https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/12/investigative-series/developers-of-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-tied-to-uk-eugenics-movement/
For
much of 2020, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was treated as an early
frontrunner, though its lead would later be marred by scandals related to its
clinical trials, including the death of participants, sudden trial pauses, the
use of a problematic “placebo” with its own host of side effects, and the
“unintentional” misdosing of some participants that skewed its self-reported
efficacy rate.
The significant
issues that emerged during trials have provoked little concern from
the vaccine’s two lead developers, despite critical attention from even
mainstream media directed at its complications. The lead developer of the
Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, Adrian Hill, told NBC on December 9 that the
experimental vaccine should be approved and distributed to the public before
the conclusion of the safety trials, saying “to wait for the end of the trial
would be the middle of next year. That’s too late, this vaccine is effective,
available at large scale and easily deployed.”…
However,
investigation into the vaccine’s developers and the realities of their
“no-profit pledge” reveals a very different story than that which has been spun
for most of the year by corporate press releases, experts, and academics tied
to the vaccine and the mainstream press.
For
instance, mainstream media has had little, if anything, to say about the role
of the vaccine developers’ private company—Vaccitech—in the Oxford-AstraZeneca
partnership, a company whose main investors include former top Deutsche Bank
executives, Silicon Valley behemoth Google, and the UK government. All of them
stand to profit from the vaccine alongside the vaccine’s two developers, Adrian
Hill and Sarah Gilbert, who retain an estimated 10 percent stake in the
company. Another overlooked point is the plan to dramatically alter the current
sales model for the vaccine following the initial wave of its administration,
which would see profits soar, especially if the now-obvious push to make
COVID-19 vaccination an annual affair for the foreseeable future is made
reality.
Arguably most troubling of all is the direct link of the
vaccine’s lead developers to the Wellcome Trust and, in the case of Adrian
Hill, the Galton Institute, two groups with longstanding ties to the UK
eugenics movement. The latter organization, named for the “father of eugenics”
Francis Galton, is the renamed UK Eugenics Society, a group notorious for over
a century for its promotion of racist pseudoscience and efforts to “improve racial
stock” by reducing the population of those deemed inferior.
The ties of Adrian Hill to the Galton Institute should raise
obvious concerns given the push to make the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine he
developed with Gilbert the vaccine of choice for the developing world,
particularly countries in Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and Africa,
the very areas where the Galton Institute’s past members have called for
reducing population growth.
