Activist Post
Media coverage is now focusing on the experimental Ebola treatments
being given to two American Ebola patients who contracted it while
caring for victims in Africa — the site of the world's
deadliest outbreak.
But that Ebola treatment, created by a leading bioengineering scientist
from the University of Arizona who "joked" about wiping out humanity
with a "better" genetically engineered virus during a post-lecture
Q&A focused on over-population issues, citing the Hollywood film '
Contagion.'
As Truthstream Media previously reported, on February 2, 2012, Dr.
Charles Arntzen, head of The Biodesign Institute for Infectious Diseases
and Vaccinology, responded to a question pertaining to whether feeding
the 8 billion people of the world was worth it, or whether population
reduction should be pursued.
The scientist quipped:
“Has anybody seen ‘Contagion’? That’s the answer! Go out and use genetic
engineering to create a better virus… 25 percent of the population is
supposed to go in Contagion.”
While this comment was made prior to the current Ebola outbreak fears,
it is unsettling given the high level projects Dr. Arntzen has worked on
for DARPA, as well as private biotech research. Among these are
storable genetically engineered Anthrax vaccines for use during
a biological attack,
an edible vaccine with genetically engineered medicine/vitamins grown
into foods like bananas and even work supporting efforts by EpiCyte to
create a spermicidal anti-bodies grown in corn to slow human
reproduction.
Statements like these hardly convey trust in a process that is already
less than transparent and prone to speculation, various states of unrest
and panic on the part of the public. The Daily Mail reported that much
of the local population in Sierra Leone have been distrustful of medical
workers there and blamed the deaths on a 'government conspiracy'
Someone casually remarking on culling some 25% of the population with a
bioweapon is THE LAST PERSON you'd want to trust with creating an
already dangerous countermeasure to Ebola, which carries a death rate as
high as 90%.
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