Bob's Red Pill #12 - Biotechnology is a Cult
by Crypto Psi
Biotechnology essentially functions as a cult in our society. Exaggerations, promises, along with a complete denial of risk and harm, are the price of admission. The incubator of fledgling cult members is the STEM-reddit-scientism industrial complex, which finds its most potent concentration in university science programs.
Much is written about the scourge of university campuses being infected with the woke mind virus, excessive administration and DEI focus, etc… much less discussed is the biotechnology cult. In fact, some of the biggest critics of the woke modern campus are the loudest mouthpieces for endless genetic modification.
Recently, the house of cards we call mRNA covid vaccines has been crumbling in dramatic fashion. Of course, faithful Rare Candy readers and listeners were clued into all of this since got-danged 2020, but I digress!
It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Pfizer mRNA vaccines are contaminated with plasmid DNA well beyond legal regulatory limits. This is problematic enough on its own, but mRNA vaccines feature LNPs, or lipid nano-particles, which act as a non-specific transporter of genetic material. Remember when it was promised that the shot “stayed in your arm”? Then that was proven categorically false? Remember when genetic expression was only supposed to happen for a few hours, a few days tops? Now we have evidence that this expression triggered by the mRNA shot, in at least some people, still occurs months and months after the intervention! Indeed, I believe we’re aware of at least a few cases where spike production still has not ceased. Science!
Furthermore, it has just been shown, in Nature (a “prestigious” journal) that +1 ribosomal frameshifting errors are intrinsic to mRNA covid vaccine technology. Non-cult scientists were predicting this way back in 2021, and have just been exonerated — only after a huge censorship and character assassination campaign, of course. These two revelations regarding the mRNA shots are landmark, and just the beginning. Of course, anyone following real life with their own two eyes would be aware of how toxic and damaging these vaccines are — another thing you must ignore or explain away if you’re a cult member.
On that note, why I insist that support of this bastardization of science a cult is because those who should be most alarmed by these findings are the ones in the deepest denial about them. I’m not talking about the high priests, the Albert Bourla types — they know exactly what they’re doing. I’m talking about the geneticist PhD student at Cal Tech, the undergrad at Johns Hopkins. I’m talking about Bill Nye the Reddit Guy and his fans. To these types, mRNA technology (and every other biotech venture, read on) cannot fail us, only we can fail this technology. It is to be worshipped, exalted, deified. All critics, even credentialed experts in their field, are heretics and weirdos. They probably voted for Trump and stormed DC on January 6th. Best to totally ignore their scientific arguments with zero engagement.
The covid vaccines have acted like a “Baby’s First Redpill”, waking up countless individuals through the sheer lunacy of this particular public health endeavor. Even Steve Kirsch admits to being “blue pilled” before the covid vaccine nightmare woke him up. He was a Moderna trial funder!
Of course, the biotech scam didn’t pop up ready-made in 2020.
Bio-technocrats lack hubris
The first thing to understand about our collective biotech zeitgeist is that it rests on an extremely shaky foundation: that we understand genetics enough to reliably and safely alter genes and gene expression predictably. The original STEM-lords and biotech bros completely oversold our understanding of DNA, perhaps the worst offenders being Crick and Watson. They were so confident in the predictive power of genetics, they thought they would have all the science on predicting animal behavior through genetics alone in under a decade. Of course, over half a century later, we’re nowhere near close to such an accomplishment.
The Human Genome Project was a huge collective red pill for honest scientists, showing how endlessly complex genetic expression actually is. We have less genes than some starfish. The relatively small number of genes humans have turned out to be a shock and somewhat of a disappointment. If the most intelligent species on the planet is resultant from such a tiny set of genes, this must mean that expression of said genes is a symphony we can barely begin to understand. Even most current biotech projects and applications ignore this complexity — see: mRNA vaccines.
Investor Craig Venter started a private project to compete with the public HGP, with the ultimate goal of creating super-effective genomics-based treatments for specific diseases. Scientists were claiming we could essentially end most diseases plaguing humanity. Being a scrupulous man, Venter quickly realized his scientific advisors had oversold on several promises. Having a good sense of humor, he said he became a millionaire the hard way — working his way down from a billion. He also said “ we have, in truth, learned nothing from the genome other than probabilities”.
Although he’s still hopeful for biotech, I don’t consider Venter a member of the cult. He’s clearly able to speak honestly about the severe limitations of our understanding of genetics. In other words, he exhibits hubris informed by his experience. He’s also “f*** you” rich, and doesn’t need to lie to himself and others to attain funding and prestige.
GMOs
Although mRNA vaccines represent a stark threat against our genome, one that we shouldn’t take lightly, no enterprise shows the lunacy of biotechnology more than GMOs. It’s also perfect example of pre-covid internet propaganda and astroturfing. If you’re skeptical of the covid vaccine propaganda, just wait until you go down the GMO rabbit hole.
Listening to the official narrative, you’d believe that these crops were created through careful genetic splicing, thoughtfully introducing traits that would benefit humanity. Looking at the actual history is quite the trip.
Did you know the first transgenic crops were created with a gene gun? I mean a literal gun — a .22 caliber gunpowder charge to propel the DNA-coated particles, which were actual tungsten bullets. This “tech” was used to create Bt-corn and Roundup Ready soy, the two GMO crops that dominate the globe in terms of acreage percentage. It was also used to create “Golden Rice”, a rice strain that produces beta-carotene intended to alleviate poverty-induced deficiencies.
Here at Rare Candy, we love to label things as “reddit” — it’s our favorite adjective. Let me tell you, friends, that nothing is more reddit — and bullshit — than golden rice.
Shown above is the cover of TIME magazine, July 31st, 2000. Carefully read the headline text and subhead. The most important word is “could”. You want a million kids to die a year? How dare you oppose this GMO rice!
The truth is, golden rice hasn’t cured one case of vitamin A deficiency, ever, in spite of limitless funding and almost three decades to get the job done. Yet, biotech proponents (cultists) insist on blaming “anti GMO activists” for stalling its implementation. This rice fundamentally doesn’t work in real life. Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin, and giving supplemental beta carotene in GMO rice form to starving children doesn’t solve their deficiency. Even the most normie mainstream nutritionist could have predicted this, yet golden rice is the biotech myth that just won’t die. Mostly because it gets endless uncritical puff pieces written about it.
In fact, it acts as a trojan horse for other less humanitarian GMOs. We hear endlessly about how GMOs will improve nutrition and end poverty. The real result has been massive increase in herbicide use. This isn’t the essay for a deep dive on GMOs, but take it from me: it’s largely bullshit and propaganda.
If you’re a GMO and biotech proponent, ask yourself why these products can’t stand on their own merits, succeed on their own terms, and need an ambiguous group of luddite enemies to make the case for this nonsense rice. Maybe it’s time to admit you fell for the reddit rice and were scammed?
A Way Out
All it takes to break free from this cult is an honest appraisal of our understanding of genetics, and an equally honest critique of the past 30 years of biotech products.
I decided to randomly visit Independent Science News, curated by Jonathan Latham PhD, friend of the show. Here are the headlines on the front page tonight, as I write this piece:
Transgenic Rice Once Again Proposed as Solution to Bacterial Blight Outbreaks, This Time in Africa
The Great Raccoon Dog Mystery
Children from Gamete-like Cells: Dishing up a Eugenic Future
Did West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin?
Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance Has Hidden Almost $40 Million In Pentagon Funding And Militarized Pandemic Science
EcoHealth Alliance Orchestrated Key Scientists’ Statement on “natural origin” of SARS-CoV-2
Engineered COVID-19-Infected Mouse Bites Researcher Amid ‘Explosion’ Of Risky Coronavirus Research
Is this the psycho world we want to live in? These people are sick, they’re insane. If you’re a proponent of biotech and you intend to work professionally in the field, do you want to be like this? Are you courageous enough to speak up against such nonsense? My experience tells me no, most scientism-STEM types are the last people to ever go against the biotechnology imperative, regardless of evidence. That’s a shame, because it just makes them all look like cult members not connected to reality.
I know I’m sure to get some comments along the lines of “biotech has done plenty of good, the potential is there, it can still do tremendous good in the world”. Sure. Let’s clean house first though, and maybe set up some ground rules? And also some check points along the way, to make sure we’re on track? I won’t hold my breath.
Apologies for another BRP tinged with negativity, had to get some of this off my chest. Next installment of BRP is number 13, a very special number, and I promise to bring a lighter, more positive vibe for that one ; )
To your health!
-Psi
Best Bob's Red Pill yet. I was just completing my BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics when the pandemic hit. With some of that hubris you describe, I lined up for the shot thinking that it was going to just be as effective as water and no more dangerous. Uf, what a mistake. Even my virology professor had said at the time that mRNA shots were unlikely to be successful as our cells are literally designed to keep shit like that out, but that was before we knew about the LNPs. The whole experience was a massive black pill for me but I persisted with The Science and started a postgraduate Genetics program investigating the cause of intersexuality in goats, a fascinating subject which revealed to me just how complex genetics really is and how simplistic the models that your average Reddit brained Science lover believes in. What finally caused me to snap was in a meeting with my academic supervisor, she asked me if it was OK to talk about Chromosomes as the basis for sex in animals as some other students had complained to the administration when she had said this in a recent first year course. WTF?!? my whole research project was about investigating exactly this. I couldn't believe I was having this discussion with a professor of molecular biology! I realized then that it was all bullshit, that scientists were craven fools who could be bullied into stating things they knew simply weren't true by fucking children. I finished the quarter and didn't go back. You're absolutely right, the ones deepest in denial about all of this are the neophytes and they're the ones we're going to have to endure long after the Bourlas of the world are gone.
Honestly, I should have know better as I worked for Greenpeace for many years on the anti-GMO campaign and knew how bad the science was. But I'd fooled myself into thinking it was just a small part of the biotechnology industry and not the basis for the whole fucking thing. Quite the black pill to swallow, but I'm glad I didn't waste any more time chasing fool's gold.
Keep spreading the word guys, you're doing the Lord's work.