquisition of Complete Genomics was incredibly controversial and the main objection raised was that it would give the Chinese an edge in the development of bioweapons. This concern had been analyzed in 2011 by a joint Chinese-U.S. report (David R. Franz served on the committee) entitled, “Life Sciences and Related Fields: Trends Relevant to the Biological Weapons Convention” which examined a number of bioweapons made possible new synthetic biology, including:

• “the malign creation of a pathogen entirely through chemical synthetic techniques”

• “the use of understandings gained through computer modeling and systems biology to manipulate biological pathways for harm”

• “the delivery as a bioweapon of DNA encoding a pathogen toxin so that the resulting toxin protein is produced within a host’s own cells”

• “the misuse of materials science to encapsulate drugs and genes into bioweapons consisting of nanoparticles or ‘artificial viruses’ for improved biological targeting and uptake”

• “the synthetic re-creation of known pathogens, the combination of sequences from several microorganisms to create new chimeric pathogens, or even the design and synthesis of novel pathogens”

BGI’s American competitor Illumina offered to buy Complete Genomics noting that “national security, industrial policy, personal identifier information protection and other concerns raised in connection with an acquisition … by a foreign state-owned entity create meaningful uncertainty around a BGI acquisition.” Illumina even outbid BGI, offering $123 million when BGI paid just $118 million, but Complete Genomics rejected their higher purchase price, saying the Chinese bid was of “superior quality.”

At a 2017 Shenzhen business conference, Wang Jian gave an alarming speech where he layed out exactly how BGI’s business was ideally suited for the production of biological weapons:

“So, gene synthesis is here. Synthesize a brand new gene. We synthesized a yeast. First, we synthesized a virus. Then we can make a bacteria. Next we synthesized the yeast. How big is the gene of a yeast? 12 million basic groups. Human has a gene with 3 billion basic groups. We achieved the level of tens of millions now. So, no doubt, in the 5 to 10 years future, we can synthesize any life chemically. This is not kidding or even threatening in public. The progress of artificial life is probably faster than artificial intelligence. It will bring us more problems in ethics, religion, philosophy and law. However, regardless of whether you like this future prospect and vision or not, we bring it here. From transgenics and gene editing to gene synthesis. It’s a rapid and earth shaking change in just a few years. Especially the gene synthesis is conducted at an industrial level. In the past few years, we only maintained the level of a million basic groups per year, but in 2018, we can hit the million target just in one month. In 2019, we will make it weekly as a regular job. By 2020, we will synthesize the millions of basic groups daily. What’s the indication of millions level daily? E. coli has 2 million basic groups so we can make a brand new bacteria in two days. We can make a beneficial bacteria and also can make a terrible bacteria. Human being has experienced the the war of cold weapon, hot weapon and atomic bomb. It must transform to the live weapon (biotic weapon). Extremely horrible, but the prevention will be upgraded also.”

Bayer has a longstanding relationship with BGI. Together in 2009, Bayer and BGI were the first to sequence the entire canola genome. (This is pretty startling when you think about it, because it had already been genetically engineered for a decade at that point. Clearly, Monsanto had no idea what it was doing to canola when they genetically engineered it, whether they were causing it to become toxic or an allergen, because they couldn’t even read the plant’s genome yet!)

Today, no company can gene-sequence faster or cheaper than BGI, and bioweapons fears continue to surround the business.

What can we glean from this web of connections? Is it just a coincidence that breakthroughs in genetic engineering and synthetic biology are enabling simultaneous advances in bioweapons, vaccines and Frankenfoods all at once? And, as these technologies arrive, looking for markets, we suddenly have a convergence of events, including a pandemic and what seems to be a controlled demolition of the food system, to provide a raison d’etre for these technologies? Is it just a coincidence that all of the people and corporations involved seem to be in league, that they speak comfortably and openly about the same things that get us labeled “conspiracy theorists” as they publicly plan the roll-out of their schemes? Is it strange that they were all influenced by a suicided sex-ring operator linked to the “intelligence community”?

George Church and the other scientists in Bayer’s circle are running an experiment to see whether, like factory farmed animals, the modern workforce can be penned in, prophylactically injected with pharmaceuticals and fed a diet of genetically engineered synthetics. Modern Mengeles, they have no moral compass. They will produce whatever product is most profitable. If creating drugs for healthy people makes more money than curing the sick, so be it. If fake foods make more money than real farms, so be it. It doesn’t matter to them if the microbes they’re engineering are used as bioweapons or vaccines or Frankenfoods. They don’t care if their funding comes from the military or Monsanto.

In future additions to the 21st Century Dr. Frankensteins series, we’ll expose them.