While at DARPA, Renee Wegrzyn worked on genetically modified mosquitoes to combat malaria.
Here’s a snippet from an interview conducted at a DARPA Trade Show in 2019 (full interview below).
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While at DARPA, Renee Wegryzn worked on genetically modified mosquitos — aka, GMOsquitos — to combat malaria.
As you'd imagine, the Gates Foundation took a keen interest in her work. pic.twitter.com/eRIyqxewjh
— Joe Allen (@JOEBOTxyz) September 28, 2022
As noted in the above tweet, The Gates Foundation took an interest in genetically modified mosquitoes.
Bill Gates-Funded Factory Releasing Millions of Genetically-Modified Mosquitoes in 11 Countries
Could there be a more nefarious purpose for these genetically modified mosquitoes?
Some European scientists previously warned that they could potentially be utilized for biological weapons.
Via RT:
A US military program dubbed ‘Insect Allies’ could be used as a biological weapon, a group of European scientists warns. The Pentagon’s research arm claims they are intended to defend crops, but doesn’t deny ‘dual-use’ potential.
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and the University of Freiburg in Germany, as well as the University of Montpellier, France, have published a critique of the program, dubbed “Insect Allies,” in the October 5 edition of Science.
They argue that “the knowledge to be gained from this program appears very limited in its capacity to enhance US agriculture or respond to national emergencies” and therefore the program “may be widely perceived as an effort to develop biological agents for hostile purposes and their means of delivery,” which would mean a breach of the Biological Weapons Convention.
Speaking to Gizmodo on Thursday, Dr. Blake Bextine, program manager of Insect Allies, said that DARPA was “not producing biological weapons, and we reject the hypothetical scenario,” though they “accept and agree with concerns about potential dual use of technology.”
However, Bextine’s two-page response, released by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency later in the day, did not contain the forceful denial of bioweapons charges. Instead, Bextine argued the program was intended to “respond rapidly to threats to the food supply” and that it was subject to government regulation and transparency rules.
Nothing could possibly go wrong, Bextine firmly emphasized, simply because “every performer in the program is required to include at least three independent kill switches in their systems to shut down functionality of the technology.”
DARPA created Insect Allies to protect against threats to the food supply. An opinion piece in @sciencemagazine questions motives & value of the research. Here we reassert the need for Insect Allies and map the efforts we've taken to proceed responsibly. https://t.co/93K1IgLDEK pic.twitter.com/UNCfsGZOvL
— DARPA (@DARPA) October 4, 2018
DARPA's "Insect Allies" program: aims to use insects to disperse infectious genetically modified viruses engineered to edit crop DNA directly in fields (horizontal environmental genetic alteration agents, HEGAAs) https://t.co/kqByVtJDC8 ... 🤔 Discuss. pic.twitter.com/LsCsXaaWdh
— Stephen Turner (@strnr) October 4, 2018
Could this technology be used to vaccinate the masses against any virus they want?
As WeLoveTrump noted earlier, genetically modified mosquitoes vaccinated a human against malaria in a clinical trial funded by the NIH.
Here's the full interview with Renee Wegrzyn:
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