You may have seen a PG movie on Apple TV about the sherpa Tenzing Norgay who conquered Everest with Sir Edmond Hilary in 1953, a year that coincides with the discovery of the helical structure of DNA and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. The film recounts Tenzing’s early struggles. He fell sick and was abandoned by his parents at a Himalayan Monastery, eventually marrying the daughter of a nearby farmer and moving to Darjeeling with his wife to become a Sherpa. A problem arises because none of this is true, it is a romanticised Hollywood fiction.
Turning fiction into truth in order to create box office success (aka recognition, acceptance and profit) has become an industry that has thoroughly infected modern medical science. This industry is able to generate a constant stream of articles in the popular press suggesting that cures for most of our medical woes are just around the corner. An article in the UK Telegraph earlier this week headlines: Britain’s leading dementia expert: ‘Alzheimer’s could be prevented within five years’. It reports that Prof. Catherine Mummery, director of the UK Dementia Trials Network, predicts that within five years people who are still cognitively healthy will be receiving powerful drugs which will prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s. According to Mummery this will change the world.
The main problem with Mummery’s view lies with the drugs she expects to produce these amazing results—lecanemab and donanemab, which are currently undergoing trial assessment. As we reported in our article The Fall of the House of Biotechnology, the trial results already published include serious adverse effects. The research found that 20% of lecanemab and donanemab recipients experienced life-threatening brain swelling and brain bleeding. The prospect of cognitively healthy people being told they need to take a life threatening drug to stay healthy into old age beggars imagination.
In their enthusiasm to cure all diseases, biotech researchers, trialling drugs that alter gene expression, have developed a blind spot to the dangers they are creating. In the twisted logic of the race to banish all disease, serious adverse effects in the range of 5, 10, 20 or even 50 percent of participants have become acceptable. Those harming people in this way have framed themselves as saviours of the world. Somehow they have succeeded in passing this faulty logic on to politicians and regulators who approve medicines and the doctors who prescribe them. This has happened to such an extent, that those raising the alarm about safety and informed consent are consistently labelled conspiracy theorists and cast out of the medical professions as happened during the pandemic with those questioning the safety of mRNA vaccines. Fears that have since proved well grounded.
Take the little known case of Sodium Vaproate (VPA), first approved by the FDA in 1978 as an anticonvulsant to treat epilepsy and bipolar disorder. Its exact mechanism of action was unknown until 2020 when studies found that it alters the process of genetic expression and changes the spatial arrangement, superstructure and molecular order of DNA. Two mothers in the north of England taking VPA for epilepsy in the 1990s under the brand name Epilim, both had children with developmental difficulties. After endless rounds of fruitless investigation, a specialist casually informed the mothers in 2009 that their children probably had “foetal valproate syndrome”, a condition first recognised in 1984. A UK study in the 1990s estimated that sodium valproate carries a 10% risk of causing physical malformations and a 30-40% risk of causing serious neurodevelopmental disorders among the children of those exposed during pregnancy.
A UK Guardian article reviewing a current BBC documentary reveals that the two mother’s exposed the response of the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) when the drug first came on the market:
The Epilim manufacturer Sanofi Aventis made a statement to CSM that the drug was ‘harmful to foetuses’—CSM responded: “To warn about this, would cause women fruitless anxiety.”
This was especially egregious because drugs with far lower levels of risk were available. So nobody was told anything except for a lie that the drug was safe and effective, a romanticised medical fiction that was in fact a deadly recipe for physical and mental deformity, deformities that grew out of the DNA deformity that VPA creates. The BBC documentary features secret recordings of government drug safety committee members responding to the complaints of the two mothers, excusing themselves by saying:
“The neurologists weren’t in favour of having this acknowledgment of risk … Doctors don’t like being told what to do,” and saying that “patient warnings on packaging weren’t necessary because people could find the information on the internet if they wanted”.
As an aside, we remember the NZ government podium of truth telling us daily not to look on the internet. A kind of messaging that has become normalised. Drug companies have so much power, which is not just financial but also over the truth itself. Unfortunately NZ is one of just two countries in the world that legally allow unrestricted direct-to-consumer (DTC) television advertising for branded prescription drugs.
It is estimated that there are 40,000 children in the UK alone adversely affected by VPA, no compensation has yet been paid to anyone. A 2011 UK class action suit failed when a group of 138 mothers of deformed children were refused legal aid. They have since regrouped which has led to the BBC documentary. This shows how much you have to do research, be alert and look after your own interests when prescribed harmful drugs.
The scale of medical deception about adverse effects is growing year by year as more and more drugs which alter genetic expression are being introduced. In fact, in many cases researchers are experimenting by altering processes about which they know very little. Our latest article at Substack reports on the role of molecular vibration and resonance in the process of genetic expression. It describes approaches to health and the unfoldment of mental potential based on the use of sound. More than 200 million proteins are known to science, but not even the vibrational and resonant modes of one of those proteins is understood. Genetic editing alters molecular shape, sequence and structure which in turn alters potential vibrational modes involved in genetic expression. Our lack of knowledge of this area ensures that the process of developing many novel drugs is beginning to resemble medieval alchemy—mixing elements together in the hope of obtaining gold. Unfortunately this misleading concept is finding a ready audience among an ill informed majority of the public, including the government, who are hoping for one pill to rule them all. The idea that there will be miracle genetic solutions for all disease types is like the search for the philosopher’s stone of alchemy—baseless, fruitless and often poisonous.
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