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Immunology, Ideology, Power
In 2005, experiments showed that injecting
the spike protein from a corona virus caused
lungs to fail (Kuba, et al.), and that antibodies
formed to the spike protein damaged the lungs
(Lin, et al.). For several decades, it has been
common knowledge that autoimmune disease
(such as “rheumatic fever”) could result from
the cross reaction of antibodies with microbial
antigens and antigens on the person’s tissues.
Recent studies are confirming the risk of
autoimmune disease from antibodies to the
covid spike protein. One cross-reaction with
the spike protein is the lung surfactant protein
(Vojdania and Kharraian, 2020; Talotta, 2021).
Cross-reactive antibodies and autoimmune
processes are also involved in cancer and
infertility.
With both the spike protein and the
antibodies to it producing such deadly effects,
using it in a vaccine to protect against the
corona virus would have seemed crazy to
anyone following immunological and virologi-
cal research after 2005, and the thought of
implanting a nucleic acid to cause the body to
produce the spike protein would have seemed
like criminal insanity at that time. Just 12 years
later, big corporations and their government
supporters found it convenient to forget the
recent science. For example, in 2017 the chief
medical officer of the Moderna corporation
gave a talk about what a nifty and simple idea
if would be to cause the body to produce its
own vaccine. Describing the process, he said
“So, here’s all the biology you need to know
in 30 seconds.” For the corporations and the
public health officials, that’s all the biology
they want to know, and all they want the
public to know.
In the immunity that results from interac-
tions with pathogenic organisms, and in the
immunity produced by a traditional vaccine
made from killed or weakened pathogens, the
body forms antibodies to many parts of the
potentially harmful organism. The result is
that we accumulate a great variety of antibod-
ies to multiple pathogens, and in the case of
corona viruses, children accumulate additional
immunity each time they have a cold. This
means that almost all children and adults are
immune to a great variety of corona viruses.
At birth, there are natural antibodies, that
developed along with the differentiation of
tissues. Naturally, they don’t inactivate the
body’s own tissues; they persist through life,
but decrease with aging, increasing the
susceptibility to infections and to loss of
normal functions (Palma, et al., 2018). They
apparently serve to protect tissues, recognizing
and eliminating deviations from normal
(Britschgi, et al., 2009). Their existence has
been generally accepted only in recent
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decades; their existence creates difficulties for
the dominant theory of immunity.
With natural antibodies, the issue of cross-
reactive antibodies and autoimmunity doesn’t
exist, but when the specialized adaptive
antibodies are produced, cross-reactivity is
always a problem—other organisms vary in
their tissue antigens, and antibodies binding to
those will have varying degrees of cross-
reactive affinity for our own tissues. For
example, the lactobacilli that thrive in women
during their fertile years have some antigens
that resemble human connective tissues, and
it’s possible that they are a factor in diseases
such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis that are
prevalent in women especially during those
years. Any infection or vaccination, especially
when there’s an excess of estrogen or a
deficiency of antiinflammatory factors, can
permanently damage your health.
The first two people in the U.S. reported to
have died from “covid,” at the end of
February, 2020 were in their 80s and 90s, in an
extended care home in the Tacoma, Washing-
ton area, and within a few days a third death
was also said to have been caused by covid;
their deaths were attributed to covid on the
basis of a PCR test that, despite not having
been validated as tests normally are, had just
been authorized for use under a newly adopted
Emergency Use Authorization. Secretary of
Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, had
declared a Public Health Emergency on
January 31, 2020. The fact that the WHO
recommended, and the CDC ordered, the
operation of the test at 40 to 45 cycles, known
to produce mostly false positive results was
widely noticed: as testing increased nationally
beginning in March, the incidence of “cases of
covid” increased at the same rate as the testing.
The “test epidemic” served to create an eager-
ness to get the inoculation. Exactly a year after
the WHO had begun promoting the testing
method of Christian Drosten, with instructions
to misuse it, the inoculation campaign was
underway, and the WHO changed its instruc-
tions, reducing the number of cycles—with
the obvious intention of creating an impres-
sion that the inoculations were lowering the
rate of infection, as the number of false
positive results was immediately reduced.
In the late 19th century Paul Ehrlich,
working with the German dye industry,
noticed that different bacteria and tissues
varied in their affinities for coal tar dyes. He
reasoned that the ability of some dyes to kill
certain pathogenic organisms was analogous
to specific immunity, such as demonstrated by
vaccination. He extended his dye-binding
theory to the use of arsphenamine (Salvarsan,
Compound 606) to treat trypanosomiasis and
syphilis. His Nobel lecture (1908) was a
detailed description of a theory in which tissue
and chemical side chains were similarly
responsible for the therapeutic effects of drugs
and the protective effects of antibodies. His
theory made the “magic bullet” idea of drug
therapy popular, reinforcing the idea that each
disease has its specific drug remedy.
The power of the drug industry was able to
make that idea central to medicine, and it
shaped thinking about vaccines for the next
century.
Metchnikov’s 1908 Nobel lecture wasn’t
just about phagocytosis, it was an alternative
view of immunity as a pervasive multi-level
process, involving learning and tissue mainte-
nance as well as specific elimination of patho-
gens. It was either ignored or disparaged by
medical researchers until the end of the 20th
century. He said that at the present time, he
knew of only one substance that could assist
the innate immune system, and that was
quinine. Recent studies relating to a single
kind of cell sensor, the Toll-Like Receptors
(TLRs), have found that quinine reduces their
activation of cytokines and antibodies. Angio-
tensin, the covid virus (Sarius and Perlman,
2021), endotoxin, estrogen, and ionizing
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radiation have opposite effects, activating
TLRs and increasing cytokine and antibody
production.
In Metchnikov’s time, chloroquine and
hydroxychloroquine hadn’t been synthesized
yet. Those drugs weren’t introduced because
they were in some way superior to quinine. In
the 1930s, Germany and the US wanted new
drugs to treat malaria, to get around Dutch
control of the world quinine supply, and
produced several synthetic variations of
quinine, including chloroquine. In 1950,
hydroxychloroquine was produced to avoid the
retinal toxicity of chloroquine. Recently,
because of reports that hydroxychloroquine
could be helpful for treating the corona virus
infection, some researchers compared the
effects in vitro of quinine and the two synthet-
ics on human cells (Grosse, et al., 2021). They
found that natural quinine, like the synthetics,
effectively blocked the infection of human
cells by the corona virus, but was safer. The
more toxic chloroquine had previously been
found to have antiviral effect against SARS
coronavirus (Vincent, et al., 2005).
Metchnikov’s developmental, multilevel,
cellular view of immunity was incompatible
with “modern medicine.” The American
Medical Association was founded in 1847 to
promote “scientific” allopathic medicine, and
to suppress the practice of homeopathy,
empirical medicine, herbalism, etc. It opposed
the use of “crude” herbal preparations, and
considered it necessary to find a pure chemical
substance to specifically treat each condition,
such as a microbial infection, a parasite, or,
later, a genetic defect. This theory of medicine
is a perfect match for the pharmaceutical
industry, and for Ehrlich’s analogy of “magic
bullet” chemotherapy to the function of
antibodies.
It was only a little more than 20 years ago
that Jamie Cunliffe’s “morphostasis” and
“damage theory” and Polly Matzinger’s
“danger theory” broke away from the
dominant antibody theory of immunity, which
was based on Macfarlane Burnet’s mechanis-
tic, neodarwinian “clonal deletion” theory.
These new theories were, in effect, extensions
of Metchnikov’s developmental approach in
which immunity is a process of generating and
maintaining the organism. When a cell is
damaged, it releases internal components
including DNA, RNA, and ATP, and these are
recognized by cells that promote repair of the
damage, under the guidance of systemic inter-
actions. Unfamiliar antigens will be eliminated
along with the damaged tissue, by a combina-
tion of many factors, from phagocytes to
antibodies.
A few people had been recognizing the
failure of the clonal deletion theory for a long
time. At an international meeting of
immunologists in 1969 at the University of
Oregon, a young teacher had demonstrated
that the deleted clones could be restored,
giving the original repertoire of antibodies, if
the immune cells were simply cultured at a
higher density than Burnet and Nossal had
used, allowing the cells to interact with each
other, forming a network that was able to
detect, and repair, the deletions.
Although his lecture was attended by only
a few people, and the main speakers acted as
though it hadn’t happened, Niels Jerne appar-
ently noticed it, because he later presented an
alternative to clonal deletion based on his idea
of an “idiotype-antiidiotype network” (Jerne,
1974). By itself, it wasn’t an adequate theory,
but it moved in the right direction. The
damage and danger theories have provided a
way to discard the various Nobel Prize
winning theories of antibodies and their
functions, and to begin seeing immunity and
resistance as holistic processes of the
organism.
The nature of protective reactions has been
obscured by thinking in terms of “the immune
system,” as something distinct from metabolic
and adaptive processes. The various
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“-phylaxes,” starting with skeptophylaxis
(lightning or quick protection), have made it
clear that the endocrine system and metabolic
systems are deeply involved in the adaptive
protections.
Although mast cells and basophils are
usually the main sources of histamine, experi-
ments have shown that under the most extreme
conditions, all of the cells studied produced
histamine. Energy deprivation activates the
formation of histamine, which activates many
“immune” functions, including increasing the
TLRs, and production of cytokines and
antibodies. Histamine should probably be
thought of as one of the signals of danger or
damage. It seems to correspond to the catabolic
phase of an infection.
Although inflammation can occur without
infection, its presence is generally thought to
indicate infection. The corona virus infections
inactivate the ACE2 enzyme, whose functions
include destroying angiotensin II, a basic
promoter of inflammation, so, more than other
kinds of infection, it is a disease of inflamma-
tion. Since inflammation activates the clotting
system, it is a disease of inflammation and
coagulation. Before the WHO declared the
pandemic, China was treating covid infections
with antiinflammatories and anticoagulants.
Outside of China, governments have ordered
doctors not to treat early cases of covid, until
their symptoms were serious enough to require
hospitalization and oxygen treatment. On
October 22, 2020, the FDA approved the use
of remdesivir in covid patients, but remdesivir
is neither antiinflammatory nor anticoagulant;
inflammation is one of its side effects.
Histamine helps to rouse the immune
functions, and promotes inflammation and
coagulation.
In a prolonged excess, it tends to calcify
soft tissues, reducing their functions. Like
serotonin, it activates carbonic anhydrase, and
is activated by estrogen and a reducing
environment. While histamine is a basic
organizing factor in immunity, its effects have
to be blocked for completion of the immune
processes. Increased oxidative metabolism
lowers histamine and inflammation systemi-
cally, for example by lowering the ratio of
estrogen to progesterone.
Although anaphylaxis is usually thought of
as something separate from the immune
response, I think it just represents a quick
entry into the high-histamine state, because of
low energy reserves and slow mobilization of
the hormones of homeostasis. In the 1960s, V.
W. Adamkiewicz showed that reducing blood
glucose with insulin greatly intensified aller-
gic reactions, while increasing blood glucose
prevented deadly anaphylaxis, but weakened
resistance to infection. Energy metabolism
governs the effectiveness of the immune
process, including the avoidance of autoim-
munity (Gaber, et al., 2017).
Metabolic energy is involved in every
aspect of the covid infection, but that has been
denied or ignored because of a traditional,
ideological understanding of immunity. Denial
of obvious facts isn’t a rare thing in the history
of science, but the recent world-wide reactions
to the corona virus epidemics, including crimi-
nalization of the traditional medical practice of
treating symptoms, are unique and completely
outside any scientific, medical, or legal
standards.
Moderna had been working on RNA
vaccines for years when the “novel” corona
virus was identified, and they had been testing
it as a vaccine for corona virus in mice, so
when they received the genetic code by
telephone from China, it took them only a few
hours to produce the vaccine. As they rushed
through the preliminary trials, it supposedly
didn’t occur to anyone that the vaccine might
spread throughout the body, or that it would
infect the lining of blood vessels with the
spike protein, or that the infected endothelial
cells would cause systemic clotting and
inflammation, or that if the spike protein
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reached the lungs it would severely damage
them, or that anti-spike antibodies would be
toxic to the lungs, or that anti-antispike
antibodies would contain an antigen similar to
the spike antigen. They, like Pfizer, were
undoubtedly aware of the risks of the shedding
phenomenon. These facts would imply either
that no one in the vaccine business had studied
physiology or immunology with any attention,
or that their plan—to inoculate everyone in the
world with a highly toxic genetic
material—wasn’t intended to improve public
health.
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