The Highwire with Del Bigtree - BIDEN’S NEW NIH HEAD COLLECTED MILLIONS FROM PFIZER

Episode Date: May 20, 2023

Biden’s new pick for Head of the NIH, Monica Bertagnolli, received more than 290 million in grants from Pfizer. This appointment comes more than a year after former director, Francis Collins, left the beleaguered agency. With deep ties to Pfizer and the cancer industry, she joins a roster of agency heads with questionable conflicts of interest, contributing to a growing distrust of our health agencies now seemingly beyond repair.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

America's health agencies are in a major crisis. Just last week, we did a complete expose on Rochelle Wollinsky, the CDC director that will be stepping down within a couple weeks now. She announced that she's resigning. And this is what one of the headlines was mentioning. It wasn't something that was planned. CDC had resigned blindsiding many health officials. So she is gone. She got out of there.

But now let's talk about the FDA. The FDA is also seen its many issues. and it has been struggling as well. And remember in 2021, in January 2021, Stephen Hahn resigned his FDA commissioner. He was kind of the FDA commissioner that sat under Trump at that time. And Biden, the Biden did not elect because the president has to basically say, I want this, I want to appoint this person and then they go through a process to get appointed. President Biden did not do that for almost one year.

So we really had a go ship of an FDA with substituted. teacher and Janet Woodcock, if you will. And these are the headlines during that time. There was really, it was really getting pointed out. People are going, look, we're in the middle of a pandemic response here. Can we get some leadership? This is in August of 2021. Biden struggles to find a permanent FDA chief as agency nears approval of COVID-19 vaccine. And then finally, they had Robert Caliph jump in there. We've reported on him before, but this is November of 2021. And remember Caliph represented a mixture, really this, in my opinion, dangerous mixture of big pharma revolving door influence and big tech revolving door influence because he worked at Google in their health department. So you have this merger of this.

And of course, what does he talk about as soon as he gets in there as we're reported? How can we really mandate censor speech a little bit more using AI? Because that would be great. So this is the headline on November of 2021. President Biden nominated a new FDA head. Finally, that's Time magazine. And it said, Biden left the position open for nearly maximum time allowable by law. He had until November 15th to appoint a new commissioner, which some experts, medical experts say,

have not helped public confidence in the agency's decision in the meanwhile. How many times have we read that? You know, it's not the whatever anti-vax or misinformation people that are causing this lack of integrity. It's the agency's own actions, by their own design that people are not trusting them. And just really quickly, before we get to the really main point of this story, what happened during that time frame when there was really no leadership within the FDA. Well, we had the EUA for Johnson and Johnson's COVID vaccine was pushed through. We had Pfizer's EUA for their vaccine extended to 12 to 15 year olds and also 5 to 11 year olds. We had the booster shots added, which saw two head officials leave.

And then the agency muddled through the data on myocarditis on Guillain-Barray syndrome, thrombocytopinia for these COVID-19 vaccines, where they could have pulled them. They could have lived. limited them in age groups that they were seeing this. And instead, they just updated the patient provider sheet and said with an asterisk, oh, by the way, it causes this a little bit while other countries were pulling them. And they lost their two heads stepped down during that booster push in 2021. Two top FDA vaccine regulators are set to depart during a crucial period. So it was a complete meltdown at that agency.

That's Mary Gruber and Philip Cruz. Those were the two heads no longer working there anymore. And so now we look to the headlines coming from the BMV. they're looking like this and really rightfully so the decline of science at the FDA has become unmanageable and it says in there it's an amazing article the corruption of the FDA scientific culture remains the primary culprit driving the deterioration of safety and effectiveness standards now let's go to the national institutes of health NIH so as we know we had dr francis collins at the head he stepped down after over a decade of tenure there this was the headline that

that CBS News. And at the time, you know, most of these health officials that reign during this pandemic response have seen their careers tarnished because everyone fell in line with mandated medicine, mandated masks, lockdowns. And Collins is no different. This was really, this headline is, in my opinion, his legacy because he shut down the scientific debate. At a time when the U.S. needed COVID-19 dialogue between scientists, Francis Collins moved to shut at the of course he's talking about when he and fouchy colluded to really create a a devastating takedown of the premise of the great barrington declaration of his authors and that has proven historically damaging to america but now we have the n i h with new leadership so biden has

appointed a new leader here's the headline biden taps cancer director monica bergenoli to lead n i h team that's from the hill and if you're looking at regular reporting here You're basically seeing the same regurgitated headlines. But we go to Substack here. The dossier reported this. Biden's new NIH director nominee who was selected by Fauci received $290 million in grant funding from Pfizer. We go into the article. It says that the Daily Signal, a project of the Heritage Foundation reported that from 2015 through 2021,

she received more than 116 grants from Pfizer, totaling $290.8 million, making up 89% of a research grants. goes on to say Anthony Fauci told the Washington Post that he personally advocated for her selection as the next NIH director. Bergenoli has also received 17.4 million in grant funding from Jansen Research and Development LLC, a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson. So let's back up for a second, Dell. We have the NIH. It's more than $40 billion in funding. It's the largest single public funder of biomedical research in the world. And we have basically a cancer expert sitting at the head of that who is heavily

heavily influenced by Pfizer, if you will. Well, running parallel to these headlines are also these headlines. We're looking for kind of the next step in the pharmaceutical industry, look no further. Pfizer pouring COVID profits into cancer battles, CEO Borla says. Pouring profits into the cancer situation they may have just created. I mean, talk about, you know, a conveyor belt right now. I mean, outrageous. It's really, it's really concerning. it's a say the least. And, you know, this is how fast it's moving. This is the times of Israel, scientists behind Pfizer vaccine, MRI shots for cancer coming in a couple years. Moderna, same thing, jumping on this bandwagon. This is investors. Moderna's revolutionary cancer vaccine sets investors

a buzz. So there's a lot. I mean, this story has a lot of offshoots on it. And like you said, one of the biggest glaring issues is this rise in cancer we've seen after, really after the rollout of the COVID vaccine. So, you know, a lot of the media says, well, it's because the hospitals were shut down and people really weren't getting their cancer screenings. But it seems to extend beyond that. So let's, I just want to say, you know, when we look at this, this literally is the definition of the swamp. What you're watching is how we create swamp creatures. You're taking regulatory agencies and scientific bodies inside of our government. You're putting a Pfizer executive, basically, you know, worked the tunes of hunt, we've hundreds of millions of

of dollars for Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson, two companies that have been in court have lost billion-dollar lawsuits for killing people, knowing their products were dangerous, and now they're going to be running the NIH. At some point, we need a candidate or a president out there that when they go in and say, I'm going to clean up the swamp, don't hire the people from the swamp, all right? That's what has to happen, or it won't matter what is going on here. And so, as we all look to the future, you know, we've got to be thinking. about this. This is what is wrong with our government. You have no freedoms when you have the people that are deciding whether or not to censor you being from the social media companies making those

decisions. We have decided whether or not a product should be forced on humanity. You don't want the people that made it being the ones making those decisions. I mean, this is outrageous. It's happening right before our eyes and nobody. Nobody should be voting for people that want to continue to hire corporations to run our government.