Redfield and Birx: Can they be trusted with COVID?
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Chairman, Children’s Health Defense
U.S. military documents show that, in 1992, the CDC’s current Director Robert Redfield and his then-assistant, Deborah Birx—both Army medical officers—knowingly falsified scientific data published in the New England Journal of Medicine fraudulently claiming that an HIV vaccine they helped develop was effective. They knew the vaccine was worthless.
Redfield now runs the agency charged with mandating COVID vaccines. Birx, a life-long protégé to both Redfield and Anthony Fauci, served on the board of Bill Gates’ Global Fund. Redfield, Birx and Fauci lead the White House coronavirus task force.
A subsequent Air Force tribunal on Scientific Fraud and Misconduct agreed that Redfield’s misleading or, possibly, deceptive information seriously threatens his credibility as a researcher …
In 1992, two military investigators charged Redfield and Birx with engaging in “a systematic pattern of data manipulation, inappropriate statistical analyses and misleading data presentation in an apparent attempt to promote the usefulness of the GP160 AIDS vaccine.” A subsequent Air Force tribunal on Scientific Fraud and Misconduct agreed that Redfield’s “misleading or, possibly, deceptive” information “seriously threatens his credibility as a researcher and has the potential to negatively impact AIDS research funding for military institutions as a whole. His allegedly unethical behavior creates false hope and could result in premature deployment of the vaccine.”
The tribunal recommended investigation by a “fully independent outside investigative body.” Dr. Redfield confessed to D.O.D. interrogators and to the tribunal, that his analyses were faulty and deceptive. He agreed to publicly correct them. Afterward, he continued making his false claims at three subsequent international HIV conferences, and perjured himself in testimony before Congress, swearing that his vaccine cured HIV.
Their gambit worked. Based upon his testimony, Congress appropriated $20 million to the military to support Redfield and Birx’s research project. Public Citizen complained in a 1994 letter to the Congressional Committee’s Henry Waxman that the money caused the Army to kill the investigation and “whitewash” Redfield’s crimes. The fraud propelled Birx and Redfield into stellar careers as health officials.
When I was little, my grandmother used to sing the Dinah Washington song, “What a difference a day makes, twenty-four little hours…” Later, memories of her singing those lyrics carried me through some of my toughest days of tick-borne illness. They remind me even today that I just need to get through the next hour, the next minute, because things could be better tomorrow.
Sometimes they were better. A Herxheimer reaction might settle, a solid night’s sleep might lower my emotional temperature, or my actual fever might go down. And sometimes, the tomorrows weren’t much better. When I first started intravenous antibiotics, I felt horrible for six weeks before noticing any improvement. Often the next day was worse than the last. I learned that while I could coach myself to survive each minute or second, I had to wait longer to really live again and even longer to thrive, which was my desire. For that type of progress, it was better to chart my improvement over months, if not years. Check here for an overview of some of my long-term recovery strategies.
Birthdays are always a nice time to reflect on the year passed, and this has been especially true since I’ve been sick with chronic Lyme, two tick-borne co-infections—babesia, ehrlichia—and Epstein-Barr virus. A lot can happen in a year, both good and bad. We never know what joys or sorrows await us. Lyme patients don’t know how they’ll respond to treatment or how long it will take them to feel better. For many, though, they can see real progress—with dips and valleys—over a year or more.
I was thinking back to my 29th birthday recently, when I was in the midst of a relapse. Sick and exhausted, I wondered if I could endure further treatment. I struggled with my self-esteem. Frankly, there didn’t seem to be much to celebrate.
But flash forward a year to my 30th birthday party. I worea pretty pink dress. I was surrounded by friends and family. I was smiling, my cheeks glowing, with much to celebrate: a return to remission, to independent living and the resumption of freelance work. However, improvement over that year was by no means linear. I had many bad days, sometimes weeks. But when I considered the headway I made between my 29th and 30th birthdays, all I could think was, “What a difference a year makes.”
When I blew out the candles that year, I wished for continued health, for my life to keep blossoming—and it did. A couple years later, I moved to Boston and started graduate school. In the decade since, I’ve written two books and forged a teaching career. I have gotten back on my skis. I have also wrestled brief flare-ups of my illnesses, grieved the death of loved ones and mourned the loss of love. Those have been my low points, but when I see how many gains I’ve made over the last decade—and how much my stamina has improved—I want to pinch myself. I can hardly believe it.
As I blew out my candles last year, I never could have imagined the world would be in the midst of a global pandemic by my next birthday. But I also couldn’t have imagined all of the good things that have happened to me this year, including landing a literary agent, surviving COVID-19 despite my underlying health conditions. And thus, I hold onto hope—for me, for you, for the Lyme community, for our world.
When I blow out my birthday candles this week I’ll wish for a healthier year for all of us. I hope that by this time next year, I’ll be able to celebrate that wish coming true.
Opinions expressed by contributors are their own.
Jennifer Crystal is a writer and educator in Boston. Her memoir about her medical journey is forthcoming. Contact her at lymewarriorjennifercrystal@gmail.com.
Well, that made my day! I love to see patients improve. If you are having a rough day, month, or year – hang tight. It will get better in time.
WAUSAU, Wis. (WAOW) — A mild winter combined with a larger population of deer in Wisconsin this year could mean more ticks to look out for.
Experts at the Tick-Borne Illness Center of Excellence in Woodruff treat people from across the country, but they say Northern Wisconsin stands out.
“It is a highly prevalent area for wood tick diseases and deer tick diseases,” said center manager Kathy McCaughan.
This year, experts say they’re seeing the impact of a mild winter.
“The ticks really don’t go away in the winter they just go underneath the leaves and the snow kind of insulates them and the first tick that we had reported here was the beginning of March already,” said Clinic Program Director Connie Campbell.
Combine that with a higher deer population and more people outside, there could be a higher risk of spreading lyme disease.
“Now with COVID, everyone is out and about a little bit trying to get fresh air, just kinda be vigilant,” said Campbell. “You wear light-colored clothing so that you can spot them really easily, deet helps but you don’t spray it on your skin you spray it on your clothes.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also says to tuck your pants into your socks when you’re going out and perform a tick check when you get back home.
But this doesn’t fit the climate change narrative that keeps being pushed upon us. Right now, climate change is a popular topic so if researchers want grant money they put that moniker in their work so they obtain money. Even if it’s untrue.
The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same.
GETTY / THE ATLANTICThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is conflating the results of two different types of coronavirus tests, distorting several important metrics and providing the country with an inaccurate picture of the state of the pandemic.We’ve learned that the CDC is making, at best, a debilitating mistake: combining test results that diagnose current coronavirus infections with test results that measure whether someone has ever had the virus.The upshot is that the government’s disease-fighting agency is overstating the country’s ability to test people who are sick with COVID-19. The agency confirmed to The Atlantic on Wednesday that it is mixing the results of viral and antibody tests, even though the two tests reveal different information and are used for different reasons. (See link for article)___________________**Comment**Important quote:
This is not merely a technical error. States have set quantitative guidelines for reopening their economies based on these flawed data points.
And there you have it for anyone who still cares.
The important take-away from this article is that the CDC is up to its usual bag of tricks. It just changed language on its website from stating that only viral tests are used in its figures to omitting all reference to the type of tests being used, but states:
“These data are compiled from a number of sources,” the new version read. The text strongly implied that both types of tests were included in the count, but did not explicitly say so.
The CDC loves to change parameters for its own purposes.
The article then goes on to show the reason for this change in language. The data had become more favorable showing about 1.5 million positive test results. After the CDC language change, the positive rate plummeted to 52,429.
The language change also concerns Ashish Jha, the K. T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard and the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, because antibody tests typically have a lower percent-positive rate than viral tests. Blending the two types of tests will dramatically drive the positive rate down – it also makes them both “uninterpretable.”
Why would the CDC purposely want to drive the positive rate down?
Could it be to propel the “viral mania” and fear seen in everyone’s eyes? Could it be used to support the continuing draconian measures and the push for an unsafe vaccine which is riddled with problems but can track everyone’s movements?
The article also states that places where the rate of new infections aren’t falling are among the states blending the two types of testing.
Keep that fact in mind when you look at the maps reporting case counts.
What’s sad is the damage is done and most will never hear this update.
A great explanation of the two tests is given in the first article as well as the comparison of viral testing that’s used to understand how many people are getting infected, vs. antibody testing which looks back at the overall picture.
But this is all assuming the tests are accurate in the first place, which they are not.
The most common COVID-19 test, the nasal swab test, has an accuracy rate as low as 70%.
Regarding antibody testing, a report by more than 50 scientists found that only three out of 14 antibody tests gave consistently reliable results, andeven the best had flaws.
Accuracy data only become available in a database after the FDA connects real-work experiences, but after “approval” has already been given. In other words, you are the Guinea Pig providing the “real world data.”
95% of the data comes from manufacturers while only 5% come from doctors and patients. See the problem?
CDC Crimes: Possible Sherman Provisions and Clayton Acts Violated By Dr. Martin
Dr. Martin received his undergraduate (BA) from Goshen College, his Masters of Science from Ball State University, and his Doctorate (PhD) from the University of Virginia. https://www.davidmartin.world/about/
April 28, 2020
Starting at 8:50: CDC and NIAID led by Dr. Fauci – entered into trade among states including but not limited to a corporation called Ecohealth Alliance Inc. and with foreign governments and entities, in direct violation of the Sherman Act Provisions specifically, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences through the 2014 NIAID Grant R01AI110964.This is commercial activity involving an illegal asset entered into interstate and international commerce in violation of the Sherman Act.
Further, the CDC and NIAID entered into trade among states including but not limited to working with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and with foreign nations, specifically the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences represented by Zheng-Li Shi through 019A1109761 (Ralph S. Baric), U19AI107810 (Ralph S. Baric), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China Award 81290341 Zheng-Li Shi et al. 2015-2016.
CDC knew and willfully engaged a foreign interest to carry forward the exploitation of their proprietary technology after the U.S supreme court rendered it illegal after the 2013 ruling to stop corona virus research.
Fort Derrick was shut down by CDC due to the exact same safety violations the Wuhan Institute had but was allowed to continue on.
In January 2020, the CDC tested over 200 suspected COVID-19 cases which was not approved by the FDA for emergency use until Feb 4.One can only conclude the CDC had the mechanism and the where withal to conduct tests to determine the existence of a novel coronavirus.
From 2003 until today the CDC illegally held and maintained a patent on the virus and the test. The CDC has an illegal monopoly, restrained trade, and violated both the Sherman and Clayton Act.
March 12, 2020 – Fauci elected to suspend testing as a requirement to label a patient as COVID-19.This liberalization of suspected cases needed to be created to insight fear.
True cases of COVID-19 were never capable of being independently verified because of an illegal action taken by the CDC.
March 15, 2020 the Patriot Act expired.Dr. Fauci, the CDC, and the co-conspiring governors are guilty of violating the domestic terrorism provision under the Patriot Act.Anyone who instituted a lock down order based on subjective determinations prior to March 15, 2020 violated the Patriot Act Section 802.
Feb 17, 2014 – CDC renewed their illegal patents and violated Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution.By renewing their patents the CDC willfully violated the law using tax payer funds in light of the June 13, 2013 Supreme Court ruling.
There is no protection for a governor of any state to suspend civil liberties on the “threat” of a pandemic. The science of COVID-19 could not be verified without infringing upon the CDC’s illegal patent or without their collusion.There is no confirmed serology or confirmed immunologic evidence to substantiate a pandemic – which violates our rights.
To date there is no empirical data supporting social distancing measures.
Fauci, NIAID director, sits on the Gates Foundation and Leah Devlon, on CDC board, also is a faculty member of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.They should be investigated under 15 U.S code Section 19 for the prohibition of interlocking directorates.
Seventeen years have passed since the CDC colluded and restricted the ability to get normative data on the prevalence of COVID-19.We still don’t have the data because of a criminal conspiracy.
There is no evidence to suggest we are in a pandemic.
What Can You Do? Draft a Letter to ACLU, U.S. Attorney for Your District, Congressman/Woman/Senator/Attorney General
Sample letter –
To Whom It May Concern:
The Declaration of a State of Emergency and the ensuing lockdown – which exempts persons deemed “essential” without any basis in scientific fact or in Critical Infrastructure definition under the U.S. DHS –violates the legal standard set forth in Jew Ho v. Williamson, 103 F. 10, 26 (C.C.N.D. Cal. 1900). Due to the facts outlined here:http://www.invertedalchemy.com/2020/0… 1.
The Governor of Wisconsin could not have known that there was a virulent outbreak caused by a single pathogen (reportedly SARS CoV-2) when declaring the State of Emergency.
No scientific evidence has been offered justifying the declaration – mere reporting of mortality and morbidity based on pneumonia symptoms does not an epidemic or pandemic make.
The Governor failed to provide adequate testing to confirm or deny the presence or absence of “a novel coronavirus” and, based on recent reports from incarcerated persons, it would appear that positive tests COULD NOT have been based on community transmission as 96% of confined persons have tested positive according to Reuters.
No effort has been made by the Governor or regional health authorities to overturn the established science published in JAMA that facemasks should not be worn by healthy individuals (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama…) and that social distancing that involves the confinement of healthy individuals has neither been tested nor validated with any science whatsoever.
Congress needs to repeal the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 so that the government agencies entrusted with public health do not have conflicts of interest in owning patents. Research institutions at universities should not be colluding with government by receiving government money. The two need to be separate.
From 2003 to today, the CDC has illegally held and maintained a patent on the virus and the test which means the CDC has an illegal monopoly, restrained trade, and violated both the Sherman and Clayton Acts.
There is much to indicate the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), led by Dr. Fauci, knew and willfully engaged a foreign interest to carry forward the exploitation of their proprietary technology after the U.S. Supreme Court rendered it illegal after a 2013 ruling.
Fort Derrick was shut down by the CDC for the exact same safety violations violated by the Wuhan Institute that Dr. Fauci spent nearly 4 million dollars of taxpayer money on to circumvent the 2013 moratorium on coronavirus research.
True cases of COVID-19 have never been independently verified due to the CDC’s illegal actions. There is no confirmed serology or immunologic evidence to suggest we are in a pandemic, which violates our rights.
Any governor who suspended civil liberties prior to March 15, 2020 due to the “threat” of a pandemic is guilty of violating the domestic terrorism provision under the Patriot Act Section 802.
Authorities have ignored a real pandemic caused by Lyme disease and the many coinfections that come with it. They have rigged the diagnostic test for their own patent purposes and continue to control a rigged narrative keeping people from proper diagnosis and treatment. This travesty has gone on for over 40 years without a sign of changing, despite an investigation into the bioweaponization of ticks being dropped from airplanes.
Protecting public health can not happen until government entities entrusted with public health are no longer allowed to own patents and directly compete with the private sector. The conflicts of interest, collusion, and fraud must end.
I kindly request that you take this matter up on behalf of the Citizens of Wisconsin.
