John Flack, a retired Pharmaceutical Research and Development Scientist, criticises the development and approval of covid vaccines, stating that the official narrative of “safe and effective” is misleading. In fact, the rollout of the covid vaccines was reckless.
“I have spent my whole professional career trying to discover and develop new medicines, including vaccines … If nothing else, I know what good and bad medicines look like,” he says.
Now the vaccine-injured and their families are left to pick up the pieces. “The tragedy is that this was all self-inflicted through nothing less than a carefully crafted and fabricated illusion of a deadly pandemic that never was.”
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UK Covid-19 Vaccine Regulatory Response: Gamekeeper Turned Poacher?
By John Flack, as published by Health Ethics Advocacy and Research Team (“HEART”) on 16 September 2025
In 2022, I published a paper in The Daily Sceptic (at that time called The Lockdown Sceptic) concerning the safety testing of the covid-19 vaccines that had miraculously been developed and approved in a matter of months rather than years. In this paper, I was highly critical of the way these products had been developed and expressed great concern about their potential short and long-term safety. I went as far as suggesting a preclinical programme of testing for these novel products that would have been able to identify areas of potential safety concern.
Now, some three and a half years later, it seems appropriate to review my 2022 paper against the empirical outcomes from the mass vaccination programmes that were conducted worldwide. The bottom line of this review is that the official government narrative of these novel vaccines as being “safe and effective” was, at best, misleading and, at worst, a complete fabrication.
At the time of their introduction, there was no solid data that provided evidence from the clinical trials of their clinical effectiveness. Subsequent worldwide clinical experience has confirmed that these products are not preventing infection or stopping transmission. But worse still, the early trials also showed clear evidence of adverse side effects, and these have unfortunately been confirmed in the rollout to millions of people all around the globe.
The early signals of significant and serious adverse events were ignored. Political hubris and expediency trumped patient safety. The very opposite of the precautionary principle. Thousands of people have died or suffered serious disability directly because of these products.
Governments bragged about the “warp speed” development of these “vaccines” and the various regulatory agencies previously charged with ensuring that tragedies such as thalidomide never occurred again told us, and the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (“MHRA”) in particular, that they were now “enabling” pharmaceutical companies with rapid authorisations of new medicines. In effect, the regulatory gamekeeper turned poacher.
I quote directly from my 2022 paper: “But it (the warp speed development) must be recognised as being a huge gamble. Unfortunately, we will never know whether it is a gamble that has paid off.”
My statement was predicated on the fact that the pharmaceutical companies, together with the national regulatory authorities, had decided to “unblind” the clinical trials so it would not be possible to ascribe either efficacy or safety unequivocally to the vaccines. An absolute mantra in science and not least in the testing of medicines for safety and efficacy, is the danger of conflating cause and effect when this could have occurred purely by chance. However, cognisant of this perennial problem in science, a paradigm has been established, known as the Bradford Hill paradigm, that takes account of all the observational empirical data associated between two events. There is no doubting from such an analysis that serious side effects are directly caused by the administration of these novel vaccines.
No amount of grandstanding by the likes of Hugo Keith QC at the Hallett Inquiry [officially called the UK Covid-19 Inquiry] – who at the opening of the session on the vaccine’s module said, “We all know the vaccines have saved millions of lives and are safe and effective” – will hide the truth of the matter.
I quote from Professor Angus Dalgleish, Emeritus Professor of Oncology at St George’s Hospital, “It is clear to everyone who has not been anaesthetised by government dogma that the vaccines were anything but safe with millions suffering from heart conditions and strokes as well as every manifestation of autoimmune disease ever described.”
And then came the very recent announcement from the US government that all further government support for vaccine mRNA development – that’s the technology platform used for the covid-19 injections – is to be banned and the contracts that have been already issued are to be overturned. So, at last, recognition by a major government that the mRNA covid-19 vaccines are not fit for purpose in fighting viral respiratory infections. A momentous decision indeed but hardly worth a mention in the UK media.
The delusion of the miracle of British technology saving the world will one day be exposed, if not by the Hallett Inquiry, then by international and national science. We can only live in hope that in the short term, the gene technology platform in general and modified messenger RNA in particular, at least as applied to vaccines, will be quietly phased out in the UK too, and that in the long term the folly of the coercion of millions of people into vaccination will be exposed.
How did it come to this?
Perhaps because I am a born sceptic, I smelt a rat from very early on. There was talk in early 2020 of a novel, deadly virus which was so virulent it was going to kill millions of people. The pseudo-science of predictive computer modelling told us so.
We were exposed on our TV screens to pictures in China and Italy showing people falling over in the street and ambulances queuing to take body bags from hospitals. All subsequently shown to be grossly exaggerated.
And yet it was known as early February 2020 that the virus was causing harm to only the old and fragile of the population. Children were mercifully spared altogether and the middle-aged barely affected. How could this virus possibly be called highly virulent whilst having this highly selective demographic profile? It just didn’t make any sense.
Then, as 2020 progressed and the symptoms of infection became better defined, I realised that I had seen these “flu-like” symptoms in two friends in November/December 2019, way before the SARS-2 virus had even been mentioned. The doctors and laboratory investigators at that time were mystified as they couldn’t identify the causative organism, but my friends were successfully treated symptomatically with corticosteroids and antibiotics for secondary bacterial infections. The hacking, dry and painful cough, high temperatures and loss of taste and smell, which came to characterise the Covid symptoms, were very evident. But even these were not unique to this respiratory virus. Slightly different in overall profile, maybe, but hardly unique. So, the virus had clearly been around in the Autumn of 2019 and most probably earlier than that. If it was so contagious and virulent, why weren’t people dying in their thousands then? How and why did ‘flu suddenly disappear overnight? Again, it didn’t make any sense.
In addition, we were told that this was a novel and dangerous coronavirus. I am not a virologist, but I was aware that the common cold is also caused by a coronavirus. Scientists had been studying this class of viruses for decades. Yes, indeed, they are very contagious but by contrast weakly virulent. They were also known to mutate with great rapidity, indeed at such a rate that despite decades of trying, no vaccine had been developed to mitigate the prevention and transmission of the common cold virus. Now this new mutant was apparently not only highly contagious but extremely virulent. Except that it wasn’t, as the selective demographics had clearly shown. Once again, it didn’t make any sense. In fact, I was inclined to the view that this was not a highly lethal virus that came from a wet fish market in China or indeed that was made by some rogue scientist that had escaped from a laboratory but simply another coronavirus strain that had evolved in the normal course of the virus lifecycle and was novel only to the extent scientists hadn’t yet identified it.
And then there were the historical facts about all the pre-planning that had been done over a decade or more in anticipation of a respiratory virus epidemic. All this analysis pointed to doing what had previously been done and in accordance with conventional wisdom and practical experience. This being to simply protect the vulnerable and isolate those showing symptoms of infection. That was indeed the plan proposed to deal with future respiratory epidemics. Scientists and healthcare experts were all agreed. That is: until mid-March 2020, when Boris Johnson told us we all had to stay at home. So began the farce of the unprecedented lockdown strategy until the miracle of a vaccine became available.
Scientists, academia and the medical and scientific institutions fell silent. Empirically based science of speaking the truth was suspended. Science instead became politicised. Boris Johnson, whom I had respected as a true libertarian and a student of history and literacy, turned out to be the clownish fool his detractors had labelled him. He coined the meme “We will follow THE science” when there is no such thing as “THE science.” Boris ushered in, perhaps unwittingly, the age of scientific dictatorship which Dwight Eisenhower had foreshadowed and warned the world about in 1961. Before our very eyes, Technocracy was displacing Democracy.
Overnight, it seemed governments worldwide were told to forget any previously well-considered and thought-through pandemic planning and instead put in place a previously untried plan – an experiment in effect of population control. Simultaneous decisions made by governments all over the world were surely not a coincidence but rather orchestrated on high. But who was the conductor?
In effect, it seemed that the situation had been taken out of the hands of experienced scientists and public health authorities and put into the hands of a more military style operation. How else to explain all the “U-turns” from previous policy? Whoever it was pulling the levers, they enlisted the support of a compliant World Health Organisation which had in turn been captured by the communist Chinese government. They were originators of the previously unused “lockdown strategy.” Why on earth would democracies follow Communist doctrine? But all Western governments bar one followed them. Perhaps it’s best, rather than to conjecture and invoke criticisms of conspiracy, to suggest simply that “blind panic” was the reasoning. The State mantra, previously used only in a situation of war with other nations, of “the first duty of any government is protecting its people from harm” was now being invoked as the excuse for “fighting a deadly novel virus.” Indeed, we were told that we were fighting a war with a virus. And so began three years of fascist rule in which all freedoms were withdrawn and impositions applied upon populations under the guise of “emergency powers.”
We will all have our personal experiences of these extraordinary times. Experiences, if my own are anything to go by, we can barely believe happened, let alone complied with. What a surprise when there suddenly appeared a whole industry that had just been lying dormant for a decade or more, waiting for the opportunity to exploit the situation. The sharks moved in. Government propaganda and the control of the corporate media went into top gear – the population had to be terrified into compliance. And it was. This was an experiment of mass psychosis, and the experiment was seen to be a complete success. Censorship of any dissent was legitimised. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Limited space precludes discussion of the plethora of impositions applied, all without any evidence ever being presented of their effectiveness. So, let’s just gloss over the mandatory mask fiasco, the test and trace debacle, the abandonment of decades of basic immunology knowledge particularly innate immunity, the social distancing nonsense, the scientific fallacy of asymptomatic transmission, the exaggeration of mortality caused by the virus by wilful distortion of data, the disgraceful abandonment of medical bioethics as witnessed in the lack of obtaining informed consent, mandatory vaccination and vaccine passport policies and all the rest designed to frighten the population into compliance.
Yet the reality was: we were not dealing with a deadly novel virus that was going to kill millions of people. Instead, a fabricated illusion of a pandemic had to be created and perpetuated. How the politicians loved it.
Except that not every country fell for the new plan. Sweden saw through it and, by way of its constitution, the scientists there were able to resist the political pressures and continue down the conventional path of epidemic planning. They did not “lock down.” But nor did they get everything right – they didn’t protect care homes as they should have – but, nevertheless, the evidence is now clear. The Swedish outcomes in terms of human mortality and morbidity, not to mention matters of education and the economy, are far better than any country that chose to lockdown. If we now need to be assured that lockdowns were a disaster for our society, then the Swedes are the control arm of the experiment showing definitively that the lockdown experiment failed. Let it never be repeated.
Of course, part of the government propaganda encouraging us all to behave like compliant sheep during this lockdown period was to tell us we will be saved by the brilliance of our innovative scientists, who were busy working on a vaccine. Just wait, be patient, all will be well. So went the patronising political hubris. And so it was in December of 2020 that the first person was vaccinated and from about February 2021 the big national vaccine rollout began. I volunteered and helped at our local temporarily set up vaccine centre with the logistics of making it happen. All very impressive.
To be very clear, I am not an “antivaxxer”. I had, sad to say in retrospect, two Pfizer injections. But no boosters! Initially, we were told that the vaccines were only for the very vulnerable – namely, the over-70s and immunocompromised. But then the whole population – including children – was coerced into the rollout programme. This didn’t tally with what we knew about the demographics of the disease and, in protest, I immediately resigned my position at the vaccination centre. Once again, it didn’t make any scientific or clinical sense. I have spent my whole professional career trying to discover and develop new medicines, including vaccines (for the rotavirus) that have an appropriate benefit-to-risk ratio in the disease being targeted. If nothing else, I know what good and bad medicines look like.
I was very interested in learning much more about these new vaccines, especially since heretofore scientists had been unable to develop effective vaccines against coronaviruses. Although there have been a few very unfortunate examples of vaccines causing serious harm and being withdrawn, in general, vaccines directed at respiratory viruses, such as flu, are considered very safe if not as effective as we might like. Bearing in mind that I knew it takes up to a decade to discover and develop new medicines, I had thought that these new vaccines had been developed on traditional vaccine platform technologies and require minimal safety testing. Just like annual flu jabs, which get modified year on year depending on the strains circulating that year and can be rapidly developed and manufactured using well-tried and safe conventional technologies. Isn’t this what most of us thought? Were we told otherwise? Safe and effective was all that we were told and why, bearing in mind our general positive experience with influenza vaccines, would we think otherwise?
But NO, we had been misled again. I discovered that these are not vaccines based on traditional methods of development and manufacture but rather a completely novel and unproven technology in respect of vaccine products. The technology called messenger RNA (“mRNA”) had been around for a while and attempts to use it in curing diseases of genetic origin had sadly failed.
But it got worse. These products that had been called vaccines were NOT vaccines as defined by historical conventional medicine terminology. But nevertheless, they had been developed under the guidelines of standard procedures of traditional vaccines. Sleight of hand, in other words. To overcome this sleight of hand, the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) and regulatory authorities were complicit in quietly changing the definition of a vaccine to cover for this completely novel class. So, the official narrative went, “Nothing to see here. We have complied with standard procedures for the safety testing of vaccines.”
The bottom line is that these are completely novel products and should have been subject to the same rigorous testing methodologies as any other completely novel pharmaceutical product. I was shocked. Neither short-term nor long-term safety testing had been conducted on products intended for mass administration to millions of healthy people. Hence, the title of my February 2022 paper, ‘Why weren’t these vaccines put through the proper safety trials for gene technology’.
The Government and its regulatory institution, the MHRA, together with the pharmaceutical industry, which, never forget, had been indemnified from any commercial risk by governments, took a huge gamble. It is now clear that the vaccine gamble has failed, as did the lockdown strategy, both with devastating health consequences for society today and tomorrow.
The tragedy is that this was all self-inflicted through nothing less than a carefully crafted and fabricated illusion of a deadly pandemic that never was. Is it any wonder that no one in authority now wants to talk about, least of all assume any accountability for, the disaster of the management of the Covid Event?
The fight for truth is far from over, but it seems to be slowly emerging in the USA through President Trump and Health Secretary Robert Kennedy. Be assured that some of us in the UK will seek to re-establish the trust and integrity of science and medicine, accountability for government failings and, most importantly, justice for those whose lives have been devastated by the lockdown policies and the morbidity and mortality of a novel medical technology that had not been subjected to the scrutiny of the appropriate tests for safety.
About the Author
John Flack, B Pharm, PhD, is a retired Pharmaceutical Research and Development Scientist and a member of HEART, formerly known as Health Advisory Research Team (“HART Group”).
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It was not reckless … not a bit! It was long plotted out, developed in labs, mandated and executed upon subdued, oppressed and woefully unsuspecting citizens (for the most part). The injections were willing or forced, the covid hoax fulfilled a EU/WEF/CHINA mandate to reduce world population subliminally using psy-ops and reverse psychology, and to ultimately wreak revenge on the Victors of WWII. It went as planned until the bottom fell out when people wised up. Now the “nazis” want to play dumb. Okay. Play it. We’ve got your number.
The same people whining about their suffering from the deathjabs were either part of the crowd cheering on sanctions against the nonvaxxed, or actively sanctioning, doxxing, and harassing those who preferred to remain purebloods.
I have no pity for the trendy little vaxxed fools.
Me neither. They were horrible little fascists. I had the pleasure of telling a number to eff off, and one idiot laid hands on me in Boots and ended up on the floor. Oops.
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Hi Kelley Eidem, thank you.
Never followed any of the BS. None of it had any science behind it. The stupid screens, the stickers on the floor, big shops open….with lots of people, small shops shut, with less traffic, certain items not being allowed to be sold even if they were in an open shop….what? Psyop..
the frightening part there are people I know, one being an NHS nurse still can’t see the scam , so sad really.
Not getting the killshot was the best $320,000 I ever spent, which was my lost wages after getting sacked from 2 jobs for being vaxfree
I’ve read tons of articles like this one.
Only the stupid, by now, still believe in the official (safe and effective/saved a million lives…) story.
Every single thing was planned long ago, and executed with the complicity of corrupted politicians and health institutions.
So far I don’t think a single individual/criminal paid for it and, considering how the vast majority of vaxxed people don’t want to talk about it, I don’t think they ever will. All of them are still in their places, if not promoted.
I will never forget or forgive them, but I’m extremely disappointed with the behaviour of society as a whole, It showed how evil our current leaders are and how quickly people are willing to become Nazis when manipulated to be fearful.
Just like all these virologists and
doctors to say this:- NOW. Like
closing the barn doors after the
horse has bolted. These cowards
never spoke up in the last few
years. Absolute silence.
New word for “ premeditated “
MacDonald meal lol it’s worse than we think loto ticket wow
this was all manipulated by conservatives, Jason Kenney premier of Alberta . Attended a bilderberg meeting to get directions on Alberta’s reaction to “ COVID “
Then Daniel smith was stood up in front for replacement. Some of smiths running competition were young global leaders . Point is , she is manipulated. your living the proof ..
Re “Why on earth would democracies follow Communist doctrine?”
What “democracies” Dr. Flack??
Any alleged expert or layperson who talks about “democracies” AS IF a real democracy ACTUALLY EXISTS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD (or has existed at any time in ‘human civilization’) is evidently either a fool who’s repeating mindlessly and blindly the propaganda fed to them since they were a kid and/or is a member of the corrupt establishment minions whose job is to disseminate this total lie because any “democracy” of ‘human civilization’ has always been a covert structure of the rule of a few over the many operating behind the pretense name and facade of a “democracy”: https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html
“There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. […]. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies […]. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable laws of business. The world is a business […].” — from the 1976 movie “Network”
“We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” — Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice
Does anyone still not see how the deadly game on the foolish public is played … or still does not WANT to see it?
“We’ll know our Disinformation Program is complete when everything the American public [and global public] believes is false.” —William Casey, a former CIA director=a leading psychopathic criminal of the genocidal US regime
“Elites are afraid of equality, they are afraid of real democracy, and they are afraid of justice.” —Scott Noble, filmmaker
If you have been injected with Covid jabs/bioweapons and are concerned, then verify what batch number you were injected with at https://howbadismybatch.com
“First, use cash wherever possible to slow the transition to CBDCs. Avoid reliance on digital-only payments. Second, grow or source local food to reduce dependence on centralised supply chains—support small farmers and community markets instead of corporations. Third, protect privacy: limit data shared online, avoid unnecessary smart devices, and use privacy tools to resist surveillance. Fourth, say no to digital IDs—do not adopt them voluntarily, even if marketed as ‘convenient’. Fifth, build strong communities. Isolation fuels control, but networks of like-minded people create resilience. Share skills, trade directly, and support one another outside globalist systems. Sixth, CHALLENGE PROPAGANDA BY SPREADING AWARENESS, questioning narratives, and encouraging independent thinking. A CONTROLLED POPULATION BEGINS IN THE MIND; breaking that spell disrupts compliance. Finally, PRACTICE NON-COMPLIANCE WITH UNJUST RULES. Each time a person says ‘no’ to unjust rules, they reclaim sovereignty. Courage builds gradually through practice, not all at once. TYRANNY DEPENDS ON OBEDIENCE. If enough people refuse to comply peacefully—whether with digital tracking, restrictions, or censorship—the system cannot function. The core principle: WITHDRAW PARTICIPATION FORM SYSTEMS DESIGNED TO ENSLAVE, and REDIRECT ENERGY TOWARDS LOCAL, HUMAN-CENTERED ALTERNATIVES. Freedom survives only if people ACTIVELY LIVE IT.” — https://archive.ph/Wdzsg
“Real democracy”-what is this but reliance upon man’s ever changing whims?
Think!
I can trust 100% in GOD’S THEOCRACY–never democracy.
Re “The rollout of the covid vaccines”
Vaccines??
This is a whitewash account because these jabs were/are not vaccines but bioweapons … https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html
“The term ‘mRNA vaccine’ is a cover for nanotechnologies that are being used as gene-editing technologies and agents of biowarfare on US and global citizens. The cationic liposome nanotechnologies are being used to introduce non-human DNA into the cells of adults and children to turn their cells into disease-causing, toxic spike-protein bioweapon factories.” — Karen Kingston, former Big Pharma employee, in 2023 (https://archive.md/GTmQ1)
“Despite the extensive documentation, most mainstream doctors and media dangerously continue to ignore my findings and refuse to speak about the self assembly nanotechnology that is in every human being now. The blood contamination is greatly accelerating in the amount of nanotechnology seen due to C19 bioweapon shedding, geoengineering and food contamination, to name a few sources.” —Ana Maria Mihalcea, M.D., Ph.D., Oct 2023 (https://archive.ph/GbMtm)
If you have been injected with Covid jabs/bioweapons and are concerned, then verify what batch number you were injected with at https://howbadismybatch.com
“There are large numbers of scientists, doctors, and presstitutes who will sell out truth for money, such as those who describe people dropping dead on a daily basis as “rare” when it it happening all over the vaccinated world.” — Paul Craig Roberts, Ph.D., American economist & former US regime official, in 2024
“Every time people accept a new restriction—mask mandates, digital IDs, cashless payments, ‘green’ regulations—they reinforce the system and normalize control. Authorities rely on social pressure and fear of consequences to drive compliance. Most individuals don’t want conflict, so they follow rules even when they disagree. THIS SILENT MAJORITY ENABLES A SMALL ELITE TO CONTROL BILLIONS. Without MASS OBEDIENCE, digital IDs, CBDCs, and surveillance grids cannot be enforced at scale. The system thrives not just on active co-operation, but on passive acceptance—shrugging off restrictions as inevitable or ‘for the greater good’. NON-COMPLIANCE—whether through using cash, rejecting digital IDs, or resisting propaganda—denies elites the participation they need to legitimize their agendas. Ultimately, compliance is the lifeblood of control; RESISTANCE, EVEN IN SMALL ACTS, IS THE ANTIDOTE.” — AI Chat bot in 2025 (https://archive.ph/Wdzsg)
“This is why they have to make yard signs that say “Science is Real”. Because this new science ISN’T. It is a total in-your-stupid-face conjob. When something is real and people know that, you don’t have to make yard signs promoting it. You don’t need yard signs saying “trees are real”, “the sky is blue”. You only need yard signs promoting things that AREN’T real. Like new science and, say, political candidates.” — Miles Mathis, American author
the same at the grocery store , this is real meat , this is real butter , this is real O J , on and on ,this is real this is real . Digital is REAL people