Well I know one guy who isn’t long for his job: Jordon Walker, Pfizer Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations – mRNA.

He made the mistake of having a few beers with a Project Veritas journalist and bragging about what he is doing at Pfizer, and chatting about Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine strategies. None of what we see is flattering, and much of it is very disturbing. It will surely fuel both outrage directed at Pfizer, and dark suspicions regarding their vaccine strategy.

It’s because of the latter that I want to be careful parsing his words. At lot of what he says is ambiguous; at times he speaks as if Pfizer scientists are considering doing something, and at times he says that they already are doing something.

That something is “directed evolution” of the COVID virus, which is effectively the same thing as gain of function research. He called it the former and said it was to develop vaccines for new strains before they appear in the wild. That, of course, is the rationale for doing gain of function. It really is a distinction without a difference.

“From what I’ve heard is they [@Pfizer scientists] are optimizing it [COVID mutation process], but they’re going slow because everyone is very cautious… obviously don’t want to advertise that you are figuring out future mutations.” #DirectedEvolution pic.twitter.com/xaRvlD5qTo

— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) January 26, 2023

So who is Jordon Walker? And what does he do at Pfizer?

Well he’s not a janitor, that’s for sure. He’s an M.D. with a very fancy title at the company: Pfizer Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations – mRNA. From what I can gather “Director” doesn’t mean “boss” at Pfizer, but it does mean “important enough.” There are Directors and Senior Directors, so in military rank terms I would guess it means something like Major or Lt. Col. Neither a nobody nor a top dog.

Given his demeanor I am pretty sure he was never going to be CEO, even before getting splashed all over the internet as a villainous figure. While I am not sure I would be as dismissive as Robert Malone was in the Veritas video–we are seeing him looking his worst–he is hardly reserved and careful with his words.

So what did we learn exactly from the video? I advise you to watch it carefully. Clearly Pfizer is doing some scary stuff, and contemplating scarier stuff, but nothing that we didn’t already know and suspect was happening in the viral research world. It’s clear that virologists are anxious to do gain-of-function research and constantly looking for ways to do it while skirting the laws and ethical restrictions on the practice.

And, as Walker himself acknowledges, it is risky and quite possibly (I think almost certainly) led to the development of the original COVID virus that has been ravaging the world.

Clearly he knows what he is talking about on this matter, given his position in R&D for mRNA vaccines. Pfizer scientists want to do “directed evolution” to develop strains of the virus, with the goal of developing vaccines prior to those viruses circulating in the wild.

The Project Veritas reporter clearly pressed Walker on the obvious: wouldn’t this be a great business model? Develop the virus, develop the vaccine, and by implication release the virus to sell the vaccine.

Walker did not say that. The Veritas reporter implied it. Given how explosive it would be to reveal a Pharma company intentionally infected people to rake in the dough, many people will read that into the conversation. It did not happen. Walker did say that developing vaccines prior to the virus appearing in the wild is a good business strategy, and it is. But he never made the leap to creating a pandemic in order to make money.

People are going to make that accusation–that Walker and Pfizer are monsters–and the evidence doesn’t lead you there, at least not from what we have seen so far.

What is revealed conclusively is bad enough.

His description of the revolving door between government and industry is spot on. Putting on my old political science professor hat, we call that the “Iron Triangle” of the policy making process:

Everybody involved has an interest in pleasing others in the triangle. The incentives are stacked against the public interest.

They call it the “Iron Triangle” because it’s almost impossible to break the links. As long as these groups have to work together the incentives will be very high to work together amicably. Reforms have never made a dent.

So what to make of the video? It sure looks awful. The cavalier tone of Walker makes it look worse.

But to really understand what exactly is going on we will need to see more. What, exactly, is Pfizer doing behind closed doors? Are they currently doing gain-of-function/directed evolution research? I think probably so, but the video is ambiguous.

As for the worst implications–that Pfizer has a business model predicated on infecting people with viruses in order to sell vaccines? The evidence isn’t there, and it would take not a single monstrous person to execute such a strategy, but a whole company of such people. That strikes me as unlikely.