Vasily Maltsev is an Orthodox Christian and highly educated in the field of biomedical sciences. He has an undergraduate degree from University of Central Florida and a Master’s in Medical Sciences from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. Vasily did his pre-licensing training at Johns Hopkins Children’s Hospital, and has accrued over 2 years of cytogenetic experience as a licensed practitioner. His interests include understanding the mechanisms behind drug development and the impact they have on patients. Vasily seeks to share his insights and knowledge with readers and engage in dialogue about the important issues facing the industry today. The COVID19 Pandemic sparked his interest in exploring the dark side of the industry, including such topics as medical malpractice and medical tyranny. His goal is to gain a deeper understanding of both the positive and negative aspects pharmaceutical science.
Coffee hour after Divine Liturgy is one of my favorite times of the week. I love meeting new people, be they visitors, new catechumens, or other Orthodox I have just not yet gotten to know yet. Orthodox Christians come from all walks of life and work in many different fields. I’ve met lawyers, engineers, and even doctors and scientists. In any initial conversation, the question is invariably asked of me, “What do you do for work?” by way of answer, I like to start by showing this photo from my favorites on my phone, and asking what everyone in the conversation sees.
It’s always amusing to hear the guesses of people as to what these things are that I’m showing them on the screen. “Is that bacteria?” or “Are those worms?”
Of course, neither is correct. Nor any of the other guesses, usually. That picture is of none other than human chromosomes. I took this picture during Cytogenetics training by placing the phone camera in the eyepiece of the microscope, thus capturing the cell in metaphase occurring on a glass slide. This image is surprisingly easy to produce by adding simple cell synchronization chemicals to place the cell in the metaphase state spreading the chromosomes with hypotonic treatment, and staining with Giemsa.
I love this image for a couple of reasons. First, it really illustrates where we are as a society. It seems we are constantly hearing about concepts such as DNA, mRNA, epigenetic expression, and others. Popular science fiction is filled with story lines involving genetic manipulation, even supposedly “bringing back” long extinct animals. Major newspapers now print stories about the need to “improve” humanity through various methods of “baby optimization” (stringent choice of donor gametes for in-vitro fertilization, embryo screening, in-vitro gametogenesis to use stem cells in place of eggs, personal gene editing, and more).
Americans are being bombarded with all kinds of data about new treatments, new scientific advances. Government and society are moving at breakneck speed to popularize genetic treatment options that a few years ago were the stuff of science fiction. Yet, the average voter, the average patient, the average college educated professional cannot even identify a picture of human chromosomes.
Neither can the average priest, the average lawmaker, the average philosopher, or the average Theologian. Science is beginning to alter what it means to be human, and most people are just along for the ride. The experts are in charge, with little to no meaningful oversight. Showing that picture is my way of helping to wake people up to how little they know about where we are, and where we are headed.
A second reason I love that picture is because, simple as it is from a scientific standpoint, it really illustrates deep genetic truths. The practical purpose of acquiring this image is to help medical professionals diagnose Genetic abnormalities that cause patient constitutional or oncological disease. But it also helps understand why different cells have such different functions, even though the DNA inside of their nuclei are identical. Giemsa stain doesn’t randomly stain certain regions light and others dark. The reason why specific patterns emerge in this metaphase image is due to epigenetic modifications that occur on the histone proteins that help coil the DNA into its chromosomal shape. The popular belief is that DNA is the “blueprint” for life at the cellular level. That isn’t really true, because as the staining in the picture illustrates, not all DNA is “switched on”.
Dark areas are methylated and functionally gene poor DNA while the lightly stained regions are acetylated, which causes the DNA to be euchromatic, lightly stained, open to protein modification and gene rich. It isn’t only the DNA you possess, but also the DNA you express, that matters to your overall health and well being. Epigenetic expression, as we have learned over the past few decades, can be altered over a person’s life, sometimes with catastrophic results that we are only now beginning to understand.
People are different, right down to the DNA and even how that DNA is expressed. One man’s medicine can be another man’s poison. Which means mass treatments that do not address possible genetic variance in people, such as mass vaccination programs and other mass medical interventions, can cause great harm. In pursuit of the largest possible return on investment, however, scientists and their corporate sponsors want to apply their treatments as widely as possible. This pecuniary conflict of interest often involves the regulators as well, who are frequently former and/or future highly-paid employees of the very industries they supposedly regulate.
In such an environment, “trusting the experts” with the future of humanity is asking way too much.
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Especially since many of the experts that we are trusting to guide us safely are the same ones who have been hurting public health for decades. Which is why I am writing this article for Orthodox laity. The smartest people in the room are too often blinded by greed and hubris to have your best interests at heart.
To illustrate how bad science can be embraced by experts, and cause massive harm, let’s start with a discussion of newly confirmed Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s book Thiomerosal: Let the Science Speak.
Although this book was published in 2014, I first discovered it during the Covid years. Throughout my undergraduate studies, I had always believed in the famous story of the fraudulent scientist, Dr. Andrew Wakefield. The story, as I was told by college professors, is that he published a paper showing vaccines cause autism, but it was retracted due to conflict of interest and fraud. I and every student around me accepted this story as fact.
Reading about this in the middle of Covid, and comparing it to the standard narrative I had been taught as an undergrad, what most stood out to me was the absolute lack of scientific curiosity. RFK Jr’s book contained evidence that there has been a massive rise of Autism (statistics also available here):
“In 2007, the CDC’s new estimate for the rate of ASDs rose to 1 in 150 (based on 2002 data), then to 1 in 110 in 2009 (based on 2006 data), to 1 in 88 (based on 2008 data), and, most recently, in March 2014, to a truly alarming 1 in 68 children (based on 2010 data).”
Today (after all this book was written in 2014) the autism rate is 1 in 36.
No one seemed to know what was causing the massive spike in Autism rates, and no one seemed particularly interested in finding out. But one thing all the experts seemed to know for sure – it could not be related to vaccines.
One of the key scientific discussions in the RFK Jr book addresses the difference between methylmercury, found in nature and ingested by people when they eat fish, and ethyl mercury that is found in the Thimerosal “preservative” which was once used in a lot of vaccines. Thimerosal is still utilized in flu vaccines given to pregnant women today. A key study conducted by University of Washington’s Thomas Burbacher showed that ethyl mercury accumulates in the brains of macaques.
So Wakefield had not been wrong about the possibility of brain damage done by vaccines containing Thimerosal. But there was a piece missing. Not all children are going to be harmed, because it appears damage results in children with glutathione peroxidase deficiency. This is a genetic deficiency that increases mercury sensitivity because of lack of the enzyme responsible for clearing away mercury.
The key biological mechanism leading to Autism, as described in the book, surrounds Children with deficiency in this enzyme. This leads them to be more prone to disruption of the epigenetic DNA methylation patterns. This process occurs randomly with differentiating intensities like an “explosion” around the DNA. Hence the name Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as individual results vary based on differences at the DNA level within children that no one was screening for. The same vaccines were being injected blindly into millions of children, and the negative results were simply being ignored.
“Oxidative stress brought on by mercury exposure prevents proper methylation, and thus interferes with epigenetic regulation, which can lead to improper development in an organism.” – Excerpt From: Robert F. Kennedy. Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak Apple Books.
By the 2000’s, it was clear that genetically susceptible children were being harmed. The experts, however, did not “follow the science” to try and solve the problem. Instead, most experts choose to “follow the money” and do everything possible to discredit the data showing causal links between vaccines and autism. It was a conspiracy carried out in plain sight.
Walter Orenstein MD, in 2000, presided over the Simpsonwood Conference at which pharmaceutical industry leaders, federally funded academics, and US, European, and WHO regulators gathered to decide how to conceal the vaccine-induced Autism epidemic from the public to protect HHS’s institutional reputation and Big Pharma’s lucrative vaccine program. The impetus for that meeting was an internal CDC review of the nation’s largest health system database—the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)—which showed that newborns who received Thimerosal-laced Hepatitis B vaccines and/or RhoGAM (through their mothers) had an astonishing 1,135 percent elevated autism risk when compared to unvaccinated children.
Orenstein convened the meeting to devise strategies for covering up the crisis. Over the coming months, Orenstein masterminded a series of studies by CDC and Danish con man, Poul Thorsen—now a fugitive wanted by Interpol and the FBI—to fool the world about the links between autism and childhood vaccines. Those studies—enduring showcases of scientific deception—remain among the most oft-cited publications in the research literature for vaccine safety.
The Vaccine Safety Datalink Team study on Thimerosal, with Thomas Verstraeten as its lead author (Verstraeten study), has raised significant controversy. The study’s final results, which eventually were published in Pediatrics in November 2003, differed markedly from earlier runs of the data. RFK Jr.’s Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak highlights how the Verstraeten study, originally showing a strong correlation between Thimerosal exposure and neurological impairment, was later altered to downplay these risks before publication. The study initially found that children exposed to high levels of Thimerosal in their first month of life had a 7.6 times higher risk of developing autism.
The story of vaccine medicine is one of conflicts of interest, manipulated data, and concealed risks by doctors, regulators, researchers, and pharmaceutical companies. These are the experts we are going to trust to “engineer” the genetic future of mankind?
One of the worst features of this debate? Experts that were willing to go along with the cover ups, willing to inject harmful vaccines in their patients, would refuse those same pharmaceutical interventions for their own children and grandchildren!
Richard Johnston, an immunologist and pediatrician from the University of Colorado, was concerned enough to worry about his own family members:
“My gut feeling? Forgive this personal comment, but I… do not want [my] grandson to get a Thimerosal-containing vaccine until we know better what is going on. It will probably take a long time. In the meantime… I think I want that grandson to only be given Thimerosal-free vaccines.”
Dr. Johnston is not alone in his hypocrisy.
“Ten percent of pediatricians and 21% of pediatric specialists claim they would not follow [CDC] recommendations for future progeny. Despite their education, physicians in this study expressed concern over the safety of vaccines.” – Martin M, Badalyan V. Vaccination practices among physicians and their children. OJPed 2012 Sep; 2(3): 228-35.
As mentioned previously, although Thimerosal has been taken out of a lot of childhood vaccines, it’s still used in annual flu vaccines given to pregnant women. This is a danger to the infant because Thimerosal is more damaging during early development of the fetus as it can cross the blood brain barrier and placenta. Pediatricians, who tell mothers to be careful when introducing new foods, are perfectly fine injecting pregnant women with a toxic substance that can end up in their babies’ brains. Such is the power of medical orthodoxy combined with economic incentives.
“Coupling the incontrovertible evidence of the experimental reproductive toxicity of thimerosal and its metabolites to the limited scope of available human safety studies, it is astonishing that the ACIP’s recommendation to administer the influenza vaccine during pregnancy has not been previously challenged. The omission of these known risks of a major influenza vaccine component from the package inserts would imply that the drug is clearly mislabeled.” Ayoub D, Yazbak F. Influenza vaccination during pregnancy: a critical assessment of the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). J Am Phys Surg. 2006; 11(2):41-47
Pregnant women were also a target population for the mRNA vaccines. The results have been catastrophic.
Senate Testimony on mRNA Vaccine Harms
It isn’t all just about Thimerosal in terms of vaccine harms. If that were the case, the fix would be easy enough – just remove it from all vaccines. Unfortunately, other vaccine ingredients and impurities besides Thimerosal also cause adverse effects to susceptible individuals. Side effects can include Autism or even death. No genetic screening is ever done to determine who might suffer an adverse reaction. The medical establishment is perfectly fine with blindly injecting the same substances into every possible person.
There is also Antibody Dependent Enhancement, a phenomenon first demonstrated by vaccinologist Peter Araby whose work spans 30 years in Africa. He coined the term after publishing his groundbreaking study showing that, although the people that he vaccinated with Diptheria vaccine had less chances of acquiring Diptheria, they were more likely to die from other diseases such as Malaria. Vaccines, especially given to healthy people that don’t need the intervention, is like a general preparing an army for a land attack. Sure, the soldiers, in this case antibodies, are tailored for a ground assault but when the attack happens to come from the sky (completely different disease) the army (immune system) is unable to cope. The result is an overall decrease in health, and increase in overall mortality.
Araby’s study was published in 2017 based on data from the early 1980’s. The results should have guided our medical thinking concerning the Covid vaccines, but they absolutely did not. ADE was completely ignored during the rollout of the Covid mRNA vaccines, to disastrous effect. A Cleveland Clinic study demonstrated that the more doses of the mRNA covid vaccines healthcare workers at the clinic received, the more likely they were to get sick with Covid as the virus mutated in real time. After this study went viral, fact checkers were quick to try to explain away the study citing confounding variables. The chart is below. If the mRNA improved over all outcomes, then people that took 2 doses would fare better than people that took one dose, and people that took 3 doses would fare better than people that took 2. Instead the data falls perfectly in line that the more doses people took, the sicker they got.
The experts, going into Covid, knew that genetic susceptibility to medical treatments varied within a population. The Thimerosal results had confirmed that. The experts also knew that vaccinating for a single disease could hamper the immune response, making a patient more susceptible to newer variants of Covid or other diseases entirely. Potentially more dangerous diseases than the highly age-stratified Covid 19 virus. Fighting Covid, even successfully, could actually make things worse overall.
But the “experts” ignored all of that and tried to inject as many people as possible with vaccines based on mRNA technology. So let’s talk about that technology. With mRNA, we should be extremely careful, as it is our responsibility to preserve our God-given human DNA against degradation. Given the stakes, the very essence of human life itself, you would have thought experts would have been inherently cautious. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Consider this simple schematic on how mRNA vaccines work.
The diagram depicts the use of a lipid-nanoparticle to transfer the mRNA into a cell. Lipid-nanoparticles are themselves allergy causing toxic compounds that are difficult to metabolize (in other words, they stay in the human body a long time). LNP biodistribution was detected in the liver, spleen, adrenal glands, and ovaries: “Outside the injection site, low levels of radioactivity were detected in most tissues, with the greatest levels in plasma observed 1-4 hours post-dose.” To make matters worse, the encapsulating mRNA molecule is composed of difficult-to-degrade synthetic pseudo uridines which are cardiotoxic especially in individuals with certain genetic predispositions.
“Reports show a comparable rate of mRNA vaccine‐related myocarditis after the second dose of the mRNA vaccine” Long‐lasting, biochemically modified mRNA, and its frameshifted recombinant spike proteins in human tissues and circulation after COVID‐19 vaccination – PMC
Further, the European Medical Association group, the body that oversees the production of the mRNA vaccine in Europe, pointed out a concern that the vaccine manufacturers have not supplied sufficient evidence that the mRNA is fully intact. It is possibly fragmented (citation below) due to missing the Poly A tail, which could be another reason why the spike protein causes scarring of the smooth endothelium of blood vessels and myocardium.
Scarring of the heart and other negative outcomes are also associated with individuals with an SCNSA gene mutation. This gene codes for a sodium channel protein in heart cells. Individuals with this mutation are susceptible to heart damage, possibly even resulting in sudden death. Even in 2025, the “experts” are still recommending mRNA vaccines with absolutely no genetic screening. Genetic variability explains why some individuals tolerate the mRNA injections, while others do not. So-called “public health” is playing Russian Roulette with millions of lives.
And they know it.
“Here’s the concept: as the myocardium is depolarizing, if the wavefront of depolarization goes through an area where there’s inflammation and edema (from spike protein) there is slowed conduction and an opportunity for that wave front to circle back and then cause re-entry, and when there is re-entry that is the most common mechanism of ventricular tachycardia.” – Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
In Senate testimony in May 2025, Dr. McCullough spoke further concerning mRNA vaccine induced myocarditis:
Dr. Peter McCullough then took the floor and dismantled the narrative surrounding vaccine-induced myocarditis. Before COVID, McCullough had seen just two cases in his entire career. After the rollout, everything changed. He says he’s now “examined thousands of patients with this problem.”
“There’s 1,065 papers in the peer-reviewed literature on COVID vaccine myocarditis,” he explained, pointing to a 2021 case published in the New England Journal of Medicine. A 42-year-old man developed vaccine-induced myocarditis. “The infection is ruled out,” McCullough said. “It’s the vaccine.” Three days after his Moderna shot, the man was dead.
McCullough cited a shocking case from Korea—a young man who died within eight hours of hospitalization after a Pfizer shot. His heart had been, in McCullough’s words, “fried with inflammation.”
Then came a case from Connecticut: two teenage boys, 16 and 17, died in their sleep just days after Pfizer. Their parents found them unresponsive. “These cases… should have gotten everyone’s attention,” McCullough said. “We should never have someone die after taking a vaccine that’s directly caused to the vaccine.”
Believe it or not, there is more. The mRNA in the previous schematic doesn’t come out of nowhere. Following the central dogma of molecular biology, which states that RNA is transcribed from DNA, the mRNA in the vaccines is produced from an E.coli plasmid – a circular type of extrachromosomal DNA which can be easily spliced with restriction enzymes and stitched back together containing new genes coding for whatever type of protein is desired. In this case, the spike protein similar to the one produced by the genetic sequence found in the Coronavirus. Below is a schematic of what it looks like.
The above diagram illustrates a circular piece of DNA which comes from E.coli that has been engineered to code for the mRNA of Covid spike protein, represented in red above. The protrusions in black letters, such as PaqCI, are palindromic regions in the plasmid where restriction enzymes have been isolated from other prokaryotes. In the case of PaqCI, it is a Paucibacter aquatile strain isolated from freshwater of Nakdong River in South Korea. This is used to attack and cleave the plasmid DNA for the purposes of being able to, at a later stage, insert a known gene into the plasmid. The numbers in parentheses represent the beginning of a nucleotide base number where the palindromic regions start in the plasmid.
There are two parts of the diagram that we need to call attention to that are part of the manufacturing process for the sake of efficiency. The first, represented in green, are NeoR and KanR, which are genes that confer resistance to antibiotics. The researchers introduce those to enable efficient filtering at the end of the process. Researchers use an antibiotic to kill off the E.coli cells that have not integrated the gene of interest. The ones that did integrate are resistant to the antibiotic, and so survive to be injected into patients. The plasmid also contains Simian Virus 40 (SV40) which is used to enhance gene expression in E.coli cells. SV40 has strong transcriptional activity.
This is all fine and dandy, except that the manufacturing process produces mRNA vaccines full of residual DNA contamination from these plasmids. Students working at the FDA found DNA contamination 6 to 470 times higher than the FDA’s accepted limit. This is dangerous for multiple reasons. The contaminated plasmids contain an antibiotic resistance gene which can contribute to future antibiotic resistance in people. Imagine being infected with a super strain of E. Coli that the doctors cannot treat. The vaccines are also contaminated with SV40, which is a known oncogenic (cancer) promoter. While SV40 is very helpful to the manufacturing process, it should not end up as contamination in the final vial of a vaccine that will be injected into a healthy patient.
Neither E.coli nor SV40 should be contaminants present in vaccines, but, unfortunately, they absolutely are. If injecting healthy people with antibiotic resistant bacteria and cancer-causing Simian Virus is not your idea of promoting public health, then you are not alone.
However, It gets worse. In this work Dr. David J. Speicher tested covid vaccine vials from Pfizer and Moderna. His results were especially alarming in indicating that the mRNA vaccines have the ability to integrate into the human genome, something which the medical / scientific establishment assured us was absolutely impossible:
To date, preliminary work conducted in Germany has found evidence of genomic integration of the whole COVID-19 vaccine spike DNA open reading frame. After human ovarian cancer cells (OVCAR-3) were exposed in cell culture overnight to the Pfizer-modRNA vaccine, the whole SARS-CoV-2 spike DNA as sequenced in the Pfizer vaccine was found to have integrated into the genome at chromosomes 9 and 12. This study highlighted that integration of the DNA fragments in the Pfizer COVID-19 modRNA vaccine into the human genome is possible, and it is important to investigate whether integration can take place in primary cells in the vaccinated population
The image below is a reprint of my earlier “coffee hour” conversation starter, but with chromosomes 9 and 12 marked with a red line.
Spike protein from the plasmid integrating into the human genome would account for the observed continuous production of spike protein in the vaccinated. In a recent study published at Science Direct, spike protein expression was detected in 43.8% of vaccinated patients, and could persist in cerebral arteries up to 17 months post-vaccination. Remember news of all those embalmers finding weird, long clots in the arteries of the deceased? If the SV40 part of the plasmid DNA is integrating into the human genome, that would cause continuous production of SV40 enhancer which could account for all kinds of bizarre cancers.
This information was considered so pertinent that it caused the Florida Surgeon General to release a statement via the Florida Health Department website calling for a halt of the administration of mRNA vaccines. Dr. Lapado cited DNA contamination and integration into the very same chromosomes shown in the first picture of this article. This is otherwise known as genomic toxicity, which is simply a euphemism for cancer. As cancer is on the rise in the Western World, this could be the root cause.
At work I hear senior technologists, already working in the field of Cytogenetics for decades, constantly saying that we are getting bombarded with abnormal cases. They are seeing aberrations that they’ve never seen before, despite many years working in the field. Cytogenetic labs are hiring more people to manage the expanding workload.
The Ethical Skeptic, a well-regarded statistician on the social platform X, posted more recent cancer mortality data. The following graph, based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s WONDER online databases, shows excess mortality from malignant neoplasms (spreading tumors) “elevated 29% and still rising” for ages 0-54 through week 22 of 2024.
Before I continue, let me pause a moment and state that despite what I have previously written, I am not opposed to all use of DNA recombinant technology techniques. I am also not anti science and I did not write this article for the purpose of scaring people. I received many childhood vaccines that I wish I hadn’t. After schooling and reading, I’ve come to an earnest conclusion, on a good-will basis, of “no more” concerning vaccines. I haven’t received a vaccine since middle school, and I feel better and more clear than ever. I’ve become thoroughly convinced that at best they are unnecessary, and at worst damaging. Science (especially genetics, molecular biology, and biotechnology) is a passion of mine. I owe a debt of gratitude to many professors whose guidance has given me the foundation to understand these subjects and to think about them critically.
That means criticizing the failures, but also celebrating the successes. DNA recombinant technology has produced a great number of life saving medicines, including the first such drug, from a company called Genentech, that treated hemophilia. Originally, hemophiliacs were treated with injections of concentrated Factor VIII that was distilled out of thousands of liters of human blood. A single dose of the clotting factor was equivalent to a hundred blood transfusions. A typical patient with hemophilia was thus exposed to the condensed essence of blood from thousands of donors. In a world of AIDS and other blood-borne diseases, it was not difficult to foresee a better treatment had to be found. In the spring of 1983, Dave Goeddel at Genentech began to focus on cloning the Factor VIII gene. As with insulin, the logic behind the cloning effort was immediately evident: rather than purifying the missing clotting factor out of liters of human blood, why not create the protein artificially, using gene cloning? If Factor VIII could be produced through gene-cloning methods, it would be virtually free of any human contaminants, thereby rendering it inherently safer than any blood-derived protein.
By December 1983, researchers had assembled the entire necessary sequence and inserted the gene (clotting factor) into a plasmid, similar to the type of plasmid that was depicted earlier in the article. The plasmid was then introduced into hamster-derived ovary cells known for their ability to synthesize vast quantities of proteins. In January 1984, the first cargoes of Factor VIII began to appear in the tissue-culture fluid. In April, exactly two years after the first AIDS clusters had been reported in America, purified recombinant Factor VIII had been produced in test tubes—a blood-clotting factor untainted by human blood. In March 1987, Gilbert White, a hematologist, conducted the first clinical trial of the hamster-cell-derived recombinant Factor VIII at the Center for Thrombosis in North Carolina. The first patient to be treated was G.M., a forty-three-year-old man with hemophilia.
In 1978, (from left) Keiichi Itakura, Arthur Riggs, David Goeddel and Roberto Crea revolutionized diabetes treatment when, in collaboration with Genentech scientists, they used synthetic DNA chemistry and recombinant DNA technology to make a human insulin gene.
Are there potential problems with the Genentech treatment for hemophilia? Quite likely. Are the risks worth it? Yes, because hemophilia is a horrific disease that has few good treatment options. The cost-benefit analysis comes out in favor of the treatment.
However, we have been heretofore discussing injecting healthy individuals with pharmaceutical interventions for which a percentage of them will have genetic susceptibilities. There can be no positive cost-benefit analysis in such a situation, especially if no pre-injection screening is done. As I explained in a previous article:
Specific targeted treatments usually present a favorable risk-benefit ratio, where the benefits outweigh the potential side effects and toxicity. This is because the treatment is targeted toward individuals who are already suffering from a specific disease and have a high likelihood of developing severe consequences without treatment. In the case of a severe disease, even a substantial risk of toxicity could be acceptable if the treatment can cure a debilitating or potentially fatal disease.
However, when it comes to treatments for large populations, such as vaccines, we must consider the potential risks and side effects in a different manner entirely. This is because the intervention is not targeted toward individuals who are already suffering from a specific disease, but rather toward a population that may not necessarily even need the intervention. In the case of most mass treatments, almost any toxicity would be unjustifiable as there was nothing wrong with the individuals from the beginning, nor is there any certainty that anything will ever be wrong with them.
To have a chance of being beneficial and moral, therapies with potential side effects must be targeted at populations that are already actually ill. Further, therapies that rely on modifications to human DNA must be approached carefully and in a controlled manner. Unfortunately, we appear to be poised to fail on all fronts in those regards.
The human genome appears to be coming under more attack in light of Donald Trump’s Stargate announcement. This initiative seems to combine AI with mRNA. There is some promise here. In the best case scenario, if an individual is found through detection to have cancer, then this technology could be used to design a specific treatment targeted to the needs of that individual. This individualistic therapeutic route using AI seems reasonable, particularly depending on the severity of the cancer.
There are huge potential problems, however. What happens when Stargate announces it has created vaccines to prevent various types of cancer? As proven with the Covid mRNA vaccines, it is a very real possibility that entire populations, either by law or through social coercion (removal from jobs, school, society in general), will be forced to receive these vaccines. After all, who doesn’t want to cut the rates of cancer? But, of course, we know that injecting large numbers of people will cause all the same problems we have experienced with vaccines (traditional and mRNA) for decades. We could quickly find ourselves in a destructive positive feedback loop – mRNA vaccines cause cancer so the solution is more mRNA vaccines to cure the cancer that the mRNA vaccines caused in the first place.
There is also the potential for widespread, catastrophic impact on the human genome. The same, or even worse, that has occurred under current mRNA vaccines. DNA integration, perhaps even in a way that can be inherited by future human offspiring, is a real threat here. The more people you inject, the greater the danger. In truth, despite the frenzied assurances of the scientific and medical communities, we really don’t know what we are doing here.
I like the words of Nicole Shanahan, former VP candidate for RFK Jr, on the Megyn Kelly podcast:
“… we do need a moratorium on the mRNA for the time being. I understand how so many people are impressed by this, especially computer engineers, they think you can program the human body as you can an AI system as you can a computer system. The problem with that mentality is that, nature, we don’t even have models of how nature works and how our bodies interact with nature. There is an element to it when you intersect something like the mRNA vaccine. There is a huge amount of stochastic randomness that can occur”
I think Nicole is hitting on a very deep concept here. A lot of what we know about life science and molecular biology are really abstractions. We understand way less about reality than we pretend. To show you how dangerous this is, let’s use a different branch of science – classical physics. Up until relatively recently, physics was primarily focused on phenomena that can be observed with the naked eye, such as the motion of objects, the behavior of fluids and solids, and the propagation of light. Imagine making species-altering decisions on the basis of classical physics, only to later discover the existence of Quantum Physics that totally invalidates your previous decision-making matrix.
That is the situation we are currently in with respect to genetics. We don’t even know what we don’t know. There are levels and levels which we have only glimpsed, and even deeper ones that could exist, but of which we currently know nothing. Consider the work of Petr Petrovich Gariaev which has uncovered the possibility that the genome is actually a bio-computer capable of quantum broadcasting:
“Protein biosynthesis is a key, but not the only basic information function of chromosomes. There are other, no less important, holographic and quantum non-locality functions related to morphogenesis. In this plane, the work of the genome, as a quantum bio-computer, occurs on the wave level. Here the main function is regulatory quantum broadcasting of genetic-metabolic information on the intercellular, tissue and organism levels using a coherent photon DNA radiation and its nonlinear vibrational states (sound). DNA information presents it-self in the form of dynamically polarized holograms as well as phantom DNA structures.”
Did you understand that previous paragraph? Don’t worry. I didn’t either. Most scientists will be equally clueless, including the credentialed talking heads featured on the news channels and your favorite podcasts. As will your family doctor. You are routinely taking advice, with potentially serious consequences, from people who are not only not on the “cutting edge of science”, but who don’t even understand the “cutting edge of science.”
Peter Petrovich Gariaev’s work involving “phantom DNA” appears to point the way to promising therapies using “healing wave” information:
…along with European and American scientists captured “phantom” DNA and performed experiments healing rat enodcrine pancreas cells by using “healing wave information … by a laser bio-computer when the laser beam scanned the healing matrix. And this healing matrix was created when the bio-computer read information from the pancreas and spleen which were surgically removed from healthy newborn rats of the same species as those used in the alloxan experiments.”
Imagine inflicting all kinds of harm on innocent people in the name of medicine, only to discover that better techniques were available the entire time? Only in our rush to create and market profitable new therapies, we didn’t give them enough time for development?
I once picked up a book by Anthropologist Jeremy Narby titled The Cosmic Serpent – DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. Although I wouldn’t endorse everything the author said, or everything he did research wise, I did find some compelling excerpts from this books full of interesting ideas:
“Scientists have found spread out among the non-coding parts of the text a great number of endlessly repeated sequences with no apparent meaning, and even palindromes, which are words or sentences that can be read in either direction. They have called this apparent gibberish, which constitutes the overwhelming majority of the genome, “junk DNA.” There is even a 300-letter sequence that is repeated a total of half a million times. All told, repeat sequences make up a full third of the genome. Their meaning, so far, is unknown.”
“Even DNA’s emission of photons remains mysterious, and no one has been able to establish its mechanism directly. Naked DNA, extracted from the cell’s nucleus, emits photons so weakly as to escape measurement.
“I was also troubled by the certitude exhibited by most biologists in the face of the profoundly mysterious reality they were describing. After all, the spectacular accomplishments of molecular biology during the second half of the twentieth century had led to more questions than answers. This is an old problem: Knowledge calls for more knowledge, or, as Jean Piaget wrote, “The most developed science remains a continual becoming.”
Yet few biological texts discuss the unknown. Take proteins, for instance. These long chains of amino acids, strung together in the order specified by DNA, accomplish almost all the essential tasks in cells. They catch molecules and build them into cellular structures or take them apart to extract their energy. They carry atoms to precise places inside or outside the cell. They act as pumps or motors. They form receptors that trap highly specific molecules or antennae that conduct electrical charges. Like versatile marionettes, or jacks-of-all-trades, they twist, fold, and stretch into the shape their task requires.
What is known, precisely, about these dear “self-assembling machines”? According to Alwyn Scott, a mathematician “with an interest in molecular biology: “Biologists’ understanding of how proteins function is a lot like your and my understanding of how a car works. We know you put in gas, and the gas is burned to make things turn, but the details are all pretty vague.”
Enzymes are large proteins that accelerate cellular activities. They act with disarming speed and selectivity. One enzyme in human blood, carbonic anhydrase, can assemble single-handedly over a half million molecules of carbonic acid per second. The enzymes which both repair the double helix in case of damage, and correct any errors in the DNA replication process, make only one mistake every ten billion letters. Enzymes read the DNA text, transcribe it into RNA, edit out the non-coding passages, splice together the final message, construct the machines that read the instructions and “build … other enzymes. What is known, precisely, about these molecular automata”? According to biologists Chris Calladine and Horace Drew: “These enzymes are extremely efficient in doing their job, yet no one knows exactly how they work.” – Excerpt From: Jeremy Narby. The Cosmic Serpent. Apple Books.
With the limits of our knowledge, do we really want to turn pharmaceutical companies, possibly guided by prone-to-hallucinate AI, loose on the human genome on a large scale? Do you want gene-selected, gene-edited babies to be the norm? Do you want to risk having large populations potentially carrying debilitating non-human DNA for the rest of their lives? Worse, what if this DNA contamination can be inherited by future generations?
Worse still, suppose you did all that only to discover, through future research, that your underlying abstract models were wrong from the beginning? The truth, it turns out, is that you hurt all those people for nothing more than a payday?
It is profoundly immoral to usurp the role of God, whose design for DNA (before the Fall) was absolutely perfect. It is also, as I have hopefully shown, profoundly dangerous. Scientists and the pharmaceutical industry have neither the humility nor the patience to pause and research before rushing new (profitable) therapies to market. So that onus is on us, in all of our human roles.
As individuals, we should follow the teaching of the Orthodox Church, which provides us guidance on how to live the healthiest, most natural lives possible. Pray, fast often, be obedient to our spiritual fathers, attend regular confessions, attend church services, read daily, pray daily, and perform good deeds. The only advice in which the Orthodox Church fails is concerning vaccines. Far too many spiritual authorities are pro mass vaccination, a position that is impossible to justify. No one should accept any medical treatment unless he or she is actually sick.
Those of us in the scientific and medical communities have to speak up more. The Covid vaccine results should have taught us caution, but so far they have not. We are still moving full speed ahead, even continuing to offer existing mRNA vaccines which we know to be dangerous. It is up to us to provide balance to the more “enthusiastic” members of our scientific and medical communities.
As citizens, we need to clean out our regulatory agencies which are fully captured by the Pharmaceutical industry. This is a fight that will be ongoing as long as there are billions to be made from new drugs. Side effects hurting individual people are bad enough, but the stakes are even greater now. When a branch of science has the potential to change what it means to be human, it needs all the oversight we can give it.
