Dr. Tom Jefferson
[2009 Dec] World Health Organisation ‘Mr Swine Flu’
Under Investigation for Gross Conflict of Interest In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine in Germany, epidemiologist
Dr. Tom Jefferson of the Cochrane Collaboration, an organization of independent
scientists evaluating all flu related studies, noted the implications of the
privatization of WHO and the commercialization of health:
“…one of the extraordinary features of this influenza -- and the whole
influenza saga -- is that there are some people who make predictions year after
year, and they get worse and worse. None of them so far have come about, and
these people are still there making these predictions. For example, what
happened with the bird flu, which was supposed to kill us all? Nothing. But that
doesn't stop these people from always making their predictions. Sometimes you
get the feeling that there is a whole industry almost waiting for a pandemic to
occur. SPIEGEL: Who do you mean? The World Health Organization (WHO)?
Jefferson: The WHO and public health officials, virologists and the
pharmaceutical companies. They've built this machine around the impending
pandemic. And there's a lot of money involved, and influence, and careers, and
entire institutions! And all it took was one of these influenza viruses to
mutate to start the machine grinding...
When asked if the WHO had deliberately declared the Pandemic Emergency in order
to create a huge market for H1N1 vaccines and drugs, Jefferson replied,
“Don't you think there's something noteworthy about the fact that the WHO
has changed its definition of pandemic? The old definition was a new virus,
which went around quickly, for which you didn't have immunity, and which created
a high morbidity and mortality rate. Now the last two have been dropped, and
that's how swine flu has been categorized as a pandemic.”