The first thing I read every morning is the Mercola report which is often the source for inspiration for this Newsletter. Today Dr. Mercola writes about conflict of interest at the NIH. In Righting the Ship: Part I I addressed the conflict of interest at the FDA in Part II I explored conflicts of interest at the CDC with a particular nod of the head to the CDC Foundation. In today’s Mercola e-mail there is a piece called: Massive Conflicts of Interest in the NIH in which he documents the tens of millions of dollars donated to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) given over a 20 year period by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Mercola noted that the Gates Foundation is responsible for 15% of the FNIH budget. But that is only the very tip of the conflict of interest iceberg that the FNIH creates for the NIH.
In its 2020 Statutory Report the FNIH tells us that over the past 20 years the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been donating more than ten million dollars each year. But what Mercola doesn’t point out is that right behind the Gates Foundation on the donor list are the following companies which have donated between five and ten million dollars each year:
Company Years Donating
Pfizer 23
GlaxoSmitKline 22
Eli Lilly and Company 21
Johnson & Johnson 20
Wellcome 2
Just as the CDC Foundation supports research not included in their Congressionally approved budget the FNIH is supported in part by taxpayer provided NIH dollars. In Fact, over a 24 year period that the NIH has been donating to it the FNIH has somewhere between $60,000,000 and $119,999,976 of taxpayer money.
Why?
To support research not approved by Congress and controlled by a Board of Directors replete with executives of pharmaceutical companies, foundations, and schools of public health.
A Final Word
On March 1, 2022 Julie Gerberding, MD became the CEO of the FNIH. Gerberding, a former CDC Director is most remembered for a study on obesity in 2003. In describing the CDC findings of that study, Gerberding offered these comments:
“There’s a pandemic of obesity we are experiencing in this country,” said Gerberding. “If you looked at any epidemic — whether it’s influenza or plague from the Middle Ages — they are not as serious as the epidemic of obesity in terms of the health impact on our country and our society.”
There was just one problem; the study was found to be deeply flawed and presented a grossly over-estimated number of obese Americans. Rather than retracting the study with an apology the Gerberding CDC offered an excuse blaming math errors and miscommunications. A time line of this debacle is well worth the read.
There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that our public health agencies are deeply compromised with deeply conflicted financial interests from the very companies that they oversee and regulate. In addition, they have been and continue to be headed by individuals of dubious ethical motivation and lacking in righteousness.
”Those who walk righteously and speak what is right, who reject gain from extortion and keep their hands from accepting bribes, who stop their ears against plots of murder and shut their eyes against contemplating evil—they are the ones who will dwell on the heights, whose refuge will be the mountain fortress. Their bread will be supplied, and water will not fail them.” Isaiah 33:15-16
Union, KY
14 March 2022
This may be slightly off subject, but I'm hoping to get some eyes on this mainly to verify the story.
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/gates-fauci-and-daszak-charged-with-genocide-in-court-filing/article_76c6081c-61b8-11ec-ae59-7718e6d063ed.html