Thread by @JoshWalkos

The Hotez Thread 🧵

I thought it would be fun to journey into the past a bit to learn more about everyone's favorite TV Pharmaceutical Industry spokesperson's career.

It all starts in the year 1989 when this fine young gentlemen got his first post-doctoral award from none other than everyone's favorite Pharmaceutical company Pfizer. This $100k award allowed him to continue his experiments to develop a human hookworm vaccine, they failed.

I know this is extremely hard to believe but Pete owes much of his success to three men, Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates and Bill Clinton. In 1996, Fauci approved a $2.9M NIAID grant for Hotez to study tropical diseases, carrying on a program that began in the Rockefeller Foundation.

The same Rockefeller Foundation that a century earlier was funding the Eugenics movement that was widely popular among the America aristocracy and then adopted by this guy named Adolph Hitler in Germany.

Pete would coin the term "neglected tropical diseases" and would sometimes call what he was working on "anti-poverty vaccines". Although Pete admitted that most of these diseases exist because of poverty.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29393710/

Rather than address root causes, Pete has spawned a neglected tropical disease industrial complex, dependent on the perpetual poverty that he claims his pharmaceutical products combat.

In 2000, with $18 million from the Gates Foundation, he founded his own department in George Washington University and the Sabin Vaccine Institute started the Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative to continue its development.

gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-ce…

Miraculously in 2003, he was a Pfizer-visiting professor in tropical diseases at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. What are the odds?

That same year Pete began work on a coronavirus vaccine but he had to shelve the project because unfortunately for him SARS flamed out and didn't claim enough lives to obtain more funding. Sad Pete :( nbcnews.com/health/health-…

Not to be deterred, Pete pulled up his boot straps paid for by Pfizer and began devoting his time to the development of drugs to test on underdeveloped and hyper exploited countries in Latin America, Africa & South Asia.

Hotez wrote in 2004, “with funding from the Gates Foundation, I believe that we can have in hand over the next decade vaccines from malaria, dengue and hookworm.” He was wrong about that prediction, one of many.

Nonetheless praise from Bill "One of the Foundation’s key partners, Professor Peter Hotez, who’s doing inspiring work on tropical diseases and we’re very excited about being able to back some breakthroughs there and have a huge impact." -Bill Gates
gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-ce…

Let's jump ahead to 2012 when our lord and savior Anthony Fauci funded Pete with a 6 year, $6,060,973 grant to develop a SARS-CoV Vaccine using the SARS-CoV Spike Protein.

From the grant: SARS outbreaks remain a serious concern mainly due to possible zoonotic reintroduction of SARS-CoV into humans, ACCIDENTAL RELEASE FROM A LABORATORY OR DELIBERATE SPREADING OF THE VIRUS BY A BIO-TERRORIST ATTACK."
reporter.nih.gov/search/WNMviEk…

“The cell bank production, production processes and the formulation technology for the rRBD-based SARS vaccine will be transferred to Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) pilot facility for 60-L scale GMP manufacture, formulation and fill and finish."

Here are the project numbers and funding by Fiscal Year.

In 2014, President Obama named Hotez as U.S. Science Envoy to implement what he called vaccine diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa.

tamest.org/news/newsmy-ac…

Hotez wrote:
“Vaccine science diplomacy could also lead to the development and testing of some highly-innovated neglected disease vaccines”

“poor populations [..] have rights to biomedical innovation”

journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…

The same year Pete was named science envoy Ebola became the next global threat.

“Ebola fears throughout the country, experts now warning of the unavoidable spread of the virus in Europe and what happened to that vaccine for Ebola.”

reuters.com/article/us-hea…

Obama responded to the "Ebola Threat" by announcing a military command center in Liberia.
.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-offi…

"At the request of the Liberian government, we’re going to establish a military command center in Liberia to support civilian efforts across the region -- similar to our response after the Haiti earthquake. It’s going to be commanded by Major General Darryl Williams"

Obama sought $6 billion to support these efforts.

“Our scientists continued their urgent research in the hope of finding new treatments and perhaps vaccines, and today I’m calling on Congress to approve the funding that we’ve requested.”

obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/realitycheck/t…

This was to be a boon for the pharmaceutical industry but required medical experiments that were highly unethical. A prominent Bioethicist, G. Kevin Donovan, MD, MA, Director of the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University Medical Center, spoke out.

“These drugs have never been tested in humans. Therefore the dangerous and adverse effects can neither be known nor safely predicted. It’s entirely possible they may be ineffective or even harmful."

Continued: "What has been done here is not research, but rather it is scary, experimental treatment. Some of these misadventures occurred on the African continent, leading to a pervasive distrust of Western drug companies using Africans as their experimental guinea pigs."

Though Ebola eventually subsided without any vaccines, Hotez and the Sabin Institute have continued developing them along with other products. In September 2022, he attempted to again rebrand his experimental pharmaceutical products. This time as Malnutrition Vaccines, claiming that, “approval processes could be accelerated to help avert an imminent food catastrophe or even potential mass starvation events. We must begin this process imminently.”

Let's recap shall we? To date, Hotez has received:
-$4.2 million from Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim’s Foundation
-$9.6 million from Fauci’s NIAID
-$44 million from the Gates Foundation
He continues to maintain close relationships with pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer and Eli Lilly.

Hotez’s own 2012 to 2017 NIH grant for the development of a SARS vaccine had the stated aim of responding to any “accidental release from a laboratory,” in addition to a possible zoonotic spillover of the virus.

As part of his NIH grant, Hotez subcontracted funding for research on combined or “chimeric” coronaviruses, a scientific paper shows. Hotez’s grant underwrote two of Shi’s collaborators on the project. [Shi headed the Wuhan lab’s coronavirus modification project].
In the 2017 paper co-funded by Hotez, Shi and her colleagues generated a recombinant virus from two SARS-related coronaviruses: “rWIV1-SHC014S.”

The article also showed how Hotez worked over and over to cover up the possibility SARS-CoV-2 could have come from a lab. Given how bad the PR would be for him if this became known, his behavior is somewhat understandable.

“This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81290341, 31621061 to Zheng-Li Shi), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDPB0301 to Zheng-Li Shi), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of National Institutes of Health grant (R01AI110964 to Zheng-Li Shi), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC1201000 to Shibo Jiang) and NIH grant (R01AI098775 to Shibo Jiang and Lanying Du).”

Hotez’ Sabin Institute is now at Baylor University in Houston, Texas. Flush with funding from the Gates Foundation despite having never succeeded in developing a working vaccine.

In the era of COVID-19, Hotez has become one of the most aggressive ideologues of the emergent biomedical security complex demanding questioning be censored, and criticism criminalized.

I'll leave you with a passage from @RobertKennedyJr's "The Real Anthony Fauci" which I think perfectly explains the situation we find ourselves in with all of these paid experts.

"These “experts”—Paul Offit, Peter Hotez, Stanley Plotkin, Ian Lipkin, William Schaffner, Kathleen Edwards, Arthur Caplan, Stanley Katz, Greg Poland, and Andrew Pollard—appear between Pharma ads on network and cable news shows to promote the annual flu shots and measles scares, to drum up fears about COVID, and to rail against “anti-vaxxers.” They write the steady stream of editorials that appear in local and national newspapers to reinforce the hackneyed orthodoxies of the pharmaceutical paradigms—“all vaccines are safe and effective,” etc. They root out heresy by sitting on the state medical boards—the “Inquisition” courts—that censure and de-license dissident doctors. They control the medical journals and peer-review journal literature to fortify Pharma’s agenda. They teach on medical school faculties, populate journal editorial boards, and chair university departments. They supervise hospitals and chair hospital departments. They act as expert witnesses for pharmaceutical companies in civil court and the federal vaccine court. They present awards to one another."

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