"COVID was a horrible thing, but it had a lot of unintended positive effects . . ." such as informing many members of the public that pharma is not to be trusted, that the governments aren't to be trusted and that some strange things are going on in the world that need to be stopped.
Thank you for sharing that background for me. I've done a little research that pulled George Church into my focus before, here's a couple stories from the same Time 100 Summit in 2019 that may be of interest to you:
Dr. George Church, Dr. Giuliana Testa, Dr. Pardis Sabeti (Ariana Huffington moderator)
Creating Medical Miracles, Ethically, April 23, 2019
"AH: You all have been to the idea of the third rail in each of your fields, like where would you not go? And I would love to hear a story or an example of a time when you said “I’m not going to go there. I’m not going to play God.” Have any one of you had a moment like that?
GC: Well, I don’t think we’re in any danger of playing a major deity, but we’re, we could certainly do, there’s a line which we don’t cross. There’s some things which I don’t even discuss, until many years later when someone else thinks of the same idea.
An example of that was, personalized weapons, biological weapons, when you make a weapon that is specific for a particular person. And I kept that a secret, I didn’t tell anybody for about a decade. And then somebody else who I happen to know thought about it independently and was planning on publishing it in The Atlantic, and I said to him, “do you really want to do this, I mean this is enabling, for no particular purpose?” And it was framed in terms of Barack Obama being the target. And I just thought it was a, that’s an example of a line that I didn’t cross and I wouldn’t. But it did, and it was published, so.
AH: Should the decision not to publish something that in the hands of the wrong people could wreak devastation be a matter for government regulation?
GC: Both ideas I did share because I do think that other people are thinking about. Just they’re a rare one every now and again that it seems like there could buy us an extra ten years if I shut up. But I think because we talk about these ideas so far in advance, the ones we think that we can protect, that we do, that the ethics can stay ahead of technology. Not just catch up, but stay ahead, so we, the, the world of science fiction writers, the Hollywood, can come up with scenarios that are well outside our technical capabilities, but are inside our abilities to have a discussion among the entire population by introducing it to millions of television or movie watchers for example, or book readers, magazine readers. That is how we start the discussion before it is technically possible. And then many of these, we’ve been worrying about designer babies since before the first IVF in 1978. That’s an example of something that the ethics especially got ahead of the technology."
Leading Doctors Discussed Creating Ethical Medical Miracles at the TIME 100 Summit
“Speaking at the first Time 100 Summit in New York City on Tuesday, prominent geneticist George Church admitted that for about 10 years, he knew biological weapons could be specifically targeted to individual people. But he kept it to himself.
Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, participated in a panel discussing how to introduce breakthroughs in medicine”
“Church is among the first scientists to appreciate that DNA and genes would become the biological currency of this century. He has contributed to critical advancements in gene editing, which remains controversial for its enormous power to permanently alter the human gene pool, as well as that of plants and animals. Gene editing could make it possible to erase lethal diseases, produce higher crop yields and even create healthier foods. But genetic manipulation, taken to another extreme, can create super bugs and even possibly create super humans with enhanced abilities to think, move and alter their world. Current regulations, social norms and cultures have been slow to address how best to apply these possible changes to the human experience.”
“The final panelist, Pardis Sabeti, joined the call for needing more humanity in applying scientific advances. She’s a professor in Harvard University’s Center for Systems Biology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.
Sabeti played a key role in directing the emergency response to the Ebola epidemic in western Africa that began in 2013 and culminated in 2016. She and her team sequenced samples of the Ebola virus isolated from those who were infected in order to determine, real time, how the infections were spreading. That helped public health experts decide on the most effective control strategies by tracing patients’ immediate contacts and ensuring that those at highest risk of spreading the virus were properly supported and monitored.
“The problem with the way we quarantined people during the [Ebola] outbreak early on was that it was draconian,” she said, “It made people feel isolated. I wrote a memo for people in the Pentagon and the President’s office a week into the outbreak that we need Disney involved. We need a food court, we need people who know how to help people get in and out of the [Hazmat] suits and make people who are infected know that they are secure and loved, not isolated. I believe in quarantine; it is effective. But I think our entire culture about the way we think about quarantine needs to change so we engage each other as partners.””
This interests me a lot, but how to get the information out to stop it I don't know. I write my congressman about many things. Especially the frankenfoods. EctoLife I didn't see mention in the article. Link below about them. Our wonderful FDA has already approved 3 gene edited products for our consumption that we don't know if we are eating. Italy did studies on Gates's synthetic meat and found it caused cancer and banned it. Funny the FDA didn't find the same thing. They like the money.
Hi Alexis, I'm 64 with a masters of science from MIT. When the pandemic hit I dove in to the biology of viruses, what causes diseases in general and uncovered lots of unexpected science that hasn't been shared in the mainstream channels of education, documentaries, news, etc. The most startling was HGTT (Horizontal Gene Transfer Transduction) a mechanism in which viruses transfer genetic information between living organisms to evolve them in an adaptive way.
Some scientists estimate that 40% of the human genome was installed via HGTT. We know for sure that over 8% of the human genome was installed via HGTT through retroviruses because markers are present identifying the DNA that came from a retrovirus. There are many books that discuss HGT (Horizontal Gene Transfer) which includes three different mechanisms, transformation, transduction and conjugation. All of these transfer DNA laterally between living organisms rather than by the "vertical" transmission of DNA from parent to offspring in reproduction. While we were taught that DNA remains the same through out our lives, that is now known to be false. Instead, we now know for certain that organisms' DNA change quite often throughout our lives. I bring this up because viruses are the vectors that make realtime adaptive genetic evolution possible. Although virology claims that some viruses are pathogens (and that is strongly contested) we know for sure that viruses are a key to maintaining health in a world where new toxic chemicals are developed quite often.
With all of that in mind, if humans are altered to resist viruses, we will essentially stop evolving. It turns out viruses are needed for evolutionary adaptation. The Neo-Darwinian theory of evolution is no longer considered realistic by many scientists based on recent advancements in our understanding of DNA. Evolutionary biologists who study HGTT suspect that viruses have been helping all kingdoms of life to evolve ever since life began. So it seems that viruses are vital to survival of all forms of life.
I wrote a chapter in my new book about HGTT and include sources and links to supporting videos etc. The book is available via free download as a PDF from here: https://www.soulcovenant.org/heart-consciousness
Viruses are discussed in the chapter titled "Life in Lockdown". The part about viruses begins near the bottom of page 443 and the HGT part starts at the bottom of page 451.
Great info Alexis. More evidence to contribute to the puzzle.
"COVID was a horrible thing, but it had a lot of unintended positive effects . . ." such as informing many members of the public that pharma is not to be trusted, that the governments aren't to be trusted and that some strange things are going on in the world that need to be stopped.
Thank you for sharing that background for me. I've done a little research that pulled George Church into my focus before, here's a couple stories from the same Time 100 Summit in 2019 that may be of interest to you:
Dr. George Church, Dr. Giuliana Testa, Dr. Pardis Sabeti (Ariana Huffington moderator)
Creating Medical Miracles, Ethically, April 23, 2019
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/dr-george-church-dr-giuliana-214036340.html
Transcript (02:49)
"AH: You all have been to the idea of the third rail in each of your fields, like where would you not go? And I would love to hear a story or an example of a time when you said “I’m not going to go there. I’m not going to play God.” Have any one of you had a moment like that?
GC: Well, I don’t think we’re in any danger of playing a major deity, but we’re, we could certainly do, there’s a line which we don’t cross. There’s some things which I don’t even discuss, until many years later when someone else thinks of the same idea.
An example of that was, personalized weapons, biological weapons, when you make a weapon that is specific for a particular person. And I kept that a secret, I didn’t tell anybody for about a decade. And then somebody else who I happen to know thought about it independently and was planning on publishing it in The Atlantic, and I said to him, “do you really want to do this, I mean this is enabling, for no particular purpose?” And it was framed in terms of Barack Obama being the target. And I just thought it was a, that’s an example of a line that I didn’t cross and I wouldn’t. But it did, and it was published, so.
AH: Should the decision not to publish something that in the hands of the wrong people could wreak devastation be a matter for government regulation?
GC: Both ideas I did share because I do think that other people are thinking about. Just they’re a rare one every now and again that it seems like there could buy us an extra ten years if I shut up. But I think because we talk about these ideas so far in advance, the ones we think that we can protect, that we do, that the ethics can stay ahead of technology. Not just catch up, but stay ahead, so we, the, the world of science fiction writers, the Hollywood, can come up with scenarios that are well outside our technical capabilities, but are inside our abilities to have a discussion among the entire population by introducing it to millions of television or movie watchers for example, or book readers, magazine readers. That is how we start the discussion before it is technically possible. And then many of these, we’ve been worrying about designer babies since before the first IVF in 1978. That’s an example of something that the ethics especially got ahead of the technology."
Leading Doctors Discussed Creating Ethical Medical Miracles at the TIME 100 Summit
Time Magazine, April 23, 2019
https://time.com/5574168/doctors-ethical-medical-miracles-time-100-summit/
“Speaking at the first Time 100 Summit in New York City on Tuesday, prominent geneticist George Church admitted that for about 10 years, he knew biological weapons could be specifically targeted to individual people. But he kept it to himself.
Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, participated in a panel discussing how to introduce breakthroughs in medicine”
“Church is among the first scientists to appreciate that DNA and genes would become the biological currency of this century. He has contributed to critical advancements in gene editing, which remains controversial for its enormous power to permanently alter the human gene pool, as well as that of plants and animals. Gene editing could make it possible to erase lethal diseases, produce higher crop yields and even create healthier foods. But genetic manipulation, taken to another extreme, can create super bugs and even possibly create super humans with enhanced abilities to think, move and alter their world. Current regulations, social norms and cultures have been slow to address how best to apply these possible changes to the human experience.”
“The final panelist, Pardis Sabeti, joined the call for needing more humanity in applying scientific advances. She’s a professor in Harvard University’s Center for Systems Biology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.
Sabeti played a key role in directing the emergency response to the Ebola epidemic in western Africa that began in 2013 and culminated in 2016. She and her team sequenced samples of the Ebola virus isolated from those who were infected in order to determine, real time, how the infections were spreading. That helped public health experts decide on the most effective control strategies by tracing patients’ immediate contacts and ensuring that those at highest risk of spreading the virus were properly supported and monitored.
“The problem with the way we quarantined people during the [Ebola] outbreak early on was that it was draconian,” she said, “It made people feel isolated. I wrote a memo for people in the Pentagon and the President’s office a week into the outbreak that we need Disney involved. We need a food court, we need people who know how to help people get in and out of the [Hazmat] suits and make people who are infected know that they are secure and loved, not isolated. I believe in quarantine; it is effective. But I think our entire culture about the way we think about quarantine needs to change so we engage each other as partners.””
This interests me a lot, but how to get the information out to stop it I don't know. I write my congressman about many things. Especially the frankenfoods. EctoLife I didn't see mention in the article. Link below about them. Our wonderful FDA has already approved 3 gene edited products for our consumption that we don't know if we are eating. Italy did studies on Gates's synthetic meat and found it caused cancer and banned it. Funny the FDA didn't find the same thing. They like the money.
https://uncoverdc.com/2022/12/16/are-artificial-womb-facilities-with-gene-edited-babies-on-the-horizon
https://uncoverdc.com/2022/05/17/fda-says-crispr-gene-edited-cattle-safe-for-human-consumption
https://expose-news.com/2023/10/25/italy-becomes-first-nation-to-ban-bill-gates-fake-meat-due-to-serious-health-concerns/
Maybe this will help for the taxpayer funded aspects
https://peterhalligan.substack.com/p/a-day-after-metabiota-is-tied-to the Mafia-like DNC crime families and a week after 71 million bucks to Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance is exposed
Hi Alexis, I'm 64 with a masters of science from MIT. When the pandemic hit I dove in to the biology of viruses, what causes diseases in general and uncovered lots of unexpected science that hasn't been shared in the mainstream channels of education, documentaries, news, etc. The most startling was HGTT (Horizontal Gene Transfer Transduction) a mechanism in which viruses transfer genetic information between living organisms to evolve them in an adaptive way.
Some scientists estimate that 40% of the human genome was installed via HGTT. We know for sure that over 8% of the human genome was installed via HGTT through retroviruses because markers are present identifying the DNA that came from a retrovirus. There are many books that discuss HGT (Horizontal Gene Transfer) which includes three different mechanisms, transformation, transduction and conjugation. All of these transfer DNA laterally between living organisms rather than by the "vertical" transmission of DNA from parent to offspring in reproduction. While we were taught that DNA remains the same through out our lives, that is now known to be false. Instead, we now know for certain that organisms' DNA change quite often throughout our lives. I bring this up because viruses are the vectors that make realtime adaptive genetic evolution possible. Although virology claims that some viruses are pathogens (and that is strongly contested) we know for sure that viruses are a key to maintaining health in a world where new toxic chemicals are developed quite often.
With all of that in mind, if humans are altered to resist viruses, we will essentially stop evolving. It turns out viruses are needed for evolutionary adaptation. The Neo-Darwinian theory of evolution is no longer considered realistic by many scientists based on recent advancements in our understanding of DNA. Evolutionary biologists who study HGTT suspect that viruses have been helping all kingdoms of life to evolve ever since life began. So it seems that viruses are vital to survival of all forms of life.
I wrote a chapter in my new book about HGTT and include sources and links to supporting videos etc. The book is available via free download as a PDF from here: https://www.soulcovenant.org/heart-consciousness
Viruses are discussed in the chapter titled "Life in Lockdown". The part about viruses begins near the bottom of page 443 and the HGT part starts at the bottom of page 451.