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Biotechnology has developed new drugs for a range of conditions, there is a catch—mammoth rates of adverse reactions. 

Guy Hatchard
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Biotechnology has developed new drugs for a range of conditions, there is a catch—mammoth rates of adverse reactions. 

Finally some NZ media articles are calling for accountability for some of the mistakes of the Covid years including the failure to warn the public of the risk of myocarditis from mRNA vaccines. In the USA, Fauci’s diaries reveal he knew about the lab origin of Covid and sought to mislead the public. Senator Rand Paul has referred Fauci to the justice department after his refusal to answer questions from a Senate committee. These small steps come after six years of persistent questioning on the part of thousands of people around the world. However, those injured still have little or in most cases no compensation or acknowledgement. More to the point, while many have been doggedly calling for accountability for Covid, some of those responsible are not just unrepentant but have, throughout the intervening six years, developed and promoted a biotech agenda fraught with novel risks to public health. 

For example, GLP-1 weight loss drugs have been hailed as a miracle medical breakthrough which will turbo charge preventive approaches to type 1 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, osteoarthritis, fatty liver disease, some cancers including breast, colorectal, uterine, kidney, and pancreatic cancers, as well as anxiety and depression linked to obesity. This is actually hope not reality.

Figures published by the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) show that they have received more than 150,000 reports of adverse reactions to the GLP-1 weight-loss drugs available through the NHS. These include liraglutide, also known as Saxenda; semaglutide, offered as Wegovy and Ozempic; and tirzepatide, also known as Mounjaro. MHRA operates a yellow card adverse reaction system which, like our NZ CARM, is known to be heavily under-reported, in some cases by a factor of ten. MHRA reported that 16,000 of the adverse reactions were rated as serious, resulting in 150 deaths to date.

There are an estimated 1.6 million people in the UK taking weight loss drugs. The MHRA figures show that at least 10% of these people suffered adverse reactions to GLP-1 drugs, almost certainly many times more. For at least 1% (1 in a hundred) these reactions are serious enough to require medical interventions. 1 in 10,000 are likely to die. These rates are staggeringly high. Before the Covid pandemic, any drug associated with these rates of adverse reactions and death would have been withdrawn from use and sale.

Instead Dr Alison Cave, the MHRA’s chief safety officer, in an act of doublespeak that defies common sense, assessed the mammoth risk rates as ‘very small’, saying: 

“Patient safety is the MHRA’s top priority and we continually monitor the safety and efficacy of all licensed medicines. For the vast majority of patients who are prescribed GLP-1s, they are safe and effective medicines, which deliver significant health benefits. The risk of developing these severe side-effects is very small, but it is important that patients and healthcare professionals are aware and alert to the associated symptoms.” 

Such smooth talking reassurances perfectly mimic the pronouncements of the drug manufacturers. A Novo Nordisk spokesperson said of its GLP-1 drugs: “At Novo Nordisk we care deeply about patient safety. Like all medicines, treatments used for chronic conditions can have side-effects, and these can vary from person to person. That is why medicines should be prescribed by, and used under the supervision of, a healthcare professional, who can consider the potential benefits and risks for each individual.”

The most common adverse symptoms of GLP-1 weight loss drugs include gastrointestinal conditions like nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, diarrhea and constipation. In more serious cases these reactions can lead to bowel obstruction, perforation or leaking through the bowel wall. Other adverse effects include bone and muscle mass loss and nutrient deficiencies. Long term changes to mental health have also been reported including anhedonia and emotional blunting—loss of pleasure or interest in regular activities, sleep disturbance, depression and anxiety associated with loss of food related emotional coping mechanisms. The most serious reactions include gallbladder problems, blindness, elevated heart rate, and necrotising pancreatitis. MHRA had logged 1,143 cases of severe pancreatitis by the start of this year resulting in 17 deaths, prompting MHRA to attach a warning to GLP-1 products. 

GLP-1 drugs function by modifying the cellular signalling and downstream gene expression of the GLP1R and GIPR genes contained in a person’s DNA, thereby altering physiological processes which control appetite. The huge range of adverse effects illustrate how an intervention designed to affect a single pathway of genetic expression can and does lead to a range of unexpected outcomes. This is because our genetic system of physiological control is multidimensional and multitasking, The simplistic notion promoted to the public that one gene causes one effect is completely wrong—a dangerous over simplification of the complexity of genetic systems

GLP-1 drugs present just one example of the changing face of medication and patient safety since the Covid era began. This represents a step away from proven solutions which really do work with high success rates free from side effects like improved diet, exercise, sunshine, fresh air, lifestyle and meditation. Just as changing the fundamental frequency of a digital watch would alter all of its functions and distort displayed readings, novel biotech drugs force our physiology to operate within biomolecular parameters far removed from previously understood physiological norms. This results in a wide range of adverse health conditions that require constant monitoring which can only be carried out by highly qualified trained health professionals. These are not safe drugs, they are ongoing experiments affecting whole populations whose outcomes should be recognisably dangerous. We are being herded into programs whereby we lose control of our body and fall into the hands of drug companies with deceptive messaging whose major focus is profit, not people.

Novo Nordisk commands resources which dwarf those of the NZ health service. It’s second-quarter 2026 adjusted operating profit reached 33.4 billion Danish kroner (approx. NZ$9.4 billion—five times the total NZ drug budget), an 11% increase driven heavily by high demand for its GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and the Wegovy weight-loss injection and new pill. GLP-1 products generate the vast majority of the company’s total revenue and profit streams. According to USA Today, some 4,400 US patients have filed lawsuits against weight-loss drug manufacturers since 2023. Test trials are not expected until 2027.

You may be horrified by the GLP-1 statistics we have presented here, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. Dozens of novel drugs that directly affect genetic expression are being approved by medical regulators without sufficient consideration of their short and long term effects. More is to come. A BBC article this week headlines “Artificial Intelligence used to design brand new viruses. The article reports the creation of 16 entirely synthetic viral bacteriophages, which were not constructed from live material found in nature. The viruses were successfully used to kill E. Coli bacteria. The plan is to develop medicines to replace antibiotics whose effectiveness is waning as drug resistant strains of bacteria develop due to overuse and insertion in the food chain. 

What could possibly go wrong? You don’t have to go far to find out, In a commentary accompanying the publication announcing the virus creation breakthrough in the journal Science, Dr Thomas Inglesby and Dr Moritz Hanke from the prestigious Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University wrote that the findings raise “urgent biosafety and biosecurity questions”. They said it was no longer a question of “whether generative viral genome design will exist” but whether it can be used without “enabling serious harm”. The public will be on the sharp end of this harm.

As many honest and dedicated campaigners are still stuck struggling to work through the fallout from the Covid virus and Covid vaccines along with the pharmaceutical PR barrage that has obscured the truth, the biotech industry is forging ahead with programs that are irrevocably altering medicine, agriculture and the processed food industry. These programs are creating novel serious risks to individual health with horrific long term consequences for public health. It is a system that became supercharged by the allure of the vast Covid era profits, built on rogue research that ignored risk and promised miracle cures unjustified by hard evidence. If it is not reigned in soon, the Covid era will soon be replayed on an even bigger stage. All the same fear tactics will be employed to manipulate acceptance of medical mandates while critics and whistleblowers are silenced. There is no time to lose.

Major Alert: A convergence of risk to mental and physical health is occurring as a range of modern technologies are implemented

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Major Alert: A convergence of risk to mental and physical health is occurring as a range of modern technologies are implemented

In this article we will look at the different ways a range of recently introduced technology is impacting our body and mind creating a perfect storm of risk—electrical, chemical, genetic and psychological. We look at possible solutions and means to protect ourselves.

Electric Fields

You may have bought a hybrid or electric car some time during the last thirty years, happy with the understanding that they are cheaper to run and better for the environment. Quite apart from what we do with the mountain of discarded electric vehicles loaded with unusual metals and chemicals once they reach the end of their life, there is another concerning feature of these cars. 

You might have often wondered why anyone would build a home under electricity pylons? Published research has failed to verify suspected links to illness, except in the case of childhood leukaemia leading the International Agency for Research on Cancer to determine there is sufficient well established evidence to label extremely low frequency fields as “possibly carcinogenic”. The get out of jail free card for the regulators is the fact that the strength of the magnetic and electric fields generated by electricity transmission lines falls off sharply over distance according to an inverse square law. So high voltage lines rated at 220,000 volts must be at least 8.5–11 meters off the ground near housing.

Conventional cars have a 12 volt battery but electric and hybrid cars operate at 400-800 volts. A Toyota Prius for example operates at 650 volts. Sitting in the car you will be within one metre of this voltage, often less. Now do the math; the magnitude of the effect at 10 metres will be 1/(20)2 = 0.0025 of the effect at half a metre. In other words 220,000 volts at 10 metres distance will have an impact equivalent to the exposure to 550 volts on some sitting positions in a hybrid or electric car. This adds another layer to the electromagnetic smog that surrounds us generated by cell phones, wireless routers and computers concentrated in cities.

It doesn’t stop there. Dental tomography, now widely used to provide 3D images of teeth, operates immediately around your head at voltages ranging from 60,000 to 120,000 volts. If you come away after a scan with the unusual feeling that someone has been messing with your brain, you are not mistaken. The inter and intra cellular communication in the human body relies on electromagnetic fields, the full extent of the effects of the exposures from hybrid and electric cars and cell phones is not widely appreciated, but as we have seen, such fields are known to be at the very least  ‘possibly carcinogenic’ and almost certainly more. A cell phone in your back pocket is affecting your reproductive organs, in your shirt pocket it is right next to your heart. If you still want to drive a hybrid car but have become worried about exposure to high electromagnetic fields, Mazda and Toyota have produced ‘mild hybrid’ cars which only reach 48 volts. From my side I would prefer we go the other way, reduce batteries from 12 volts to just 6 volts. Write to us if you have had any consistent negative experiences that you associate with driving in electric vehicles or being exposed to electric fields. Some people are more sensitive than others, but we are all being affected..

Biotechnology

Regular readers will be well aware of the risks to health arising through the implementation of novel biotechnologies in the medical, defence and food sectors. All life begins with the whole cell. The risks of biotechnology arise because in essence it involves devising means to penetrate the cell membrane and edit the fundamental structure and function of life in the DNA and cellular cytoplasm (the engine of the cell) upon which our entire mental and physical health depends.

These risks were highlighted last week when the journal Science published an article entitled “A Fatal Reaction—A cutting edge gene-editing trial in China went disastrously wrong. A family wants accountability.” A six year old girl died when she suffered a severe immune reaction a week after receiving an experimental spinal injection of edited viral material designed to penetrate the neurons in her brain and edit a single DNA base from a T to a C. The girl suffered from a rare single base pair mutation which causes learning difficulties. The parents paid the hospital US$860,000 to receive the treatment with informed consent forms stating that it would correct a small mistake in “Your child’s ‘DNA book’ which has caused a disease that affects growth, and may get serious later on”. In fact DNA is not in any way like a linear ‘book’, it is part of a multidimensional complex cellular system, in which genetic sequences have multiple roles. In other words, edit one base pair and you risk changing many physiological functions in unexpected ways. The immune system is designed to protect the integrity of the DNA and in this case a strong immune rejection led to the child’s death.

The problems with biotech experimentation have become obvious to informed independent observers: very high cost, low success rates, high rates of a wide range of adverse effects including mortality risk, immune rejection, and inherent mutagenesis. Along with this, is an industry with a huge PR budget to pull the wool over people’s eyes and push for government funding and deregulation. The onslaught of biotech PR is unrelenting. See for example this NZ Herald video “Biotech sector eyes global growth as calls grow for faster regulatory reform” in which Zara Champion from Biotech NZ calls for reduced regulation and increased government funding based on a raft of substantiated promises and a blind eye turned away from the risks. 

Artificial Intelligence 

A.I. is the perfect platform to sell an illusion. Propaganda and PR are not new to the world, they have helped to drive fraud and conflict for millennia, but the advent of A.I. tools has promoted the art of persuasion to new heights. A.I. connected to your TV, computer and cell phone can track where you are every minute of the day, the shops you visit, the subjects you are interested in and your conversations, including what you say about your health. It can then begin to shape your preferences and twist your ideas. This has had a significant impact on mental health, especially for the young. 

This manipulation is not just for commercial gain, it often polarises opinion and creates division. Your vote is at stake and in the wider world whose side you take in geopolitical, ideological, religious and ethnic conflicts. Rather than reading and thinking, we are being persuaded by simplistic slogans and promises that routinely bear little relation to scientific, economic, political, medical and historical fact. This is creating more instability in society. 

As a result, whole populations have been schooled to assimilate dangerous ideas and practices that make no sense. The ‘single podium of truth’ and ‘safe and effective’ mantras of the Covid reign seen across continents came from PR companies crafting phrases that sound reassuring, stick in the memory and demand compliance, but lack scientific legitimacy. These marketing strategies supported the economic interests of the biotech/pharma industrial complex  We are being taught to consume pills and products that often make health worse, whilst laying the blame for our woes on fictitious scenarios and scapegoats. 

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology involves manipulating matter at the nanoscale, down to 1/100,000 the width of a human hair. The aim is to create new and unique materials and products. The nano scale is not just small; it is so small that even the most powerful conventional microscopes cannot see it. Thereby the technology poses unique risks and bypasses scrutiny.

A 2025 study entitled “Nanotoxicity unveiled: Evaluating exposure risks and assessing the impact of nanoparticles on human health” discussed the growing use of nanotechnology in medicine, agriculture and the environment. It emphasises that nanoparticles can induce reactive oxygen species, triggering oxidative stress, inflammation, and disturbances in cellular antioxidant defences. Nanoparticles are hard to break down so they can build up in the environment. Their toxicity and reactivity depends on factors like size, shape and surface charge. Their small size enables them to pass critical protective barriers surrounding cells and organs, including the blood brain barrier, where they can affect genetic expression. For example lipid nanoparticles were used in mRNA Covid vaccines which enabled the spike protein to affect a range of organs including the heart, liver and the brain. The comprehensive study cited above warned that there is little regulation of the sector and concluded:

“The expanding integration of nanoparticles into biological systems has raised valid concerns regarding their potential toxicity and long-term biocompatibility.”

Food Technologies

Nano particles are widely used in food packaging, clothing treatments, and foods: 

  • Nanoclays are mixed into plastics to block oxygen and moisture, in order to give items like bottled drinks a longer shelf life. Tiny clay bits and modifier chemicals can break away from the packaging and enter foods. Once ingested they are small enough to cause cellular disruption, gut imbalance, and toxic metal exposure.
  • Silver nanoparticles are embedded in packaging and clothing to kill microbes and bacteria. From there it washes down drains where it kills beneficial bacteria and harms aquatic life. 
  • Carbon nanotubes create tiny sensors which change colour when spoiled food releases gases. Inhaling thin carbon nanotubes can cause lung inflammation, scarring (fibrosis), and tissue damage that acts very much like asbestos exposure.
  • Titanium oxide particles are used in candies like M&Ms, meat substitutes and cookies to create shiny surfaces which can be coated with vibrant colours attractive to children. Research shows it is a neurotoxin and immunotoxin, and can also damage the reproductive system, cause birth defects and damage genes.

As we have reported in our article The Extraordinary Genetically Modified Invasion of Our Supermarkets by Stealth, genetically modified microorganisms (GMMs) are used extremely widely in the food processing industry without regulation or identification on labels. The risks to health are serious. GMMs are catalytic bacterial engines specifically designed to accelerate and maximise cell proliferation. They are used in batch fermentation processes to produce food ingredients. Their residual presence equates to a risk of malignant cellular growth and interference with beneficial microbial processes in our gut.

Agriculture

Nanotechnology and biotechnology have become synonymous with the concept of agricultural sustainability. They are supposed to promote plant health and growth and protect from pests and disease. However the same problems that plague food applications are cropping up in our fields and streams. These include persistent environmental contamination of soil and water systems, cellular penetration and toxicity due to their small size leading to stunted root and shoot growth, high mobility leading to unintended spread, pest and herbicide resistance leading to higher and more toxic agri-chemical use, accumulation in plant tissue and animal flesh leading to food safety concerns and destruction of helpful soil bacteria.

A Perfect Storm

There is an old proverb that describes three types of food—bronze, silver and gold. Bronze food is what we eat, this needs to be naturally sourced and free from contamination. Silver food comprises those influences we take in through the senses. These effects are long lasting and can reappear and influence our psychological emotions and responses at later times. Gold food is the most precious, this comprises the company we keep, our family interactions, friends and working environment. This should be positive and life supporting. Modern technology has invaded all types of food. In ways that are hardly visible to the senses, mind or heart. We need to bolster our faculties of discrimination to counter these effects. We should judge information, food and perception using three criteria:

Personal Experience — Scientific Logic — Long Standing Values.

For food, ask whether our grandparents used or ate it? How does it taste, what does it contain, where did it come from, has it been tested?

For ideas, think for yourself, assess sources for reliability, analyse the conclusions, use common sense. Be awake to fact and fiction.

Good company enhances life’s journey. Where is the time for the unwanted? This extends to social media, use discrimination.

These days our government, sectors of industry, health services, multinational corporations, and even foreign powers wish to control our choices. A band of thieves may be very strong, but the raised voice of a watchman can deter their advance and frustrate their intentions. The same is true of those who continue to promote technologies that pose risks to human health, peace and well being. They may possess power and authority, but if alert and discriminating people persist in raising their voices, their success becomes difficult. Modern technology is threatening the stability of life as we have known it. If we do not raise our voice we can be overwhelmed.

Documentary exposes hidden health risks in our food chain

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Documentary exposes hidden health risks in our food chain

Australia’s ABC Four Corners has released a must see documentary on food safety entitled “We tested your groceries. This is what we found” which is now available to view on YouTube. The programme examines the deficient practices of FSANZ which governs food safety in both Australia and New Zealand. Four Corners tested a range of products from supermarket shelves including:

Tinned Tomatoes, Tomato Paste, Passata, Eggs, Seafood, Turmeric, Alcohol

It tested for country of origin, contaminants, adulteration and substitution of ingredients. It found food labelling fraud is very widespread in the processed food industry, including among our most purchased brands. It also revealed deliberate efforts by food technologists to develop food addictions to unhealthy ingredients even from an early age, along with labelling that obscures what is actually going into foods. In the program, there are interviews with a range of regulators, food testers and industry employees which reveal the wide scale of fraud.

The program found that food fraud has been on the increase since 2019. Tests identified tomatoes labelled ‘Grown in Australia’ actually produced in China using Uiger forced labour and tomato paste from Italy grown by Nigerian immigrants earning 2 or 3 Euros a day. Turmeric containing contaminants, bulking agents and even added colouring from lead chromate. Coconut milk with dairy contamination dangerous to those with allergies. Bread with iron filings. Meat from horses, cats and dogs sold as beef. Eggs labelled cage-free actually from cages. Whiskey with eight times the legal limit of highly toxic methanol contamination. Olive oil sold to the catering and restaurant industry as ‘extra virgin’ when it is actually cheaper oil disguised by green colouring. Fish labelled as locally farmed when it came from fish farms in Vietnam. Food labelled ‘100% Natural’ with artificial ingredients, and so on.

Remarkably, producers and retailers such as Woolworths and Coles contacted by the program about the alarming test results routinely refused to accept the results and acknowledge liability. FSANZ which is supposed to ensure food is safe and healthy has a Health Star Rating system scored out of five which has been ‘gamed’ by the food industry so that half of all products scoring more that 2.5 on the scale are actually unhealthy. A tiny proportion of foods sold are routinely tested. When challenged, FSANZ informed the program that their health rating system needs to take account of the needs of the food industry.

We suggest you watch the program for the details, it is a real eye opener. Alarming though the program is, our regular readers will see that it covers only a part of the problem, regulators are allowing high herbicide and pesticide content to go unlabelled while genetically engineered ingredients and processing aids posing unquantified health risks are being widely used without identification.

Our average Kiwi diet now includes 50% ultra processed foods which are causing a range of health problems. Moreover the problems especially affect our youth, undermining their health, longevity and behaviour. The take home lesson of the programme should be that fresh whole unprocessed local ingredients, preferably organic, win every time when it comes to food safety and nutrition.

An unwanted future is taking shape as biotechnology experimentation proliferates

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An unwanted future is taking shape as biotechnology experimentation proliferates

The media needs to cover new research findings

Regular readers will be aware that for the last five years we have been warning of serious risks associated with biotechnology experimentation. We have documented risks being generated in the agricultural sector, the public health arena and the defence research establishment associated with the introduction of genetically modified components. We have made it a policy to reference our concerns to research papers published in scientific journals. This article will examine the possible extent of these risks and the likely effects for individual, national and geopolitical affairs.

Last week there were newspaper reports published in NZ when Billy TK was hospitalised after suffering a heart attack labelling him a Covid conspiracist. Far from offering appropriate support and understanding, these reports were remarkable for the vehemence of the attacks on Billy TK because he spoke out during the pandemic about the dangers of mRNA vaccination. Apparently, the media has failed to make any effort to update its rushed compliance with government pandemic policy. As we have been reporting, published research in reputable journals has reversed many of the hasty opinions formed during the pandemic under a blanket of fear and a barrage of misinformed publicity. It should now be clear there are elevated risks of cancer, heart disease, immune deficiency, neurological disease and mental illness associated with mRNA vaccination. This evidence includes massive retrospective studies of the subsequent health care utilisation records of whole populations (see here for example).

It is clear that there is a social media and mainstream media consensus concerning the supposed value of gene based medicine. It is very hard to go against this consensus because it is so entrenched in the public psyche. Its roots go back to the introduction of so called miracle medical cures for diseases like smallpox, tuberculosis and polio that did not actually involve gene therapy. The deceptively rosy aura surrounding gene medicine is continually bolstered by public relations pronouncements promising imminent cures for diseases like cancer and other serious illnesses which never actually eventuate. In reality gene therapies represent a structural break with past medical approaches and they carry novel serious risks. Despite the 75 years that have elapsed since the discovery of DNA, gene therapies remain plagued by adverse effects and the absence of any genuine success. Nor are the risks confined to medical biotechnology, as we have reported they extend to the replacement of traditional food ingredients, additives and processing aids with gene altered components. The press and the ill-informed social consensus have failed to take account of the novelty and the risks to the health of society at large.

Biotechnology defence programs are creating global risks

Given the overwhelming suspicion and consensus that Covid itself escaped from a lab where it had been artificially created, it is remarkable that foolhardy genetic gain of function experiments are continuing in nations around the globe under biosafety protocols that are far from safe, nor likely to ever be so. A report published on July 17 by Paul D Thacker on Substack highlights safety concerns and deficiencies at the US NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratory (RML), a virology research lab which studies the world’s most lethal pathogens—such as Ebola, the highly infectious Coxiella Burnetii (an intracellular bacterium that causes Q fever), Tularemia (a tick borne disease known as rabbit fever) and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. RML operates under the highest Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4), but a whistleblower has revealed that RML has no viable control plan if a researcher is accidentally exposed to something, as happened last November when a monkey infected with Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV) bit a worker. The resulting confusion revealed the extreme inadequacies of RML safety protocols, reminiscent of the haphazard and wholly ineffective response when Covid escaped from the Wuhan Virology Lab after workers suffered Covid infections as early as November 2019 which rapidly spread throughout the city and beyond to the world.

The whistleblower reported that the administration at RML wants workers to continue their work at level 4 “no matter the cost, because they think it’s the most important work on the planet—that must be done, no matter what it takes.”

Research at RML is considered to be of the highest priority because it is part of the US effort to develop bioweapon defence programs. The stated aim is ‘Countermeasure Development’. The urgency and fear arises because no genuinely effective and foolproof countermeasures have been discovered to date. Scientists at RML study high-consequence and maximum-containment pathogens in an effort to develop diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics. In fact, the line between bioweapon development and countermeasures is a very fine one indeed. In order to test supposed countermeasures, researchers must first produce examples of bioweapons themselves. Therefore safety inadequacies are tantamount to a ticking time bomb for global disaster. It doesn’t stop at RML, multiple countries and labs around the world are doing similar research often in even more insecure facilities. The resulting proliferation of risk resembles the spread of a global disease. What could possibly go wrong?

Biotechnology accidents can devastate society

If in fact new biological threats escape into wider populations, by the ready mobility of genetic material they will not be able to be recalled, contained or remediated. As happened with Covid, they could spread without limit and their effects will be be long lasting. Moreover, if present unsafe genetic experimentation continues, it is not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’. It is quite possible, if not likely, that the resulting ‘pandemic’ will be far more serious and deadly than Covid.

When this happens, we can imagine that cities will be the least safe environments in which to live. Cities are natural breeding grounds for pollution, surveillance, contagion and enforcement. Panicked thinking will drive events. Reliance on faulty WHO and government responses cemented by historical misunderstandings dating from the Covid era could rapidly take over. In the atmosphere of fear that a new pandemic will generate, whole populations could be manipulated and coerced into compliance with hurried medical responses like the mRNA vaccines. These had little or no success but almost certainly compounded damage to health. 

Given research on vaccine delivery systems currently taking place, measures taken during a future pandemic may include air borne interventions, changes to water systems or additions to the food chain that will affect the whole population whether they choose to participate or not. The whole cycle of mandates and restrictions could reappear overnight without serious consideration of the adverse consequences. These should be apparent but only if the government, the media and the medical establishment update their analysis of Covid pandemic research findings. Unfortunately the approving consensus surrounding biotechnology has elevated it to the status of a proto-religion which has been accorded an unquestioned and untouchable status in the minds of many. The articles attacking Billy TK at a time when sympathy and support is called for, illustrate how deeply false prejudice and historical government misunderstandings remain stored in the national psyche.

Events may acquire the characteristics of global conflict

The Covid pandemic has ushered in an era of concern and dis-ease which is showing no signs of wholly dissipating. Life has not returned to a genuine sense of normality. There has been a proliferation of extreme opinions and an increased polarisation of extreme ideas. These can be misguided, unscientific or irrational without supporting evidence, along with calls to impose these on other individuals and groups. This is reminiscent of the confusion and instability that arose in the 1930s. Potentially a war is on the horizon, but not a war like previous wars. Each successive wave of global conflict reveals new weapons that displace those of previous conflicts. Whether biotechnology will feature in any future conflict is unknown, but seems increasingly likely. 

Therefore it is a matter of the greatest urgency to update our understanding of the fundamentals of life. Gene modifications tinker with the foundations of life and pose dangers of the highest order. Reading between the lines, there are some faint signs of growing misgivings and a realisation of the limitations of our current simplistic genetic paradigm. A recent interview with the Nobel Prize winning geneticist and discoverer of CRISPR gene editing, Jennifer Doudna, reveals seeds of discontent with the claims of large A.I. companies and Big Pharma that miracle cures are just around the corner. In fact, as we have reported, the most recent discoveries point to fundamental limitations to simple interpretations of genetic systems. The sooner these implications filter into government policy, the better. Commenting on the Doudna interview, prominent biosafety expert Richard H Ebright commented :

“Doudna is correct. Hype about A.I. ‘solving biology’ or ‘revolutionising drug discovery’ is scientifically illiterate and scientifically unsound nonsense. Companies founded on such hype will fail. Investments based on such hype will tank.” 

Despite the hope that the biotechnology ‘safe and effective’ bubble may burst (see here for growing moves by the US justice system to bring those involved with Covid origins to account), concerns like Ebright’s are not enough, risky biotechnology experimentation has to cease and the public must be properly informed of the risks so that they can make the correct ballot box decisions. The media carries the burden of responsibility to get real about reputable research pointing to serious adverse health risks.

High risk biotechnology experimentation is gathering pace

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High risk biotechnology experimentation is gathering pace

Much loved Kiwi actor Sam Neill has died suddenly. In March 2023 Neill announced he had been diagnosed with Stage 3 angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (a rare form of blood cancer) the previous year. Neill underwent chemotherapy which failed to stem the cancer progression so he switched to bi-weekly infusions of a rare specialised anti-cancer drug which initially showed promise, until it too failed. In 2025-2026 Neil enrolled in an experimental CAR T-cell gene therapy trial in Australia. This involved harvesting his own T-cells, genetically modifying them using viral vectors to program them to target his specific cancer type and then replacing them into his body. In April 2026 Neill announced that he was cancer free. Current newspaper articles report that during the last few weeks Neill had been suffering from pneumonia. His immediate cause of death has not yet been announced.

Neill hoped that the publicity surrounding his illness would lead to more government support for CAR T-cell gene therapy treatment. According to an article in Nature, CAR T-cell therapy costs about NZ$820,000 per shot. 85% of patients go into initial remission but only just over half of them are still in remission at the end of the first year. CAR T-cell therapy is not without serious risk. It can cause severe side effects, including cytokine release syndrome (CRS), a dangerous inflammatory response that ranges from mild flu-like symptoms in less severe cases to multi-organ failure and even death. The Nature article reports that with a combination of newer powerful adjunct drug regimes and vigilance, a team of attending doctors is required to try to work out how far to push treatment without triggering CRS.

Neill may have not been fully aware of research which shows that genetic modification therapies including CAR T-cell treatment can leave patients immunocompromised. You may have seen the recent article reprinted by Stuff newspaper “‘Biohacker’ Bryan Johnson diagnosed with incurable disease. We mentioned Bryan Johnson last year in our article “The Big Debate: How Many New Doctors Will NZ Need if the Gene Technology Bill is Passed?“. Johnson is a 48 year old billionaire who employs 30 doctors to manage his health using biotechnology. He takes 91 pills each day and undergoes intravenous infusions and blood transfusions. Last year he boasted he only ages 8 months for each calendar year he lives. A Netflix documentary about him failed to mention the extreme risks involved in his search for the elusive elixir of eternal life. In his latest report Johnson reveals that he has developed an incurable autoimmune form of gastritis (AIG) whereby his stomach is eating itself. This not the first hiccup in Johnson’s journey, previous biotech interventions had to be abandoned after damaging his health.

“AIG causes irreversible damage: nutritional deficiency, anaemia, and over a long horizon, elevated cancer risk,” the Silicon Valley mogul wrote recently on social media.

Bryan Johnson has a huge cult following who admire him as a pioneer guinea pig working for the future benefit of mankind. Judging by some of the adoring and encouraging comments on his social media page, they have swallowed Johnson’s belief that AIG must have developed as a result of some fast food he ate in his youth. Johnson’s adherents may not be aware of multiple studies showing that autoimmune conditions can develop in response to gene therapies. The recognised mechanisms include: 

  • Viral vectors designed to ‘carry’ genetic inserts can be rejected by the immune system leading to inflammatory conditions.
  • Foreign proteins created by inserted genetic material can be attacked by the immune system leading to targeted immune destruction.
  • Insertional Mutagenesis: Gene therapies utilising integrating vectors (like retroviruses) can disrupt normal gene regulation, potentially leading to cancerous transformations or abnormal immune dysregulation.

As was the case with the Covid vaccine, gene therapy can lead to long term production of foreign proteins by a proportion of the body’s own cells which have been genetically transformed. As a result, a permanent state of autoimmune rejection can be created whereby the body is fighting itself, resulting in immune exhaustion, tissue inflammation and run on disease manifestation including cancers. 

Ten years ago the proximate death of a participant in a gene therapy trial such as Sam Neill would have led to the long term suspension of the trial pending an exhaustive investigation into the possible causes and risks. This is no longer the case. Very high levels of risk, including unassessed long term hazards to human health particular to highly mobile genetic sequences, no longer trigger pauses in the rapid growth of biotechnology experimentation.

Johnson fits into an erroneous view about life that is increasingly receiving wide publicity—the idea that the complex structure of our genome is the result of random events and is actually very inefficient, hampered by historical accidental pathways of evolution. According to this misguided belief system, which is shared by some leading researchers, biotechnologists should be able to redesign human physiology to work more simply and efficiently. Some articles published during the last couple of years predict that by the year 2036, transhuman gene therapy will be routine. This is pure fantasy. As we reported in our most recent article “The Long Read: There is already enough evidence to design a health policy that works“, our present knowledge of genetic function is very incomplete. Sober assessments published in the scientific literature such as “Gene Therapy in Rare Genetic Disorders: Current Progress and Future Perspectives admit to unsolved, stubborn problems with immune rejection which are indicative of the body’s own genetic intelligence working to protect its essential integrity from invasive gene therapy vectors.

In parallel with the development of experimental gene therapy techniques, there is a growing realisation that gene therapy can alter human psychology. This can affect an individual’s sense of self and identity, which may manifest as imposter syndrome or alienation. In other words, just as the immune system can attack transformed genetic structures and byproducts, so can conflicts arise within the self as a result of gene therapies, characterised by psychological impairment of function, emotion or intelligence.

In fact our DNA is part of a much wider system rooted in the unified level of natural law identified by theoretical physics which is recognised to have the self-referral qualities of human awareness. From this perspective, our fundamental physiological structure cannot be regarded as random or inefficient, it is the vehicle which supports the highly sophisticated and unique expression of consciousness. The physiological expression of the faculties of identity (ego), intellect (decision-making), mind (thinking) and the five senses (channels of perception) is not a random occurrence, as we discussed in our article “The Structure of Consciousness” it is the material expression of consciousness knowing itself.

Contemplate for a moment what has already been ventured and what is planned for the future in the field of biotechnology not forgetting the disastrous 30 million excess deaths during the pandemic documented by Our World in Data. Biotechnology researchers are busy planning and enacting experiments which will affect the whole world’s population without possibility of containment, recall, or remediation. Here in NZ as we lumber towards another election, we can ponder the lack of any clear understanding about the risks and dangers of biotechnology on the part of political parties who are currently planning to approve GE liberalisation and ramp up funding. This mimics a worldwide trend. It seems as if biotechnology experimentation at home and in the world at large is drifting towards disaster. If you have visited Niagara Falls you will be familiar with the syndrome, the current can grip unwary boats and gather pace in the race to the precipice. Immediate evasive action is required.

A year ago in our article “Two Roads Diverged in a Wood” we compared the lymphoma cancer rates in NZ (12.5 cases per 100,000, the highest in the world) and Bhutan (0.65 cases per 100,000, 19 times less than NZ). Bhutan has a policy of fully supporting organic agriculture with a goal of 100% organic production. In our latest article “The Long Read: There is already enough evidence to design a health policy that works” we reiterated the need to move on from health policies that are favouring promotion of costly high risk biotechnologies. Instead, there is abundant research which shows simple natural approaches to health like the promotion of organic agriculture, fresh diets, exercise and meditation can have very broad spectrum positive effects on national health and well being without adverse effects or significant expenditure. We need to learn from the last few years. Our challenge is to educate the population and the government.

The Long Read: There is already enough evidence to design a health policy that works

Guy Hatchard
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The Long Read: There is already enough evidence to design a health policy that works

On the 25th January 2026, two men stepped off an arriving plane at Detroit Metropolitan Airport en route from the Congo carrying a black case. At the border they declared that the case contained instruments, but customs officials found it contained vials of Monkeypox virus and human DNA in violation of federal law. Both men worked at the National Institute of Health (NIH) Rocky Mountain Laboratory where one of them was Chief of the Virus Ecology Section in charge of research on “emerging viral pathogens”. Given their seniority, they should have been well aware of the risks, but both men appeared to have difficulty understanding that there are very common circumstances where airplane luggage is damaged, potentially exposing passengers and ultimately the public to deadly pathogens. They even protested that what they were doing was routine. Which goes to show just how much dangerous behaviour in the biotech research community has become normalised. On June 2nd the two men were indicted on serious criminal charges. 

The incident in Detroit is not an isolated event, a pathological culture of extreme risk has taken hold of the entire biotechnology industry with an entrenched assumption that biotech research and many products should be exempt from regulation. In effect, anything goes. In part, this is due to the sense of excitement and hype that surrounds the as-yet-unrealised (and unrealistic) expectation that biotech research will ultimately lead to miracle cures for a long list of human diseases and environmental problems. It is also due to a failure to face up to known serious risks, particularly those that showed up during the Covid pandemic. At its core, the biotech industry has an almost messianic belief in its mission to edit life as it sees fit in pursuit of its improbable dreams that are actually fraught with danger for the whole human race. This verges on the psychopathic.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

Biotechnologists are faced with a long list of unknowns and unknowables that they seem determined to ignore. The foremost of these is how our genome supports our consciousness. You couldn’t devise a bigger hole in our understanding of life than that. Editing genes before you know how they might affect our ability to think, is like sawing through the tree branch on which we sit.

The scale of the ignorance about genetic functions is mind bogglingly huge. Last week the NY Times interviewed John Glass, a synthetic biologist at the prestigious J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, Calif. for an article entitled “This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade“, Glass said: “Our own DNA contains tens of thousands of genes, as well as millions of molecular switches turning those genes on and off. Scientists barely have a clue as to what many of those pieces of DNA are doing.”

Yet somehow, editing the structure and function of DNA is routinely designated safe and sure to be the only future remedy for ill health

To begin to get a handle on the vast gaps in our knowledge about genetic function, in the 1990s, a team led by the late biologist Craig Venter began studying the simplest microbe they could find. It had fewer than 1,000 genes. The team, now led by Dr. Glass went on to strip the microbe’s genome down to 525 essential genes. In 2016 after 26 years of research, the team reported it didn’t know what a third of those genes were doing. Dr. Glass and his colleagues have spent the subsequent decade trying to solve the puzzle (30 years in all), and they still can’t say what 56 of them do.“There are still significant tasks that every cell has to do that we don’t know,” Dr. Glass said.

Diseases arising from Covid vaccine technology are being identified even now

An article published in the journal Oncotarget is entitled “COVID vaccination and post-infection cancer signals: Evaluating patterns and potential biological mechanisms“. It studied the results of 60 papers linking cancer incidence with Covid vaccination. It identified several recurrent themes: 

(1) unusually rapid progression, recurrence, or reactivation of preexisting cancer in remission or previously only slowly developing, 

(2) atypical or localised tissue findings, including involvement of vaccine injection sites or regional lymph nodes, 

3) immune system deficiencies associated with vaccination and tumour reactivation.

In other words, there is strong evidence that ‘Covid vaccine-induced turbo cancers’ do exist. The study found that cancer occurrence and/or acceleration can develop relatively quickly in even a matter of weeks following mRNA vaccination. The authors concluded “there is a need for rigorous epidemiologic, longitudinal, clinical, histopathological, forensic, and mechanistic studies to assess whether and under what conditions COVID-19 vaccination may be linked with cancer.”

A study published in Medical Research Archives is entitled  “Temporal patterns of all-cause mortality among U.S. nursing home residents across COVID-19 vaccination strata, May 2022-June 2023“. It analysed mortality patterns in more than 15,000 US nursing homes and found:

“All cause mortality rates rose during weeks with more COVID 19 positive residents. Relative to unvaccinated residents, mortality elevations persisted for about three weeks in partially vaccinated and five weeks in fully vaccinated groups.”

In other words, Covid-vaccinated rest home residents were affected by elevated mortality rates following Covid infection for far longer than unvaccinated residents.

Elevated mortality associated with Covid vaccination is not limited to rest home residents. Steve Kirsch writing on Substack notes that Covid national vaccination programmes were followed by peaks in all cause mortality among all age groups in countries across the globe. In other words, Covid vaccination not only didn’t work, it came with unquantified risks to health and life. Unquantified because biotech scientists across the globe are reluctant to admit that they got anything wrong during the pandemic. Counterfactual findings are simply ignored if they don’t fit the ‘rosy future’ paradigm of biotech hype.

Forging ahead to make artificial life out of viral DNA

The NY Times reports that a team of synthetic biologists at the University of Minnesota have succeeded in throwing together a mixture of proteins, simple molecules that are known to operate in natural cells, and 36 genes extracted from bacteria and viruses to produce a kind of artificial cell that competes for food and reproduces itself through a lab-enforced process that mimics cell division. There are some severe limitations, the cells can’t make their own proteins known as ribosomes which read the DNA to produce proteins and they cease functioning entirely within 5 to 10 generations. Biotechnologists are so excited they plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars further developing these synthetic cells dubbed SpudCells. 

It is believed that at some time in the future these cells will be used to eat up the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The cell’s inventors have already warned that someone may use artificial cells to create a biological weapon. Step back and consider, fragments of DNA culled from pathogenic bacteria and viruses are being given a new lease of life in artificial cells. All this is happening while scientists don’t know how these synthetic cells might interact with the natural environment and what the extent of the risks might be. Perhaps they might out-compete natural cells essential to maintain ecological stability or human health. No one knows or can even begin to predict what might happen. And those involved still want the freedom to self-regulate their experimentation.

Apparently in sympathy, poorly informed legislators across the globe are rushing to deregulate biotechnology experimentation under the mistaken idea that it has already saved lives and will usher in an era of economic prosperity. The latest to go down this rabbit hole is the EU which is deregulating biotechnology using the infantile Simon Says justification—other countries are doing it, so we should too. In New Zealand, the National Party is fuming because its attempt to pass a Gene Tech Bill that mandated NZ approval if any other countries did, has been frustrated by its coalition partner NZ First who asked some inconvenient questions about safety, science and economic miracles. Segueing to avoid this roadblock, National is already in the process of amending existing legislation and regulations to open the back door to largely unfettered gene experimentation. What could possibly go wrong? Given the huge holes in our understanding of genetic functions, almost everything. 

Take the case of the Tunisian soccer team at the World Cup in Mexico, eight players tested positive for a banned synthetic bodybuilding substance clenbuterol, but this was not secretly administered to the team or deliberately ingested by the players. On investigation it was found that the substance is approved in Mexico and routinely given to animals. Thereby it accumulates in meat in the food chain, in concentrations sufficient to trigger drug tests. Clenbuterol significantly alters genetic expression by binding to β₂-adrenergic receptors. Thereby it sets intracellular cascades in motion that turn specific genes associated with metabolism on or off. You can immediately see that predicating gene regulation on what other countries do, can rapidly lead to genetic pollution in the world’s food chain. In fact, this is already happening on a grand scale and needs to stop.

Biotechnology has become too big to fail. 

Over the last few weeks we have been publishing articles at the Hatchard Report and on our Substack channel which examine recent research and established theoretical principles which point to the central role of consciousness in biological processes. This should not seem strange to any one, awareness is the central substance of our daily existence. Observer, observed and the process of observation are linked together within the wholeness of our being. As we pointed out in our articles “How does DNA actually work?” and “The Structure of Consciousness“, this three in one structure forms a kind of intelligence which cannot be mimicked by A.I.. How our DNA supports the expression of consciousness is unknown, yet the biotechnology juggernaut continues to believe it has discovered the stand alone secret of life in the DNA code. 

More to the point, as we investigated in our article “The Sacred Cell and Conscious Genes“, the actual operation of DNA is now known to have abstract field-like properties that cannot be explained by a linear code. When Galileo saw the moons of Jupiter through his telescope, the self-appointed guardians of science embedded in the church hierarchy looked through the lens and said they saw nothing. The rich world of consciousness-based medicine that lies behind and beyond the incomplete paradigm of DNA is being ignored, despite the evidence of its high efficacy building up. A wicked leader in antiquity is recorded as saying “I know what is right but I can’t bring myself to do it, I know what is wrong but I can’t refrain from it”. There comes a point in every incomplete scientific paradigm when progress can only be made when its inadequacies are admitted. Eventually after a period of crisis this old order will be overtaken by revolutionary new ideas. We only hope that realisation dawns before biotech mistakes like those of the Covid era again engulf the world.

What are the health problems biotechnology is promising to solve and how can they actually be solved?

The leading causes of mortality world-wide come from the threat of chronic non-communicable diseases like heart disease, cancer, diabetes and respiratory illness. Other major illnesses include infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, dengue, ebola, and recurring viral outbreaks which pose massive public health threats. Mental ill health and substance abuse have surged globally. Environmental problems like food security, air quality and access to clean water are particularly associated with poverty and displacement. You are probably aware of studies that we have extensively reported which have shown that many if not most of these conditions became elevated during the Covid pandemic driven by either Covid infection, which is now almost universally recognised as emerging from a biotech lab, or by adverse reactions to Covid vaccination. Relying on biotech experimentation to save the world and cure disease is not a safe bet. 

Moreover the biotech industry has become heavily involved with global food production and processing. Ultra processed foods linked to ill health along with agri-chemicals and crops now almost universally contain genetically modified components. In contrast, diets rich in natural fresh foods are linked with improved health and increased longevity. Likewise exercise, fresh air, sunshine and clean water. These are the components of a healthy society that the biotech industry is wantonly polluting with genetically modified components.

As we have reported extensively, simple meditation is linked with holistic improvements in health outcomes. This is because consciousness plays a holistic leading role in human physiology. For example a five year study of the health insurance utilisation of 2000 people practicing transcendental meditation published in 1987 found inpatient admissions per 1000 were lower for the TM group than the norm for all of 17 major medical treatment categories, including -55.4% for benign and malignant tumours -87.3% for heart disease, -30.4% for all infectious diseases, -30.6% for all mental disorders, and -87.3% for diseases of the nervous system. Numerous other studies since have found comparable results including recent research finding biomarkers of younger biological age among meditators. 

In conclusion, there are well tested and cost-effective drivers of improved health known to science which are being ignored in favour of dangerous and expensive biotech interventions being developed by an industry whose knowledge base is limited and whose primary driver is profit before people. Billions of dollars being spent on biotech research including government funding, private investment and corporate profits would be better spent on promoting proven natural solutions. Numerous studies show there would be an instant improvement in mental and physical public health outcomes, quality of life and well being for all age groups—children, adults and the retired. Governments have been sidetracked by baseless promises, it’s time to get real.

How does DNA actually work?

Guy Hatchard
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How does DNA actually work?

You have probably heard computer analogies used to explain how DNA works. Computers have properties that are fixed by precise programming and hardware. In these analogies, DNA is characterised as a set of complex instructions which are transcribed into proteins which in turn perform physiological functions that are specified by the genetic sequences stored in the DNA. Thus the public have come to think of DNA as a set of instructions or a static blueprint which initiates actions rather like a coded computer programme. As a result, the idea that editing this blueprint can be a straightforward, safe, technological process has entered the public psyche. Accumulating research findings are suggesting this idea is outdated, misleading and fraught with risk.

An article was published by Quanta Magazine on June 18 entitled “Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI”. In our article today we are going to unpack the implications and draw a fresh analogy to aid our understanding.

Dr. Wendy Bickmore is a genomic researcher at the University of Edinburgh and former president of the Genetics Society. She has been investigating how DNA sequences are folded into chromosomes. In each cell, humans have about 2 metres of DNA but the width of a cell is at least 10,000 times smaller than the width of your forefinger. The cell nucleus containing the DNA is 10 times smaller again. It turns out that the way our DNA is folded into this nanoscopic nuclear space modifies how it functions. Bickmore has found that it is not just the information encoded in the DNA that determines how DNA functions but also how it exists physically and dynamically in space-time. 

“We’ve stopped thinking about the genome as a linear piece of DNA code,” Bickmore said. “Thinking about this incredibly dynamic three-dimensional folding as absolutely inherent to regulation is a very exciting change.”

When DNA is folded to fit into the nucleus, with the help of some proteins called histones, it is known as Chromatin. Chromatin is organised into compartments which have a 3D topological structure which regulates genes into groups which function together and can be turned off and on. Cohesin is a circular protein which shuffles chromatin into groups, but this is not a static arrangement, a dynamic process involving cohesin constantly rearranges chromatin in and between groups affecting the expression and function of DNA.

Shape is not the only factor at play, small epigenetic (literally from outside the genome) marker molecules alter configurations of electrical charge which rejigs how chromatin is packaged which in turn changes the meaning and function of the DNA script. How and when these markers get added or changed remains a mystery, but clearly the DNA sequences are not stand alone strands of information.

When DNA is transcripted it forms mRNA (a messenger molecule), once this happens, there is still a great deal of regulation which occurs. This is carried out by microRNAs and spliceosomes which function in groups and undertake multiple roles including modifying, splicing, reorganising, editing, degrading and/or silencing mRNA. MicroRNA and spliceosomes are on the spot to decide if the mRNA is really needed to carry out a function in the context of what is going on and needed in real time. In other words, there are adaptive and responsive processes which naturally edit the instructions of the DNA.

These regulatory processes occur in the mechanical, vibratory, chemical, electromagnetic and aqueous environment of the cell which each play a vital role. Moreover these are hugely influenced by diet, environment, microbiome, behaviours, environment and crucially consciousness. All told, these processes show that the genome is not an automatic process like a computer code running in the background to keep us alive, growing and healthy. Cells are making autonomous decisions about how to use and modify not just the information in the DNA but also the shape and structure it assumes and crucially factors that lie outside of the genome.

American computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter has described the genomic system as a recursive, self-referential system—it acts on itself, mindful of its own history. The information system that guides cells is spread out further and further from the DNA itself. Moreover, it is not strictly an information system, it is a decision-making system. It does not predictably generate the same outcome in every situation. It can think for itself. At this point it is clear that the cellular system does not work like a computer system. The Quanta article concludes that closed algorithm AI systems will not be able to reproduce the intelligence that guides the cell which operates under an open self-referral system. There is no human technology that works in this way except the whole human physiology itself. As Harvard geneticist Karen Adelman summarised the new understanding:  “the genome isn’t static, it’s living.”

It has proved impossible for geneticists to pinpoint any one system, set of rules, place or sequence which governs life. The cellular genomic system takes decisions in an abstract space extended over space and time. This is the hallmark of consciousness. The fact that our consciousness can instantly feel a pinprick at any point in the body demonstrates that it too exists in an extended abstract space. You cannot pinpoint consciousness to a space.

So what is the new analogy for the genome? We don’t have to look very far from home. A government is bound by a constitution and time honoured practice, but itself constantly creates new laws. It has departments which often function autonomously over an extended space and time. It responds to its population just as the genomic system responds to the vast physiological organisation of organ systems, perceptions, behaviours, foods, environment, etc. and crucially states of consciousness. Every government functions under a head of state, the head of state of the genome is not just individual consciousness but above that universal consciousness—the home of all the laws of nature, as we have discussed in our recent Substack articles The Sacred Cell and Conscious Genes and The Structure of Consciousness  and our Hatchard Report article “The Hand of God: A philosophical, spiritual and scientific critique of the direction of biotechnology research“.

This article is not just a review of the findings of recent biological research, but it is also a warning that we need to update our understanding of life and control unfettered biotechnology experimentation on the genome and the food chain. A study published on 22 June in Nature Medicine is entitled “Biological aging and generational shifts in early-onset cancer risk“. It reports a study of 154,000 young adults in the UK which found that their cells are ageing faster than those of their parents’ generation, exposing them to increased risk of cancer. 

This shows that the stability and adaptability of our extended genomic and immune system is coming under increased stress for multiple reasons. We live in an extended biofield. This ranges from food systems to environmental and cultural influences. We have entered a period of rapid change, novel technology is changing every level of our existence from the microscopic world of genetic systems to the macroscopic biosphere and everything in between. This has proved to be an assault on the foundation of life. Most at risk is the health of the growing generation who readily adopt new norms of food and behaviour which exposes them to a polluted environment, including the electromagnetic, chemical, social and intellectual environments. It is our responsibility to educate the next generation, the future leaders of society, to understand the dangers of structural changes to naturally ordered systems. Biotechnology and genetic engineering can’t be our future. Education systems should range from natural unadulterated food options to lifestyle options to cleaner environments and the self-management of choice. This is our best defence. 

The Hand of God: A philosophical, spiritual and scientific critique of the direction of biotechnology research

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The Hand of God: A philosophical, spiritual and scientific critique of the direction of biotechnology research

This article addresses some of the most profound philosophical and spiritual questions that we ask as we seek to understand our existence. It challenges some popular notions that have derived from the discoveries of Darwin and modern genetics, from the perspective of an interdisciplinary comprehensive scientific understanding.

On June 5 a paper was published by the prestigious journal Cell entitled “Replaying germinal center evolution on a quantified affinity landscape“. It describes how a specific type of stem cell operating in germinal centres (GCs) tackle the process of generating and selecting appropriate antibodies that are suited to tackle novel pathogens. According to the paper, which is couched in terminology that is unfamiliar and therefore inaccessible to the casual lay reader, germinal centres rapidly generate a large number of antibody types through random hyper genetic mutation and then monitor the multiplicity of types to ‘select’ those that have the greatest ‘affinity’ or specific ability to recognise and bind to an invading pathogen.

The study leads the authors to conclude that this natural process is not as efficient as it could be. Our germinal centres (GCs) miss a great many antibodies with high affinity due to what the authors describe as limitations of the GC’s own genetic make up. However, because a very large number of mutations of differing types are being continuously generated by GCs, these limitations are bypassed through the continuing repetition of mutational processes over time. This yields the very high success rate of our immune system in generating appropriate responses to disease.

Through genetic modification the authors produced around 100 identical B cells operating in the GCs of 24 mice. The mice were then injected with a pathogen in order to stimulate a race to produce an efficient immune response. The study followed the GC production in the mice of a total of 17,500 antibodies of great variety over a 20 day period. GC production sequences involved both bursts of large numbers of similar B cell types and highly mutated branched topological evolutionary B cell lineages. These sequences and types were scanned to evaluate the evolutionary outcomes over time. The study found that identically engineered GCs do not produce the same sequences of antibodies. The authors propose this is best described as a random Darwinian evolutionary process, whereby the fittest genetic mutations are suited (or in evolutionary language selected) to survive.

Based on their research, the authors constructed a quantified model of  cellular ‘deep mutational scanning’ (DMS) which they believe may be used to develop new antibody medicines and vaccines. They propose this may allow the design of effective immune responses which in the natural course of events might have been discarded or overlooked by natural cell-based immune processes. In other words, through the application of computer or AI based DMS models, the prolific antibody production of genetically modified GCs might be rapidly and accurately predicted to reveal novel medicines and vaccines paired to specific diseases, which can then be produced in a laboratory through genetic modification.

There is a subtext in this paper, laboratory experiments aimed at developing vaccines and antibody medicines which initiate and analyse random genetic mutations on a large scale are OK because that is essentially an entirely natural process. What could possibly go wrong? 

Darwin and the perspective of biophysics 

The conception and import of the word ‘random’ as used in this study appears to be deficient. The process of B cell generation being investigated is described as a ‘local’ process. In other words, cells are regarded as autonomous entities whose internal processes can be treated as stand alone events which culminate in a specific outcome, in much the same way as we think of the spin of a roulette wheel. Hence the appeal to Darwin, but does this stand up to scrutiny? Are the findings of the study a killer argument to settle any debate about the existence of a designed universe or God, or are they merely being interpreted superficially? 

Our readers will realise that the appeal to Darwinian evolution is generally interpreted as a win for an atheist perspective. Darwin himself famously lost his faith as a result of his discoveries. Prof. Richard Dawkins will be visiting NZ in November to speak on his particular view of the world—the belief that the universe and our human body are standalone systems that leave little room for spiritual or theistic notions.

Dawkins goes to great lengths to find scientific arguments that he believes render any belief in God unscientific. Delving into his understanding of the genetic code—DNA, in his book The Greatest Show on Earth Dawkins presents one argument for atheism based on invariance.

“Just as the vertebrate skeleton is invariant across all vertebrates…so the DNA code is invariant across all living creatures while the genes themselves vary….which shows more clearly than anything else that all living creatures are descended from a single ancestor.”

In other words, Dawkins believes that a single random event or sequence of events led to the accidental creation of life. Realising that proponents of both a Godless world and creationists will each interpret invariance as evidence for their ideas. Dawkins offers the additional idea that evolution is a strictly ‘local’ process:

“Embryology is all done by local rules, at various levels, but especially the level of the single cell. No choreographer. No conductor of the orchestra. No central planning. No architect. In the field of development, or manufacture, the equivalent of this kind of programming is self-assembly.”

Dawkins, feeling the obvious lack of actual examples of processes that are not in practice designed, goes on to draw an analogy between embryology and an imagined but clearly non-existent art of self-folding origami. Immediately Dawkins places his interpretation of evolutionary theory in direct conflict with physics. If there is one thing we know for certain from the highly verified results of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity, reality is non-local and must involve a holistic consciousness. To a physicist, the argument that evolution is entirely local is immediately suspect, the pervasive reality of fields, the emergence of local laws from universal laws is fundamental to modern physics. 

However it is not necessary to appeal to the physical unity of life to overturn Dawkins’ arguments based on locality and the invariance of genetic code. There is another sense in which modern genetics has begun to overturn locality and also change our understanding of the genetic code.

Let us resort to the popular applications of genetic testing to illustrate this. For a few dollars, DNA testing companies will analyse your saliva and give you a breakdown of your ethnic make-up. Test results could identify the father’s ancestry as English 48%, Celtic 25%, Scandinavian 22%, and Jewish 5%.  The mother’s results could be Celtic 58%, Scandinavian 38%, and Italian 4%. The daughter’s however could be Scandinavian 50%, Celtic 32%, Spanish 14%, Italian 2%, Jewish 1%, Nigerian 1%. Any child’s DNA is 50% made up of bits of the mother’s and 50% of the father’s DNA, yet in our example the father and mother have no Spanish and Nigerian, and the daughter has no English unlike the father. That’s impossible right? Something must have gone wrong.

Almost everyone who has had genetic tests becomes puzzled by similar results, so much so that many people feel genetic testing is commercial hocus-pocus. In reality, DNA test interpretation is a highly scientific process. Companies like Ancestry and MyHeritage have access to huge databases of genetic information extending to tens of millions of people. To sell their products in a competitive market they have had to refine their research methodologies and analysis. Have they got it right? Yes, largely they have. The rearrangement of genes throws up novel characteristics. The answer to this puzzle lies in understanding that the genetic code is in fact non-linear and non-local. Contrary to the popular conception that the genetic code is written in a linear sequence as a book is; in fact, the spatially separate (and therefore non-local) arrangement of genetic information within the spiral helix is crucial to the way an individual’s DNA expresses itself. The DNA molecule has non-local field-like properties.

The universe is non-local Evolutionary processes are imagined to be the result of a huge number of local interactions, but are they? Is there a model that would describe the same apparently local processes but with a captain at the helm? Yes, and the idea is found in many cultural traditions. Ancient Vedic science for example proposes that an omnipresent value of Wholeness guides evolution. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who expressed a modern day re-evaluation of Vedic wisdom as a science, discusses the value of Wholeness with reference to Natural Law. Natural Law always has two values—holistic and specific. For example the growth of a crystal structure can be likened to the process of completing a jigsaw. Pieces must not only fit together, but also the local or specific interlocking process must conform to a global or holistic picture

Just as Dawkins describes evolution, crystal growth was formerly understood as a purely local or ‘on-site’ process where a limited number of shapes can only be joined in specific ways, these repeated patterns then generate the exterior crystal shape; but in 1974 physicist Roger Penrose discovered a pseudo five-fold symmetry which was later found in an aluminium-manganese crystal alloy. This crystal has a non-repeating pattern which can only grow if the local pieces have a knowledge of a complex global structure as in the jigsaw. The specific rules governing the behaviour and orientation of incoming atomic groups in the crystal formation process have to be non-local or holistic. Penrose has since formulated a notion of space-time in which each local region has encoded or enfolded some aspect of a more general order. Quantum physics indicates that such non-local or holistic laws are fundamental to physical reality. 

Maharishi draws upon his Vedic Science to discuss these holistic and specific values as silence and dynamism. He explains their coexistence is universal in Nature from cycles of rest and activity to the need for a quiet level of administration to guide a dynamic organisation. On a more abstract level, in particle theory the global symmetry represented in the gauge field guarantees the uniform dynamical behaviour of local symmetry groups, but itself remains uninvolved (silent value) in the dynamic physical processes. Gauge fields adjust the whole universe to maintain symmetry when localised changes occur. They coordinate everything, ensuring unbroken symmetry and consistency. In general, the coexistence of dynamism and silence within a unified Wholeness is a cornerstone of consistent unified field theories of physics. Hence the notion that evolution is purely local is untenable.

Our human body is an enterprise on an unimaginable scale whose full potential is cosmic. 

We have 37 trillion cells that are mysteriously linked together to form a single individual. Every germinal centre gives rise to countless B cells over a lifetime, eventually producing a total pool of about 300 billion mature B cells. However, one B cell can multiply into thousands of identical plasma cells, (white blood cells) each of which produce a staggering 2,000 antibodies per second. Therefore our daily existence and continued health is predicated upon the birth of more than a quadrillion new immune cell workers every second. Enough to put any man made economic system to shame. Our human life is continuing as if on the surface of a vast physiological autonomic universe. 

As we have discussed in our legacy Substack articles  The Sacred Cell and Conscious Genes and The Structure of Consciousness the autonomic operation of our nervous system is connected with the self-referral unified level of consciousness. Every part of our body is awake and connected to the wholeness of consciousness. Consciousness is the glue of the body that holds our 37 trillion cells together as an individual, just as universal consciousness is the glue of the universe.

As the most extended interpretation of measurement theory shows, nothing material manifests from the virtual multidimensional Hilbert space without an observer. Moreover it is not only reasonable, but in the absence of arguments to the contrary, necessary to regard quantum entanglement as a fundamental property of the universe. Since the beginning of time (if there was one) the sequence of events has been threading everything together into a network of mutual relationships which are the indicators of wholeness. In religious terms, although we may not have seen God, we have seen the signs of his existence—the hand of God; and we can aspire to know God more fully. As Psalm 19 says “The Heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”

Vedic Science expresses the growth of experiences of wholeness in human awareness in a sequence of verses known as the Brahma Sutras—short expressions of totality. One foundational expression (1.4) contrasts the specific with the universal saying Tat Tu Samanvayat—Truth is the weaving together of evenness. In other words, the whole universe operates by virtue of connectedness.  This is the missing element in our understanding of genetics, life is not random in its essence, it is connected into the wholeness of universal consciousness which is eternally balanced and omnipresent. Some know this as God and others sense the intelligence that guides the universe. This is the final truth of existence which can be fully known in the deepest most awake experience of self-referral consciousness, whereby individual consciousness is realised as universal consciousness.

The Natural Hazards Insurance Act is not working. What this means for Kiwis.

Guy Hatchard
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The Natural Hazards Insurance Act is not working. What this means for Kiwis.

Given NZ’s vulnerability to natural disasters, this article raises questions about new legislation that should be of concern to everyone. 

Two weeks ago we had a flood in our house after a water pipe burst in the ceiling cavity. Within 2 days our insurance company had assessed and settled the claim. We were able to start work immediately to remedy the damage. 

In contrast, on January 18th we suffered a devastating rain event. Over 300mm of rain triggered a landslide burying our driveway under five metres of debris and closing the adjacent Russell Road. We were just one of hundreds of properties affected in the area around Oakura in Northland. Rated as a natural disaster, all insurance claims were automatically dealt with under the provisions of the recent Natural Hazards Insurance Act. Our claim and dozens of others in the area have still not been resolved satisfactorily 133 days later.

The Natural Hazards Insurance Act (NHI) was passed in 2023. Its stated purpose is: 

“to reduce the impact of natural hazards on people, property, and the community by providing for first loss insurance for residential buildings and residential land against damage that is a direct result of natural hazards”

It is intended to provide cover for damage to residential buildings and land that is a direct result of an earthquake, hydrothermal activity, a landslide, a tsunami, a storm, a flood, volcanic activity or a fire.

The Act established the Natural Hazards Commission (NHC) which imposes a 10% levy on everyone’s insurance premiums. NHC currently sits on a fund of $670 million and has $10.3 billion in global reinsurance.

It all sounds very reassuring until you actually have to make a claim and go through the tortuous process governed by an Act that appears to be written by people well versed in the art of Catch 22. If you have lived through a disaster, you will know that speed is of the essence. Following the Christchurch earthquake, our cell phones didn’t work, bridges were closed and taps ran dry. Within a day, supermarket shelves and petrol stations were largely empty. 

Therefore alarm bells rang when the NHC appointed assessor arrived at our property to look at the landslip a week after the event and told us not to rush because he already knew that the complex NHI claims process would take a minimum of three months to complete. 

The Act has a number of provisions which restrict NHC’s liability and severely limit the extent of any compensation.

Clearly the Act is written with city dwellers in mind, but even there the Act is deficient. Any NHC liability to restore property access is limited to 60 metres from your dwelling. In our case, and that of many rural properties, the only viable access to our property is affected, but most of it lies more than 60m from our dwelling and is therefore outside the scope of the Act. Moreover the Act caps NHC liability to the value of the proportion of the driveway affected. This is calculated as a proportional fraction of the value of the whole property. Say you have a property of 5 hectares with a land value of $500,000, with 50 square metres of driveway affected by a landslip. Using the NHC formula, you multiply 500,000 by the fraction 50/50000 which leaves the total NHC liability at just a paltry $500. 

The same formula would work quite differently for a city plot of 600m2 valued at $300,000. The relevant fraction for 50m2 of damaged driveway  would work out 1/12, leaving the cap at $25,000. Probably more than enough to repair a driveway, except in the case of a major slide, where the coverage would be insufficient. There are also other limitations to the Act coverage. But definitely these formulas do not work in the country. Our slip is mostly within 60 metres of a dwelling. It involved the movement of 2,500 m3 of material (300 truck loads), but most of the driveway where it ended up is just outside the 60m limit. NHC estimated the cost of repair at $337,000, but is offering just $12,700 in full settlement of its liability.

The NHC process is not only slow and unsuitable for country properties, it is very costly to implement. So far, NHC has spent more than $25,000 assessing our claim, only to tell us that their liability is limited to a tiny fraction of the damage. This has involved hiring geotechnical engineers to travel 200kms from Auckland and back in order to spend 20 minutes looking at a pile of debris and then three weeks compiling a report (there are a lot of local geotechnical firms who are very familiar with our area geology who could have been hired). We also had a site visit from a registered valuer to complete the calculations I managed in one sentence above.

We are not alone in being affected, A neighbour whose water supply was cut off but not covered by NHC put the situation succinctly: “It is as if your car is a write off and they are offering you a steering wheel”. Another neighbour, a corner of whose house foundation has slipped 20mm distorting doors and windows, is still mired in a prolonged and unsatisfactory NHC process with no outcome in sight. In the real world someone would have arrived within a week to jack up the slumped corner of the house and rectify the problem. It might have cost $5,000 and taken a couple of days to fix. Instead, the same trail of assessors, geotech engineers, and valuers are still grinding through the costly NHC maze. Moreover the corner of the house affected adds up to a single square metre, whose value will limit NHC’s liability to pennies. You don’t need me to tell you this is madness. 

I wrote to the NHC pointing out that the clauses of the NHI Act contain qualifications to its limitations which are clearly intended to allow the Commission some leeway in helping those affected by a natural hazard. For example, in valuing affected land the wording of the Act says the process is supposed to take account of the ‘utility’ of the land not just the square metres affected. If there is no longer a viable safe access, surely the value of the whole property is at risk? The Commission has told us only the land under the access way is covered, despite the Act saying that land which ‘supports and protects’access should also be covered. The Act says that the process of defining liability should take account of the ‘efficacy of the solution being offered’ not just the lowest possible payout. These points and others are being ignored by the Commission, suggesting NHC has decided on a very narrow interpretation of the Act. It is hard to escape the notion that NHC’s priorities are heavily weighted towards professional services, rather than helping people affected by disasters.

This week the Natural Hazards Commission finally replied to these points summarising their response quite bluntly and without addressing the Act wording I queried: 

“We have completed a full review of your claim and remain satisfied that the claim outcome is correct and in line with the Natural Hazards Insurance Act and its limitations.” 

The Commission has an annual income of $870 million, it employs 310 full time staff, although virtually all of its actual work and claim management is carried out by consulting firms and companies (including public relations firms) it appoints and pays handsomely, who the Commission requires to strictly adhere to its narrow interpretation of the Act wording.

The Natural Hazards Insurance Act was supposed to fix the problems of the EQC process, it appears to be a giant retrograde step written by Wellington lawyers who had no clear idea of what a natural disaster might involve and how to swiftly manage a solution. As a result, much of the NHC levy we all have to pay is being wasted on a bureaucratic nightmare. I doubt whether many if any MPs took the time to think the matter through. I have twice requested a meeting and submitted documentation to my local Northland MP Grant McCallum who has not responded to our request. Stuff newspaper has printed a comprehensive article about our concerns which has had more than a 100,000 views which shows the workings of the Act is a matter of significant public interest. I hope this article can trigger some concerns on a wider front.

Although our NHC claim has hit a brick wall, there has been a silver lining. Whangarei District Council and their contractor Fulton Hogan have been helpful, going above and beyond the call of duty. They promptly cleared a way out of our property. They have followed up by assessing the potential future risks for us and the road. It goes to show that hazards might be better managed locally rather than by a central bureaucratic Crown entity like the NHC. At the very least the wording and provisions of the Act need amending. A great deal of our economy and cultural life depends on a safe rural environment.

Alternatively, as the 48 hour turn around of our recent domestic flood settlement shows, it might be an option to simply require insurance companies to provide hazard cover. It would be in their interests to keep processing costs down. Moreover if you were dissatisfied, unlike the compulsory NHC levy arrangement, you could always take your business elsewhere. 

In a volcanic, earthquake prone country, you never know when you might need cover, Kiwis need a natural hazard insurance system that works. NZ has a can do attitude, let’s get this right.

The Unstoppable Rise of Miraculous Psychology

Guy Hatchard
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The Unstoppable Rise of Miraculous Psychology

A collaborative study undertaken by scientists from Oxford, Mellon. MIT and UC universities published in April is entitled “AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance”. It found that even after as little as 10 minutes use of AI to assist with problem solving, participants in the study became more AI dependent. The effect was observed across a variety of tasks including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension. They gained a short term advantage of greater speed to reach a solution, but subsequently suffered from a reduced ability to persist with challenging tasks and an impairment of performance. In other words, they performed significantly worse without AI and were more likely to give up. The authors concluded:

“Persistence is reduced because AI conditions people to expect immediate answers, thereby denying them the experience of working through challenges on their own”

Almost 20 years ago Norman Doige published his seminal work on neuroplasticity entitled “The Brain That Changes Itself”. He found that the brain had a remarkably dynamic and prolific ability to change its neural structure second by second in response to experiences, thoughts and the environment. In fact, billions of synaptic connections change in the adult human brain every day. But here is the rub—a 2013 study entitled “Use it or lose it: How neurogenesis keeps the brain fit for learning” investigated the extensive body of scientific literature showing that 

“New neurons and neural connections are only kept alive by effortful learning, a process that involves concentration in the present moment of experience over some extended period of time”. 

Astonishingly, AI advocates and heavy users seem to have overlooked this well known phenomenon.

The debilitating effects of modern technologies don’t stop there. The Washington Post has published an article entitled “Ozempic may be reshaping the brain, scientists say”. It reports that GLP-1 drugs may be rewiring circuits involved not only in appetite but in emotion, desire and beyond. Allison Shapiro, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz, was part of a team studying 13 teens and young women with a hormonal disorder affecting the ovaries who were put on GLP-1 drugs. As part of testing to catalogue the effect of the medication on their bodies, Shapiro took brain scans before and after. After a few months of Ozempic use, she was astonished to find extensive changes in the brain’s salience network which is related to attention.

The salience network has only recently been recognised as a large scale moderator of brain activity. It constantly monitors the external world and carefully decides how other brain networks react to new information and stimuli. It moderates how we switch between internal executive decision making and responses dictated by external stimuli. The salience network also plays a critical role in processing pain, emotion, reward, and motivation in connection with the limbic system. In these cases, the network decides and moderates how much the human body listens to signals involving emotional response.

The discovery of brain changes associated with Ozempic use is worrying Shapiro said:

“…because we didn’t expect to see this effect, and we really don’t know what it means.” 

The findings come amid increasing concern about reports of emotional dulling from longer term use of GLP-1 drugs. This is termed anhedonia—the reduced ability to experience pleasure from things you used to love, such as hobbies, music, socialising, or sex. Just sit back and contemplate what the phrase “we really don’t know what it means” implies. GLP-1 users are changing the way their brains work but no one told them it might happen and no one knows what the end game might be. Thus the study findings reveal that: 

The tens of millions of people worldwide who are taking GLP-1 drugs are actually part of a giant unplanned and unmonitored neuroscience experiment. 

You don’t have to search very far before you come across a worrying trend among weight loss GLP-1 drug users that borders on the development of addictive behaviours. More powerful weight loss drugs are in the research pipeline. Many people are obtaining them through the internet. The UK Daily Mail published an article yesterday with the sensational title “Disturbing reason so many are risking their health by injecting the new, unlicensed Godzilla of fat jabs: Black market ‘Reta’ is everywhere… this is how it supercharges your weight loss – and its brutal side-effects“. It recounts the obsessive and experimental drug use behavioural patterns that accompany the search for the perfect GLP-1 body. Behaviours that lead people to ignore dramatic adverse effects and risks which are discussed in a Washington Post article  entitled “An experimental GLP-1 pushes the limits of weight loss. There are risks.” These risks commonly include muscle mass loss, weakened bones, electrolyte imbalances, gallstones, a compromised immune system, hormone disruptions and more serious complications for some users.

In a world dominated by artificially constructed images of beauty and health, the desire for miracle levels of weight loss is so strong that the demand for GLP-1 drugs is threatening to outstrip supply. The profits are also mouth watering for drug manufacturers. In the over heated atmosphere of medical public relations hype, the concept of miraculous cures has not only gripped the public imagination and the field of corporate dreaming, but it has also overtaken the established safety processes of medical science. 

Aside from obesity and diabetes, the wish list of conditions that scientists believe GLP-1 drugs might help has become a very long one indeed. This includes, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, alcoholism and liver disease, sleep apnea, certain cancers, inflammatory conditions like arthritis and addictive disorders, neurological conditions including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and chronic pain. Despite the hope of a broad spectrum fix for medical conditions complicated by a high body mass index, there is no excuse for failing to take the time needed to monitor long term drug safety. Red flags are being ignored in the rush to develop new drugs. Red flags in science should trigger re-examination of fundamental assumptions, but they are being glossed over.

It is becoming increasingly clear that our genetic system functions holistically. As we reported recently in our article “The Fall of the House of Biotechnology”, drugs like Ozempic, which modify the process of genetic expression, will inevitably have very wide ranging unexpected side effects on both our physiology and psychology. Pushing ahead with the promotion of novel drugs which are designed to alter physiological processes linked to fundamental psychological traits is building a house of dynamite into our medical system which is increasingly dominated by profit rather than safety. No one knows where this will end up, but the safety signals are already ominous.

The desire for miraculous cures is nothing new, some do exist, but the promise of instant results is also the tool of the snake oil salesman. The strange mixture of A.I. and genetic medicine has led many to suspend the normal caution that should accompany the process of science. Our mind is our own until we hand control to others,

To learn more about the natural relationship between consciousness, food  and health read our legacy Substack articles including The Sacred Cell and Conscious Genes and The Structure of Consciousness in which we explain how our nervous system can support the expression of a connected, self-referral stability of awareness. You can subscribe to our blog at Substack to receive key articles offering in depth analysis of the deeper principles of consciousness, sent straight to your in box. There is no charge for this.

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