Dr. Ralph Baric – a researcher known for his controversial coronavirus collaborations with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and advocacy for Gain of Function research – received a six-figure grant from Pfizer and routinely failed to disclose the financial conflict of interest with the COVID-19 vaccine maker in dozens of studies, War Room can reveal.
Many of the studies published by Dr. Baric focused on COVID-19 response, natural immunity, and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines – including Pfizer’s own products.
Baric – who’s attended conferences at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and is described by the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s "bat woman” Shi Zhengli as one of her "longtime collaborators” – has also described lifting bans on gain-of-function research as "critical” and provided the Wuhan lab with humanized mice to likely conduct the controversial form of research with SARS-like coronaviruses.
The unearthed financial ties follow Dr. Baric advising conference attendees in 2018 on how to “make money” during pandemics.
During his 2018 speech "Imagining the Next Flu Pandemic – and Preventing it!” he presents a slide titled "Global Catastrophe: Opportunities Exist.” The slide outlines what type of stocks and industries surged during the Ebola outbreak, which he uses to extrapolate financial advice on how to "make money in the next pandemic.” "I wanted to give you good news. There are winners out there, right? So if you ever want to be prepared and make money in the next pandemic, if that’s what you want to do, buy stock in Hazmat suit makers and protective clothing or companies that make antiviral drugs for that particular pandemic,” he notes.
While speaking over the following slide – "Pandemics: Opportunity” – Baric posits that "pandemics really are times of opportunity.”
"There is an opportunity for people to have political gain, financial gain, and personal gain during times of social upheaval, and that will probably occur,” he adds.
Baric appears to have heeded his own advice, receiving a six-figure grant from Pfizer in June 2020, stealthily revealed on a progress report for his project, the Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Discovery Initiative. From June to July 2020, he took in $323,614 from the COVID-19 vaccine maker “to evaluate the potency of a panel of drugs against SARS-CoV2 replication in vitro and in vivo.” That equates to nearly $11,000 per day.
Confirming this conflict of interest, Dr. Baric has occasionally included his Pfizer affiliation in his research papers including “A nano-luciferase expressing human coronavirus OC43 for countermeasure development.”
Dr. Baric “is a member of the advisory board of VaxArt and Inviyd, and has collaborations with Takeda, Pfizer, Moderna, Ridgeback Biosciences, Gilead, and Eli Lily,” revealed the paper in the conflicts of interest section.
This paper, however, is an anomaly as dozens of papers published under Dr. Baric since he received cash from Pfizer contain no mention of his work with the pharmaceutical giant. Many of these papers directly address COVID-19 vaccines and their efficacy such as:
- SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine induces robust specific and cross-reactive IgG and unequal neutralizing antibodies in naive and previously infected people
- Defining the risk of SARS-CoV-2 variants on immune protection
- Optimization of non-coding regions for a non-modified mRNA COVID-19 vaccine
Not sure if you can do this, but I would appreciate conclusive statements as part of your articles. Its very objective so maybe you want it that way to be more unbiased, but I like to hear definitive statements about the topic. In this case, its wrong to make money from pandemics (as a goal) and its wrong to exploit lives for profit
He, along with Fauci, needs to be criminally charged and soon!
Fauci, Baric, Collins, Walensky, Dasek, etc. Hitler had nothing on these people! When they kill, they receive accolades and awards from the present and future murdered victims. I have to give them credit for the brilliance of their evil!
He should get the noose right next to fraud Fauci.
My thoughts? Well, another outstanding article illustrating the degenerate work of an appalling “scientist”, at least masquerading as one. Reinforces an earlier article I read describing the abhorrent state of science today. Plagiarism and the inability of other scientists to replicate the study and/or experiment points to an alarming trend, especially when I recall the infamous statement made by none other than Dr. Anthony Fauci. “Trust the science”. Perhaps, a classic example of how real science has degenerated by people like him and all for the all mighty dollar. What did I think of the article? Scary and very informative,
That equals just over 4 million dollars per year. Not bad for killing people. That means each life is worth approximately $0.50 to our governments.
I’m waiting for Harrison Ford to start yelling at Dr. Baric about his financial interest ala "The Fugitive”.
How is it that the US military spends about a $Trillion a year on its worldwide self appointed policing programs with military bases, naval ports, and airfields, etc; yet the American public, 80% of which take 1 to 15 Prescription Drugs every day of their lives, plus over the counter remedies. the drugs are often taken 2 at morning, noon, and night amounting to 6 different drugs per day per some each prescriptions. The doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, and pharma drug companies collect $4TRILLION a year for disease care of our population. We have a certified sick nation. Untold Trillions of the prescriptions are taken for a shortened life span. Many years ago, Ralph Nader said the medical profession killed 350,000 Americans per year with drugs and other treatments; and that was 20 years ago; more today. Apparently we tolerate a sick nation fueled by primarily only one choice of food at every market. That one choice of food wrapped in thousands of different colorful bags, boxes, and bottles is all the same: sugar and countless chemicals, (READ THE LABELS) many of which are carcinogenic synthetically made from petroleum for your car; converted to petrochemicals and are carcinogenic (cancer causing). Add to that the toxic suicide chemicals used on the farms: insectiCIDE, herbiCIDE, fungiCIDE, rodentCIDE, etc. The sugar alone feeds infections, inflammation, and all disease processes. And after 3 decades of that of course you are overweight, obese, and have diabetes, heart and stoke disease, and cancer…not to mention the fat, lard, and grease from all the animals people eat (heart and stroke), so when you go to the MD’s you now get more toxic chemicals in your drug prescriptions. And each new drug you take causes side effects requiring additional drugs. And you complain about the chemical abuse of fentanyl, etc., caused by the commies? We are our own worst enemy. HELP WANTED signs everywhere, but people choose welfare and food stamps and unemployment and getting stoned and living on the streets…and let them cross the border with the GREEN LIGHT. Are fentanyl deaths just street cleaning. maybe former President Duterte of the Philippines could help us out of this.