Already six years ago, I was shouting from the rooftops that conventional vaccinology suffers from serious limitations and that there’s an urgent need for disruptive innovation (see attached PDF). Back then, I was the only vaccinologist on this planet who dared to say — at an international vaccine congress, no less — that the growing anti-vax movement is not something we should dismiss or spit at, but rather see as a wake-up call. Of course, things haven't improved — quite the opposite. What has been disruptive is the breathtaking stupidity of technocrats who, with little to no understanding of biological systems, doubled down on vaccine empiricism. Their bright idea? Large-scale field experiments with experimental genetic ‘vaccines’ on human beings, right in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic! The consequences? Predictably disastrous. Not only did these vaccines fail to control the pandemic effectively, but they also caused significant side effects — not just from the experimental mRNA technology itself, but also from the widespread immune dysregulation triggered by the mass vaccination program. So yes, it's no surprise that the anti-vax movement feels vindicated. At this rate, the word ‘vaccine’ might soon be quietly removed from the medical vademecum altogether. They’ve achieved the impossible: making vaccination look like a failed 20th-century relic.
Geert Vanden Bossche received his DVM from the University of Ghent, Belgium, and his PhD degree in Virology from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. He held adjunct faculty appointments at universities in Belgium and Germany. After his career in Academia, Geert joined several vaccine companies (GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals) to serve various roles in vaccine R&D as well as in late vaccine development.
Geert then moved on to join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Discovery team in Seattle (USA) as Senior Program Officer; he then worked with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) in Geneva as Senior Ebola Program Manager. At GAVI he tracked efforts to develop an Ebola vaccine. He also represented GAVI in fora with other partners, including WHO, to review progress on the fight against Ebola and to build plans for global pandemic preparedness.
Back in 2015, Geert scrutinized and questioned the safety of the Ebola vaccine that was used in ring vaccination trials conducted by WHO in Guinea. His critical scientific analysis and report on the data published by WHO in the Lancet in 2015 was sent to all international health and regulatory authorities involved in the Ebola vaccination program. After working for GAVI, Geert joined the German Center for Infection Research in Cologne as Head of the Vaccine Development Office. He is at present primarily serving as a Biotech / Vaccine consultant while also conducting his own research on Natural Killer cell-based vaccines.
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