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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Also, when I learned that UAB is in the "top 1 percent" of colleges ranked by grant money received from the NIH, I gained even more insight into why Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo of UAB was named as Anthony Fauci's successor at the NIAID.

UAB and Dr. Marrazzo had been advancing Fauci's NIH agenda for years (and benefitting greatly from this alliance). So it's not surprising that Fauci would tap her as his successor.

Of course, RFK fired her (or tried to reassign her to an Indian reservation, a career move she was unwilling to make.) As I recently learned, Marrazzo has filed a "whistleblower" suit against Kennedy. She says Kennedy is trying to kill "life-saving research!"

.... Or so claims the lady who helped lead the effort to get remdesivir approved as the number one treatment for severe Covid.

BetterOffRed's avatar

This. Lady?

And Susie Wiles... Behind the scenes. It angers me that government employees, (especially elected officials and their minions appointed as heads or staff) make pharma money from policy decisions that limit real health care.

Another year renewal to your work Mr Bill. Thx.

Newoi's avatar

Real health care is all about the food you eat, regular exercise, clean water, sanitation and decent housing.

Most of these "so called" scientists seem to ignore these facts because all they care about is $$$$$

BonnieMae's avatar

What about Susie Wiles? I was under the impression she was solid! Guess I need to look into her record...sigh...

I'm aware that Jesus is the only One I can truly have complete faith in, but it's hard to be reminded at every turn how unworthy of even a modicum of trust those in power are!

BetterOffRed's avatar

In reading Sasha Latypova’s Substack, due diligence revealed some interesting details on her previous employment, how her lobbying for Big pharma and her investments (parked in blind trusts?) have made Susie and her connections Big money.

I'm all for making an honest buck, I am. My gut says mayhem is afoot. So many players!!

Apparently Trump is using NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) trademark business structure to bring healthcare to the people.

Translation:

His deals on repackaged health services (telehealth, Rx by mail, supplements: e.g. Wellness Co-like providers) is underway. The expansion of this niche market is made possible by FDA (HHS RFK,JR for shame!) approvals and policy change in the name of bringing healthcare “closer to the people” and “lowering costs” but likely (imo) shifts costs away from Big insurance to new players in an old game.

Susie is thick into the strategy.

We'll have to see what happens next, and if Pres ArtoftheDeal is truly on the side of Americans or is foregoing his salary because he's lining up the most lucrative transformation of private healthcare in the 22nd Century.

Jesus! 🙏 for use, give us truth.

Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Cutting-room-floor text:

More info about one of UAB medical experts (an excerpt from the story by Yellowhammer News):

Dr. Goepfert added that the Covid vaccine “is much, much better than the flu vaccine,” which he admitted is sometimes “30 percent or less effective” at preventing the flu.

FWIW, Influenza is also an “infectious disease” that vaccine experts and researchers have been trying to eliminate for decades, with zero success.

(As an aside, I was recently examining Alabama health vital statistics and learned that in 2018 or 2019, a grand total of 76 Alabamians died from "influenza," a mortality figure that makes one wonder why everyone in our state is told they have to get this ‘life-saving” shot.)

AJF's avatar

Everyone I know who gets the flu shot gets really ill. They justify this by saying, " well if I didn't get the shot it would've been much worse." Same with the "covid" shot(s). When I point out I haven't been ill like that in YEARS they tell me I'm just lucky. You can't fix stupid with these "highly intelligent" people cause they know it all!😄

nymusicdaily's avatar

flu shot also contains beta propalactone, commonly used to sterilize surgical equipment and highly carcinogenic

Newoi's avatar

It never ceases to amaze me the shit they put in these things termed adjuvants, and people still roll up their arms willingly....well unless you enlisted in which case you are forced to.

Lawdog's avatar

It's an article of faith, faith in their religion of modern medicine. Vaccines, Amen.

Bandit's avatar

Tell me... I have a "highly intelligent" friend that takes about 20 different prescription medications a day and every jab they can get. They're always sick. BUT, it could have been much worse.

Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

More Bonus Content (on one of the Bill Gates' grants to UAB ... Note the digital tracking component!)

"Major international health foundations and organizations are taking notice of the (UAB) School of Medicine’s increasingly robust global health programs. In fall 2015, the school received two of three $2.5 million grants awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to address pregnancy-related problems in South Africa. The grant effort was led was Rubin Pillay, M.D., Ph.D., assistant dean for global health innovation at the School of Medicine.

Digital censoring!

Pillay, who holds a joint appointment with UAB’s Collat School of Business as professor of health care innovation and entrepreneurship

Pillay thinks that the product development aspect could produce long-lasting benefits for the Birmingham economy. “While we’re developing the cervical pessary we’re also hoping to spin off other products, like, for example, a sensor-based device to monitor cervical dilation of women in labor, so women don’t need to be digitally examined every hour. A big part of the future of health care is going to involve sensor-based technology, so I think this project will provide invaluable lessons and expertise for local scientists and researchers.”


https://www.uab.edu/medicine/magazine/february-2016/advancing-care-abroad-gates-foundation-grants-propel-global-health-innovation

Kalle Pihlajasaari's avatar

I will not tell my wife (a Doula) about the race for a tech gadget to replace a mostly unnecessary invasive investigation, it would just upset her.

It is true that childbirth was corrupted by medicine when male doctors replaced female midwives during routine birth. Let the doctors manage the emergencies but keep them away from natural birth, they have almost no clue.

The late, great Dr. Michel Odent was a rare exception.

Bandit's avatar

God, Please help us! 🙏

Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Bonus Content:

From the Urban Institutes, analysis ... Federal funding amounts compared to total institution revenue during 2022-2023.

Total Federal Funding - Percentage of Revenues and Total Amount ..

MIT - 48 percent - $1.657 billion

Johns Hopkins University - 42 percent - $4.041 billion

UAB - 37 percent - $651.964 million

Duke - 31 percent - $1.011 billion

Michigan - 29 percent - $1.242 billion

You have to skip down the list a ways to get two Ivy League universities ...

Yale - 22 percent - $776.775 million

Princeton - 22 percent - $222.898

Newoi's avatar

The billions spent must have led to the US being one of the healthiest populations on the planet......oh wait....

AJF's avatar

Outrageous

Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

UAB operates a college with 23,000 undergrad and graduate students as well as a "health care" network that includes several colleges with 133 locations throughout the state, the largest being UAB hospital in Birmingham.

According to Google AI and other sources, the college proper includes 24,000 professors and staffers (more than I reported in my recent football article).

If you include the hospitals, UAB has at least 50,000 employees, making it the biggest employer in Alabama by a wide margin.

One source says UAB's healthcare facilities employ 31,000 people, 11,000 more than the state's second largest operator of hospitals.

Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

These employment numbers probably explain why Birmingham and state politicians said "Okay" when UAB leaders belatedly pushed for a new $200 million football stadium for its football program (the one with almost no "fan support.). Still, after experiencing massive blowback, the school pushed for the beautiful new football stadium, which they got.

UAB's trustees were smart, though. Annual debt service to pay for the stadium is approximately $19 million.

However, UAB only pledged to pay $4 million of that figure and only committed to pay this figure for 10 years.

The other entities paying for the stadium are on the hook for debt payments for 30 years.

Ron Gilbert's avatar

Great job Bill. Awesome.

Fred Jewett's avatar

I researched my family tree a few years ago and found that since 1850 if a child made it to 20 then they lived into their 80s. Exceptions were an aunt who died from too many packs a day, a grandfather who worked himself to death in World War 2 and an uncle who died in his 60's (I never heard about what he died from). So the majority, especial those who worked on the farm made it into old age.

DUANE HAYES's avatar

All that research money, no cures, no expended life span, no better health, but record breaking profits for big pharma, a big success. Way past time for in depth audits of all research funds.

Mtone's avatar

Explains why they wanted to keep the failed football team going, they have to launder their money somewhere somehow.

Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

They can afford to have a football team that loses boatloads of money. The remdedivir grant would pay for a season of football with no fans.

Jeanne's avatar

I find it appalling that UAB has been employees than students!

Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I know. That statistic is cited at several sources.

It would be like a high school of 1,500 students having 1,600 teachers, adminstrators and janitors.

The statistic might be confusing because UAB also operates several very large hospitals and many clinics and I'm not 100-percent sure if some of the 24,000 UAB employees might work at the hospitals?

Here's a pull quote from a story from The Birmingham Times (about the risk of UAB losing federal funding:

"The NIH cuts go beyond UAB’s research studies. The university, which employs 28,000 people and enrolls 23,000 students, provides jobs and health care.

So that source says UAB has 28,000 employees.

If I remember correctly, another story said that 1 in 6 working adults in Birmingham, Alabama work at UAB or its hospitals.

SteelJ's avatar

Fortunately since COVID a lot more people see these people as the scammers they are. Unfortunately, it's still not enough people. Most "want to believe", and so they do.

Newoi's avatar

Bill, I couldn't have put it better than what you wrote.

The corruption runs deep and it has always been about $$$$$ over health.

"Infectious disease" that is a misnoma in itself. Several studies prove there is no such thing as a contagious disease. Even I with a low IQ know that if you give people better access to clean water, sanitation, good food and shelter, health outcomes will be improved.

Yet these "so called" scientists still have to invent pills and vaxx (which have never worked/caused more illness) for something that has ceased to be a problem in large parts of the world.

The common cold unit in the UK ran from 1946 - 1989 and they couldn't find a cure. People used to volunteer to go because it was a 2 week paid holiday, and knew they wouldn't get ill.

Offitt and his Rotashield vaxx comes to mind. Dr Ruth Bishop of Melbourne hospital published a paper: Discovery of Rotavirus: Implications for child health.

She observed "In the early 1900s, 100-200 of every 1000 babies born in Victoria (Australia) died before the first year of life"

She attributed this diarrheal disease called summer diarrhea and observed "The death rate from gastroenteritis in young people had fallen by 1940 to 1.64/1000 live births as a result of many factors..."

She further observed

"....increased hygiene in the home, availability of refrigeration and home ice-boxes, proper sewerage disposal, changes in hospital attitudes to admission and advances in treatment"

putting to market

Offitt "the grifter" should/would have been aware of this data, so this makes him a money grabbing little grub.

All these scientists forget that they are mere mortals like the rest of us and not some type of god....but they all have some type of god complex like Anthony "I am the science™" Fauci.

Rockefeller has the face of a bastard, so no surprise he was a c u next tuesday.

On a side note, most wild animals seem to live healthy lives without vaxx and pills. It begs the question; why are domestic pets subject to them?

And "bird flu"...give me a break

AJF's avatar

Newoi, seems to me the IQ test must be highly overrated. Your comments are extremely "intelligent" much more so than those with high "IQs" I know! And don't forget what Noam Chompsky said about the unvaccinated!!

Jeff Schreiber's avatar

“If a prize was awarded for the most egregious, diabolical and lucrative scam of modern times, it might be named in honor of Anthony Fauci, John D. Rockefeller or Bill Gates … and the Medical Research Complex would win this trophy every year.”

I have an ongoing heated discussion with my brother in law, who’s a Harvard educated, Columbia trained retired dermatologist who never met a vaccine he didn’t instantly fall in love with.

Due to his religious fanaticism on the above mentioned subject, he speaks with a certainty that can only be explained as being pompously ignorant. He simply cannot see the forest for the trees when I mention the amount of cash that’s being passed to support this malevolent scam. In the world he’s part of - the Masters of the Universe club, there is simply no way his contemporaries would ever be grifting their way to the top of the heap! After all the real grifters are quacks like Joseph Mercola and Andrew Wakefield. And of course the greatest money grubbing phony of them all - RFK Jr.

This is the way these people think and see themselves. And all that money that keeps pouring in is well deserved because it’s keeping the world safer - NOT!!

Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Well said, Jeff. I doubt I will change any minds with this piece. I was surprised to learn the scale of the grift.

Jeff Schreiber's avatar

And if you keep digging deeper, you’re likely to find a whole lot more. With billions at stake, some people will stop at nothing to get their slimy fingers on as much as possible. They’ll lie, steal, cheat, kill - whatever it takes; and care not who they harm or destroy in the process.

Reader East of Albuquerque's avatar

Certainly you are informing those of us willing to take in new information.

Reader East of Albuquerque's avatar

Jeff Schreiber— My sympathies. I know a number of people like your brother-in-law. I pick my battles; I don't waste time and energy chipping at vast deposits of extra-hard concrete. That said, I know, sometimes it is worth it. Depends on the situation. It's never one-size-fits all.

Update—The person I most often deal with whom I have in mind in this comment is a medical professional who happens to think that Dr. Fauci is a great guy and the NYT is "must" reading. This person has taken 5 covid jabs that I know of, possibly more. I perceive that it is extremely important to this person to be seen as a highly competent, caring, and responsible professional. I don't know what other peoples' path in life is going to be, but I do get the sense with this person that I am watching someone determined to remain prostrate on the railroad tracks, no matter what.

Jeff Schreiber's avatar

Normally I just try not to touch upon any controversial discussions. Keeping it light and superficial works fine for me. It’s only when he gets on a rant about all “those stupid people” who are ignoring the “science” he believes in that I get riled. So I’m learning to keep my mouth shut not allowing him the opportunity to intellectually bully me.

Reader East of Albuquerque's avatar

What I find creepy but also a bit hilarious is how so many people start ranting about "those people" who believe the vaxxes aren't safe & effective, and they so blithely assume that I, and the rest of the so-called civilized world, would wholly agree with them. So to me they're double dupes, first for believing the vaxxes were anything you'd want to rush out and inject yourself with, and second, for believing that no one they would know would beg to differ. I don't get into with them, either, they're a lost cause, I just change the subject.

Newoi's avatar

And these people are supposedly highly intelligent....IDK

Reader East of Albuquerque's avatar

Like all people, including myself, no doubt, this one is a mix of smart and stupid, good and bad, quick and slow, etc & etc. Me, I just try to remain hard to kill, which I cannot say that I have observed is true for all other people. The one I mentioned got grievously ill after each shot, but seems to have recovered to some degree.

The lesson I'm taking from all that I have witnessed is that for most people doing whatever they need to do to cling to or better their social status trumps pretty much everything else.

Now social status does in fact have a lot to do with survival. On the other hand, if you're dead, your social status doesn't do whoop. Last I checked you can't take your wine collection with you, either.

Newoi's avatar

Only one phrase describes your BIL Jeff: A brainwashed follower of the vaxx cult, with Plotkin, Offitt and Edwards as his high priests.

Even if you showed him historical evidence, he would still deny it.

Jeff Schreiber's avatar

I’d like to see how he’d react if a report ever got published showing some of the evidence we are familiar with. He would probably search far and wide for fact checking that “debunks” it as misinformation. You can expect these new Pharma supported medical boards popping up in the blue states to provide him with all the fodder he wants. It’s like we are watching the birth of the Science Wars.

AJF's avatar

From my research "snake oil" was brought by the Chinese working on the railroads and was a legitimate aid for certain ailments. When unscrupulous people got wind of this they sold fake "snake oil" thus the term got a bad name.

Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Interesting. Thanks. I should go into this business. "Contrarian Substack freelance writer" is tough.

AJF's avatar

Incredible research Bill, will share!

Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Thank you. It all started from researching Uab football. Science is the game that pays.

Chief Justice of Nuremberg 2.0's avatar

That's unless they put a protein that resembles the snake venom in your vaccines, is stored the same way and has the same side effects. Think of the word "spike" protein, as fangs, and Fauci meaning Sickle. Besides, it's not just the snake oil, Devil Bill Rockefeller added Opium & Alcohol to the Snake Oil to make it addictive and destructive.

Jillian England's avatar

Yes I agree with the opinion that the government medical complex is a criminal enterprise, a mini kleptocracy even.

It does not know how to heal but is exceedingly good at producing streams of billable events

Newoi's avatar

Oh it knows how to heal Jillian, it just chooses to ignore it in favour of $$$$$

Jillian England's avatar

The medical industry has generated no evidence of a capacity to “heal” or care about its “human” customers. It cares about its government and corporate customers very much.

California Girl's avatar

Congratulations Bill on taking on the HUGE scam of federal dollars sent to universities like Alabama's for medical research! I take it this is taxpayer monies, for which the cotributors receive no status information or thanks.

If I recall correctly, not all of that money comes from taxpayers. Some comes from "gifts" made by pharma to NIH. Is this bribery? I understood that was how Fauci became so rich.

Keep up the good work!