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Tusk calls out Chapel Hill for heinous role in global Covid death and misery

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Readers of the Tusk know I've spent the better part of my life digging into heretical science — research that the mainstream either refuses to look at or pretends doesn't exist. From the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis to the possibility of pre-Ice Age high technology, we've always asked the forbidden questions and followed the data wherever it leads.

This week, I've taken that same instinct — what some would call a contrarian reflex — and pointed it in a new direction: one that hits close to home.

I've published an op-ed in the Carolina Journal on the subject of UNC-Chapel Hill's virology program, and the deeply troubling evidence that it played a central role in creating the SARS-CoV-2 virus that killed over 20 million people globally.

Yes, you read that right. And no, it's not hyperbole.

This isn't just speculation. Thanks to court-ordered documents pried loose by the nonprofit watchdog US Right to Know, we now know that Ralph Baric's lab at UNC:
  • Engineered novel SARS-related coronaviruses in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
  • Created these viruses with enhanced pandemic potential — on purpose.
  • Proposed misleading the U.S. government about where the research would be conducted — claiming Chapel Hill, but planning Wuhan.
  • Delivered both the blueprint and the lab-grown mice with humanized lungs needed to bring these viruses to life.
And all this happened not in secretive foreign biolabs — but right here in North Carolina.

Syringe

SOTT Focus: Health Secretary Kennedy: "I've Fired The Entire Vaccine Approval Board"

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"Look at me. I'm in charge of vaccines now."
We're reconstituting an advisory committee to avoid conflicts of interest.

Vaccines have become a divisive issue in American politics, but there is one thing all parties can agree on: The U.S. faces a crisis of public trust. Whether toward health agencies, pharmaceutical companies or vaccines themselves, public confidence is waning.

Some would try to explain this away by blaming misinformation or antiscience attitudes. To do so, however, ignores a history of conflicts of interest, persecution of dissidents, a lack of curiosity, and skewed science that has plagued the vaccine regulatory apparatus for decades.

Comment: RFK Jr further justified his bold move on X:
Yesterday, I retired 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or ACIP, the @CDCgov external panel that wields the grave responsibility of adding new vaccines to the recommended childhood schedule. Over the coming days, I will use this platform to announce new members to populate ACIP. None of these individuals will be ideological anti-vaxxers. They will be highly credentialed physicians and scientists who will make extremely consequential public health determinations by applying evidence-based decision-making with objectivity and common sense.

I will also be tweeting examples of the historical corruption at ACIP to help the public understand why this clean sweep was necessary.

The most outrageous example of ACIP's malevolent malpractice has been its stubborn unwillingness to demand adequate safety trials before recommending new vaccines for our children. Today, a compliant American child receives between 69 and 92 routine vaccines (depending on brand/dictated dosage) from conception to 18 years of age. This is up from 11 shots in 1986. ACIP has recommended each of these additional jabs without requiring placebo-controlled trials for any of them. This means that no one can scientifically ascertain whether these products are averting more problems than they are causing.

Many vaccine promoters have challenged this assertion. They are always wrong. Last week, @CNN, which has devolved into a shameless propagandist for Big Pharma, triumphantly announced that it had proof that my pronouncement that "there have been no placebo-controlled safety trials for any routine vaccines" was false. CNN gleefully proclaimed that it had found 257 placebo-controlled studies for routine vaccines.

So, allow me a moment to deconstruct CNN's claims. Warning: this post may only be sufferable for science geeks like myself.

CNN is wrong. No routine injected vaccine on CDC's schedule was licensed for children based on a placebo-controlled trial. In instances where a vaccine was used as a control, it too was never licensed based on a placebo-controlled trial. That is not conjecture. It is a fact based on FDA's clinical trial data. (See http://sirillp.com/noplacebo). As Secretary of @HHSGov, acknowledging this lamentable truth is part of my promise of radical transparency.

The 257 studies cited by CNN unwittingly reflect the lack of safety trials underpinning CDC's schedule. Despite CNN's worldwide effort to crowdsource trials with a placebo control (per @US_FDA/@CDCgov, an "inert substance"*), this list, on its face, reflects that 236 of the studies clearly did not use an "inert" safety comparator in a trial to license an injected routine vaccine for children on CDC's schedule.**

For the remaining 21 studies CNN's list claims used an inert injection, 9 plainly did not:

- RCT 251, 252 (Varivax) injected an antibiotic, neomycin - not inert.
- RCT 84, 97 (HPV-16 and 16/18) injected aluminum adjuvant - not inert.
- RCT 215 (Almevax) injected another vaccine - not inert.
- RCT 55 (Lyophilized PedvaxHIB) injected lactose, aluminum adjuvant, and thimerosal - not inert.
- RCT 197 (Salk vaccine) injected 199 solution, synthetic tissue culture, ethanol, phenol red, antibiotics, and formalin - not inert.***
- RCT 168 (Dow's MMR) injected full vaccine minus virus, including all stabilizers, antibiotics, diluent, preservative, and buffers - not inert.****
- RCT 189 (Menveo) injected Tdap+saline or Menveo+saline - not inert.

For the remaining 12 listed studies which may have had an inert injection, none was a trial relied upon to license a routine vaccine on CDC's childhood schedule:

- RCT 170, 171, 172 (MMR VaxPro), 228 (PCV11), 136 (Vaxigrip), 242 (Antitetanus), and 122 (Chinese flu shots) trialed vaccines never licensed in the U.S. nor relied upon to license a U.S. vaccine.
- RCT 124 (Fluzone IIV3), 102 (WVV/SPV), and 188 (Menveo) trials occurred after each respective vaccine was licensed, hence were not relied upon for their licensure.
- RCT 176 (Mumps vaccine) was not relied upon by the FDA to license the current MMR vaccine. (See MMR-II clinical trial report in link above.)
- RCT 53 (PRP-D) was for a vaccine withdrawn soon after its introduction and not relied upon by the FDA to license any U.S. vaccine.

While these 12 studies were not relied upon to license a routine vaccine on the CDC's schedule, they do reflect that a placebo-controlled trial of a vaccine is possible. They also reflect what can be learned when a placebo trial is performed. For example: RCT 136 found the vaccine ineffective; RCT 122 found that "severe adverse effects occurred in 69 (0·6%, 95% CI 0·5-0·8) recipients of vaccine compared with one recipient (0·1%, 0-0·2) of placebo."; and RCT 124 found "the rate of hospitalization was actually higher in the [Fluzone IIV3] vaccine group than in the placebo group."

The unfortunate reality is that placebo-controlled trials, however, do not occur and have not been relied upon when FDA licenses vaccines for injection during childhood or ACIP recommends the shot for addition to the CDC's routine schedule.

CNN would have reached the same conclusion had it reviewed the FDA documentation for each vaccine, instead of relying upon a random, crowd-sourced list from the internet. CNN's list ironically proves the lack of adequate safety trials for routine childhood vaccines.

It is time to stop playing games, such as CNN's false gotcha. We have gone from 3 routine injections by age one in 1986 (the year the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act passed) to 25 routine injections by age one in 2025 (which now does not include Covid-19 vaccine). Because of the 1986 Act, every one of these products, save one, was developed by companies knowing they would almost never be liable for serious harm. During this same period, chronic diseases in our children exploded, most of which are caused by immune system dysregulation. If we are to identify the exposures that are causing this epidemic of autoimmune diseases, we need to rule out products given dozens of times to young children, specifically to modify the immune system, as potential culprits.

Our infants and children deserve the best safety trials possible to keep them safe. We should care as much about every child who could be injured by one of these products as we do every child who could be injured by an infectious disease. We must protect all children.

Notes:

* https://fda.gov/media/130326/download ("Placebos, defined as inert substances with no pharmacologic activity, are commonly used in double-blind, randomized controlled clinical trials."); https://fda.gov/media/71349/download ("the placebo control design, by ... including a group that receives an inert treatment..."); https://cdc.gov/vaccines/glossary/ ("Placebo: A substance or treatment that has no effect on living beings, usually used as a comparison to vaccine or medicine in clinical trials.").

** While the above addresses injected vaccines, CNN's cited list also includes 10 trials for rotavirus vaccine, given by oral drops, but none of these trials used saline only drops. Instead, RCT 205, 207, 208, 209, 210, 213 (Rotarix) contained dextran, sorbitol, amino acids, dulbecco's modified eagle medium, calcium carbonate, and xanthan; RCT 211, 212 (RotaTeq) contained polysorbate 80, sucrose, citrate and phosphate; and RCT 206, 214 (Rotavac) included neomycin sulphate, kanamycin acid sulphate, trehalose, lactalbumin hydrolysate, human albumin, potassium dihydrogen orthophosphate, dipotassium hydrogen orthophosphate, and trisodium citrate dihydrate. The list also included three trials of an inhaled flu vaccine; the controls in RCT 104 were OPV+saline or LAIV (a vaccine), hence neither inert; in RCT 106 the control "consisted of normal allantoic fluid harvested from uninfected eggs stabilized with sucrose-phosphate-glutamate"; and, in RCT 109, the control was "intranasal spray of egg allantoic fluid containing sucrose-phosphate-glutamate."

*** Note that the current polio vaccines used in the U.S. are a different product than the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk in the 1950s — which was discontinued in the 1960s — including because the currently-used polio vaccines are "grown in vero cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells cultivated on microcarriers." Hence, the Salk trial was not relied upon to license any current polio vaccine. https://fda.gov/media/75695/download; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6740101/; https:// http://admin.phe-culturecollections.org.uk media/1222 49/ vero-cell-line-profile.pdf; https://atcc.org/products/all/ccl-81.aspx#characteristics.

**** Dow Chemical's MMR vaccine used different strains than any licensed U.S. MMR vaccine and also, after 14 days of safety review, this trial vaccinated all participants.



Cupcake Choco

Texas bill targets Doritos, Skittles and M&M's with 'not safe to eat' labels

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Popular snacks such as M&M's, Skittles and Doritos, which are controversial due to their high additive content, are the focus of a new bill in the US state of Texas.
Texans could soon see warning labels on popular snacks like Doritos and M&M's under a new state bill aimed at ingredients banned overseas. The measure would require labels on packaged foods containing substances "not recommended for human consumption" by authorities in Australia, Canada, the European Union or the United Kingdom.

Texas Senate Bill 25 passed the Texas Legislature and now awaits Gov. Greg Abbott's signature. If signed into law, it would take effect in 2027 and apply to newly developed product labels.

Pending legislation in Texas, Senate Bill 25, targets over 40 ingredients, including synthetic dyes and preservatives banned or restricted in Australia, Canada, the EU and the U.K.

Comment: Why wait for legislation? Just avoid fake food products as much as possible.


HAL9000

Best of the Web: Busted: The Daily Mail and X's misinformation campaign about measles

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Fake News, Psychological Bioterrorism, and Hallucinating AI

On May 31, The "Daily Mail" and the web-based news aggregator "All Sides" had articles titled: "CDC tells Americans to CANCEL their flights after finding world's most infectious disease is spreading on planes."

This is one of the most clear-cut examples of fake news being deployed in a coordinated manner to advance a psychological bioterror campaign that I have ever encountered.

These articles make outright false claims about Measles. Other terms to describe what is being done here include psychological bioterrorism, fear porn, or simply lies and disinformation. The proof of this follows. Which leads to the burning question of whether or not the notoriously censorial UK Government of Keir Starmer will do anything about it. If not, we can reasonably consider this prima facie evidence that the UK government is (at a minimum) complicit in spreading disinformation and promoting false fear of infectious disease for some hidden purpose.

Bullseye

US cancels $766 million Moderna contract to fight pandemic flu

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The Trump administration has canceled $766 million awarded to drugmaker Moderna Inc. to develop a vaccine against potential pandemic influenza viruses, including the H5N1 bird flu.

The company said it was notified Wednesday that the Health and Human Services Department had withdrawn funds awarded in July 2024 and in January to pay for development and purchase of its investigational vaccine.

The funds were awarded through the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, a program that focuses on medical treatments for potential pandemics.

The new vaccine, called mRNA-1018, used the same technology that allowed development and rollout of vaccines to fight Covid-19 in record time.

Comment:
John Fleetwood warns against an early celebration:
Is the Moderna cancellation a signal that the administration is moving away from escalating bird flu pandemic orchestration?

It's difficult to tell right now.

The unprecedented cancellation comes just after the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) quietly confirmed the federal government's plans to launch clinical trials for a "universal vaccine" for influenza in 2026 — a synthetic injection built by fusing together parts of multiple virus strains into a single dose.

It also comes after the Trump admin's recent announcement of the development of a $500 million "next-generation, universal vaccine platform" called 'Generation Gold Standard' that will focus on bird flu jab creation.

This website has been sounding the alarm since early 2024 on the government's orchestration of a coming bird flu pandemic, when we reported the USDA was simultaneously performing gain-of-function experiments on purported bird flu viruses (the problem) while developing an mRNA shot against the pathogens (the solution).

The news is welcome for those opposed to government pandemic planning.

But Moderna isn't giving up.
"While the termination of funding from HHS adds uncertainty, we are pleased by the robust immune response and safety profile observed in this interim analysis of the Phase 1/2 study of our H5 avian flu vaccine and we will explore alternative paths forward for the program," said Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel. "These clinical data in pandemic influenza underscore the critical role mRNA technology has played as a countermeasure to emerging health threats."
Earlier this month, we reported how Moderna just opened a new 290,000 sq ft facility in the U.K. that will produce up to 250 million vaccines per year.

According to Moderna's new press release, the pandemic profiteer "will explore alternatives for late-stage development and manufacturing of the H5 program consistent with the Company's strategic commitment to pandemic preparedness."

It could be that the administration is still moving forward with bird flu orchestration and merely looking at different vaccine platforms, like those utilizing "self-amplifying mRNA" (sa-mRNA) technology.

For example, Arcturus Therapeutics announced in November that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted approval for its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for ARCT-2304, a self-amplifying mRNA injection targeting the H5N1 bird flu virus.

So is this the end of bird flu pandemic orchestration — or just a pivot from Moderna's mRNA to a new wave of even more experimental, self-replicating genetic platforms?

Time will tell.

And we will be watching.



Stop

"It's good science" - CDC stops recommending COVID vaccines for healthy kids and pregnant women

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© Unknown/KJNU.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Confirming previous rumors, Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr confirmed via a post on X that the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for children or pregnant women.
"Today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from @CDCgov recommended immunization schedule.

Bottom line:
It's common sense and it's good science.

We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS 's promise to Make America Healthy Again." Today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from @CDCgov recommended immunization schedule. Bottom line: it's common sense and it's good science. We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS's promise to Make America Healthy Again. pic.twitter.com/Ytch2afCLP

— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) May 27, 2025
And cue the outrage...

Attention

A scary new "Covid" variant? What year is this?

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There's a new Covid variant "surging through" Asia, according to this headline. It has already spread to the US and Europe as well, according to this article.

I'm guessing the word "surging" was in the circulated memo, because it appears in almost every article about this.

All of which makes me ask...


This might seem like a non sequitur, but I'm going somewhere.

Did you know that Disney's cynical monetization of nostalgia has seen them so aggressively work through their back catalogue of animated classics they are now releasing a live action remake of Moana, a film that's less than ten years old, and which had an animated sequel released only last year?

Have you tried following the MCU lately? What was once a massive project of coordinated story telling, a broad church working on a shared agenda to a singular end point, has now collapsed into a shapeless, pointless exercise in repetitive re-invention, insincere self-mockery and hopelessly clumsy political messaging.

Are you seeing what I'm saying here?

Life Preserver

Vitamin D may slow biological aging and help you live longer

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© Mariya Borisova/Getty ImagesVitamin D
  • A new study suggests that vitamin D supplementation may help preserve the lengths of the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes known as telomeres.
  • Researchers say maintaining the length of telomeres may help slow some aspects of biological aging.
  • Telomere length is an important component of healthy aging, but the role vitamin D can play isn't yet certain.
A new study reports that vitamin D supplementation may help slow some of the mechanisms of biological aging.

The research, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggests that vitamin D may help maintain the stability of telomeres, the protective caps at the end of chromosomes that tend to shorten as people get older.

That shortening is a natural part of aging, but it has been linked to certain age-related diseases. Among those diseases are cancer of the bladder, lungs, kidneys, and gastrointestinal systems.

"Our findings suggest that targeted vitamin D supplementation may be a promising strategy to counter a biological aging process, although further research is warranted," said Haidong Zhu, MD, PhD, the first author of the study and a molecular geneticist at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, in a statement.

Experts agree the new research is interesting, but they note it has its limits.

Eye 1

New cells discovered in eye could help restore vision, scientists say

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© Abbestock/Getty ImagesThe findings of a new study may provide hope for patients with common eye diseases
A new study suggests that never-seen-before stem cells in the human retina can restore vision in mice with a common eye disorder. But more work is needed to translate the treatment to people.

Scientists have identified never-before-seen cells in the human eye that could potentially help reverse vision loss caused by common diseases, such as macular degeneration.

The researchers discovered the cells in the retina, a light-sensitive structure at the back of the eye that is vital for vision. The cells were found in donated samples of fetal tissue.

The scientists also identified the same cells in lab-grown models of the human retina — and when they tried transplanting those models into mice with a common eye disorder, it restored the rodents' vision.

"This research not only deepens our understanding of retinal biology but also holds immense potential for advancing therapeutic interventions in RD [retinal degeneration] diseases," the researchers wrote in a paper describing the findings, which was published March 26 in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

Comment: See also: Stem Cells Could Restore Vision After Eye Disease


Smoking

Best of the Web: The strange but true story of how smoking bans paved the way for Global Government

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After years of scamdemic hype and veiled threats, the World Health Organization (WHO) have finalized their pandemic treaty.

Formally referred to as the "WHO Pandemic Agreement," the document reflects years of wrangling, cajoling and horse trading among the globalist technocrats. And now that the negotiations are over, their control over the global health space can now be hardwired into international law.

There are reasons to be relieved that the document is not as bad as it could have been. As some are pointing out, the latest draft of the agreement has been significantly defanged, with the most egregious language about mandatory enforcement and WHO sovereignty having been removed. Even better, the relevance of this agreement to Americans has been lessened by the recent executive order withdrawing the US from the WHO.


Comment: For now.


But for those of us concerned about the establishment of world government, we are not out of the woods yet. There are provisions in this agreement that will allow the would-be global health tyrants to expand beyond the boundaries of the current draft text and to assume the dictatorial powers that their critics (like yours truly) have been warning the treaty would bestow on the WHO.

What's worse, what can be undone with the stroke of Trump's presidential pen (or robopen) can be redone with the stroke of a presidential pen (or robopen), and it would be the height of naïveté to assume that the next puppet to occupy the Oval Office won't immediately sign the US back on to the agreement.

So, is this the start of a global governmental system of technocratic health control? And, if it is, what does that mean for the future of humanity?

In order to answer that question, we're going to have to go back to the roots of the WHO's power grab. And that story, it turns out, starts in a most unexpected place . . .

Comment: More from the Corbett Report and James Corbett's associated Substack, can be found here and here.

As for the WHO, it has always had powerful backers for reasons not hard to discern:

Bill Gates has been controlling the WHO

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Despite the WHO and their push to help launch smoking bans, these bans in history go back much further, as can be read here:

Let's All Light Up!
1575: Mexico: The first recorded passing of legislation prohibiting the use of Tobacco occurs when the Roman Catholic Church passes a law which prohibits smoking in any place of worship throughout the Spanish Colonies