The Long Read: There is already enough evidence to design a health policy that works

On the 25th January 2026, two men stepped off an arriving plane at Detroit Metropolitan Airport en route from the Congo carrying a black case.

At the border they declared that the case contained instruments, but customs officials found it contained vials of Monkeypox virus and human DNA in violation of federal law. Both men worked at the National Institute of Health (NIH) Rocky Mountain Laboratory where one of them was Chief of the Virus Ecology Section in charge of research on “emerging viral pathogens”. Given their seniority, they should have been well aware of the risks, but both men appeared to have difficulty understanding that there are very common circumstances where airplane luggage is damaged, potentially exposing passengers and ultimately the public to deadly pathogens. They even protested that what they were doing was routine. Which goes to show just how much dangerous behaviour in the biotech research community has become normalised. On June 2nd the two men were indicted on serious criminal charges.

The incident in Detroit is not an isolated event, a pathological culture of extreme risk has taken hold of the entire biotechnology industry with an entrenched assumption that biotech research and many products should be exempt from regulation. In effect, anything goes. In part, this is due to the sense of excitement and hype that surrounds the as-yet-unrealised (and unrealistic) expectation that biotech research will ultimately lead to miracle cures for a long list of human diseases and environmental problems. It is also due to a failure to face up to known serious risks, particularly those that showed up during the Covid pandemic. At its core, the biotech industry has an almost messianic belief in its mission to edit life as it sees fit in pursuit of its improbable dreams that are actually fraught with danger for the whole human race. This verges on the psychopathic.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

Biotechnologists are faced with a long list of unknowns and unknowables that they seem determined to ignore. The foremost of these is how our genome supports our consciousness. You couldn’t devise a bigger hole in our understanding of life than that. Editing genes before you know how they might affect our ability to think, is like sawing through the tree branch on which we sit.

The scale of the ignorance about genetic functions is mind bogglingly huge. Last week the NY Times interviewed John Glass, a synthetic biologist at the prestigious J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, Calif. for an article entitled “This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade“, Glass said: “Our own DNA contains tens of thousands of genes, as well as millions of molecular switches turning those genes on and off. Scientists barely have a clue as to what many of those pieces of DNA are doing.”

Yet somehow, editing the structure and function of DNA is routinely designated safe and sure to be the only future remedy for ill health

To begin to get a handle on the vast gaps in our knowledge about genetic function, in the 1990s, a team led by the late biologist Craig Venter began studying the simplest microbe they could find. It had fewer than 1,000 genes. The team, now led by Dr. Glass went on to strip the microbe’s genome down to 525 essential genes. In 2016 after 26 years of research, the team reported it didn’t know what a third of those genes were doing. Dr. Glass and his colleagues have spent the subsequent decade trying to solve the puzzle (30 years in all), and they still can’t say what 56 of them do.“There are still significant tasks that every cell has to do that we don’t know,” Dr. Glass said.

Diseases arising from Covid vaccine technology are being identified even now

An article published in the journal Oncotarget is entitled “COVID vaccination and post-infection cancer signals: Evaluating patterns and potential biological mechanisms“. It studied the results of 60 papers linking cancer incidence with Covid vaccination. It identified several recurrent themes: 

1. unusually rapid progression, recurrence, or reactivation of preexisting cancer in remission or previously only slowly developing,
2. atypical or localised tissue findings, including involvement of vaccine injection sites or regional lymph nodes,
3. immune system deficiencies associated with vaccination and tumour reactivation.

In other words, there is strong evidence that ‘Covid vaccine-induced turbo cancers’ do exist. The study found that cancer occurrence and/or acceleration can develop relatively quickly in even a matter of weeks following mRNA vaccination. The authors concluded “there is a need for rigorous epidemiologic, longitudinal, clinical, histopathological, forensic, and mechanistic studies to assess whether and under what conditions COVID-19 vaccination may be linked with cancer.”

A study published in Medical Research Archives is entitled  “Temporal patterns of all-cause mortality among U.S. nursing home residents across COVID-19 vaccination strata, May 2022-June 2023“. It analysed mortality patterns in more than 15,000 US nursing homes and found:

“All cause mortality rates rose during weeks with more COVID 19 positive residents. Relative to unvaccinated residents, mortality elevations persisted for about three weeks in partially vaccinated and five weeks in fully vaccinated groups.”

In other words, Covid-vaccinated rest home residents were affected by elevated mortality rates following Covid infection for far longer than unvaccinated residents.

Elevated mortality associated with Covid vaccination is not limited to rest home residents. Steve Kirsch writing on Substack notes that Covid national vaccination programmes were followed by peaks in all cause mortality among all age groups in countries across the globe. In other words, Covid vaccination not only didn’t work, it came with unquantified risks to health and life. Unquantified because biotech scientists across the globe are reluctant to admit that they got anything wrong during the pandemic. Counterfactual findings are simply ignored if they don’t fit the ‘rosy future’ paradigm of biotech hype.

Forging ahead to make artificial life out of viral DNA

The NY Times reports that a team of synthetic biologists at the University of Minnesota have succeeded in throwing together a mixture of proteins, simple molecules that are known to operate in natural cells, and 36 genes extracted from bacteria and viruses to produce a kind of artificial cell that competes for food and reproduces itself through a lab-enforced process that mimics cell division. There are some severe limitations, the cells can’t make their own proteins known as ribosomes which read the DNA to produce proteins and they cease functioning entirely within 5 to 10 generations. Biotechnologists are so excited they plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars further developing these synthetic cells dubbed SpudCells. 

It is believed that at some time in the future these cells will be used to eat up the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The cell’s inventors have already warned that someone may use artificial cells to create a biological weapon. Step back and consider, fragments of DNA culled from pathogenic bacteria and viruses are being given a new lease of life in artificial cells. All this is happening while scientists don’t know how these synthetic cells might interact with the natural environment and what the extent of the risks might be. Perhaps they might out-compete natural cells essential to maintain ecological stability or human health. No one knows or can even begin to predict what might happen. And those involved still want the freedom to self-regulate their experimentation.

Apparently in sympathy, poorly informed legislators across the globe are rushing to deregulate biotechnology experimentation under the mistaken idea that it has already saved lives and will usher in an era of economic prosperity. The latest to go down this rabbit hole is the EU which is deregulating biotechnology using the infantile Simon Says justification—other countries are doing it, so we should too. In New Zealand, the National Party is fuming because its attempt to pass a Gene Tech Bill that mandated NZ approval if any other countries did, has been frustrated by its coalition partner NZ First who asked some inconvenient questions about safety, science and economic miracles. Segueing to avoid this roadblock, National is already in the process of amending existing legislation and regulations to open the back door to largely unfettered gene experimentation. What could possibly go wrong? Given the huge holes in our understanding of genetic functions, almost everything. 

Take the case of the Tunisian soccer team at the World Cup in Mexico, eight players tested positive for a banned synthetic bodybuilding substance clenbuterol, but this was not secretly administered to the team or deliberately ingested by the players. On investigation it was found that the substance is approved in Mexico and routinely given to animals. Thereby it accumulates in meat in the food chain, in concentrations sufficient to trigger drug tests. Clenbuterol significantly alters genetic expression by binding to β₂-adrenergic receptors. Thereby it sets intracellular cascades in motion that turn specific genes associated with metabolism on or off. You can immediately see that predicating gene regulation on what other countries do, can rapidly lead to genetic pollution in the world’s food chain. In fact, this is already happening on a grand scale and needs to stop.

 Biotechnology has become too big to fail. 

Over the last few weeks we have been publishing articles at the Hatchard Report and on our Substack channel which examine recent research and established theoretical principles which point to the central role of consciousness in biological processes. This should not seem strange to any one, awareness is the central substance of our daily existence. Observer, observed and the process of observation are linked together within the wholeness of our being. As we pointed out in our articles “How does DNA actually work?” and “The Structure of Consciousness“, this three in one structure forms a kind of intelligence which cannot be mimicked by A.I.. How our DNA supports the expression of consciousness is unknown, yet the biotechnology juggernaut continues to believe it has discovered the stand alone secret of life in the DNA code. 

More to the point, as we investigated in our article “The Sacred Cell and Conscious Genes“, the actual operation of DNA is now known to have abstract field-like properties that cannot be explained by a linear code. When Galileo saw the moons of Jupiter through his telescope, the self-appointed guardians of science embedded in the church hierarchy looked through the lens and said they saw nothing. The rich world of consciousness-based medicine that lies behind and beyond the incomplete paradigm of DNA is being ignored, despite the evidence of its high efficacy building up. A wicked leader in antiquity is recorded as saying “I know what is right but I can’t bring myself to do it, I know what is wrong but I can’t refrain from it”. There comes a point in every incomplete scientific paradigm when progress can only be made when its inadequacies are admitted. Eventually after a period of crisis this old order will be overtaken by revolutionary new ideas. We only hope that realisation dawns before biotech mistakes like those of the Covid era again engulf the world.

What are the health problems biotechnology is promising to solve and how can they actually be solved?

The leading causes of mortality world-wide come from the threat of chronic non-communicable diseases like heart disease, cancer, diabetes and respiratory illness. Other major illnesses include infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, dengue, ebola, and recurring viral outbreaks which pose massive public health threats. Mental ill health and substance abuse have surged globally. Environmental problems like food security, air quality and access to clean water are particularly associated with poverty and displacement. You are probably aware of studies that we have extensively reported which have shown that many if not most of these conditions became elevated during the Covid pandemic driven by either Covid infection, which is now almost universally recognised as emerging from a biotech lab, or by adverse reactions to Covid vaccination. Relying on biotech experimentation to save the world and cure disease is not a safe bet. 

Moreover the biotech industry has become heavily involved with global food production and processing. Ultra processed foods linked to ill health along with agri-chemicals and crops now almost universally contain genetically modified components. In contrast, diets rich in natural fresh foods are linked with improved health and increased longevity. Likewise exercise, fresh air, sunshine and clean water. These are the components of a healthy society that the biotech industry is wantonly polluting with genetically modified components.

As we have reported extensively, simple meditation is linked with holistic improvements in health outcomes. This is because consciousness plays a holistic leading role in human physiology. For example a five year study of the health insurance utilisation of 2000 people practicing transcendental meditation published in 1987 found inpatient admissions per 1000 were lower for the TM group than the norm for all of 17 major medical treatment categories, including -55.4% for benign and malignant tumours -87.3% for heart disease, -30.4% for all infectious diseases, -30.6% for all mental disorders, and -87.3% for diseases of the nervous system. Numerous other studies since have found comparable results including recent research finding biomarkers of younger biological age among meditators. 

In conclusion, there are well tested and cost-effective drivers of improved health known to science which are being ignored in favour of dangerous and expensive biotech interventions being developed by an industry whose knowledge base is limited and whose primary driver is profit before people. Billions of dollars being spent on biotech research including government funding, private investment and corporate profits would be better spent on promoting proven natural solutions. Numerous studies show there would be an instant improvement in mental and physical public health outcomes, quality of life and well being for all age groups—children, adults and the retired. Governments have been sidetracked by baseless promises, it’s time to get real.

Guy Hatchard PhD was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID a global food testing and safety company (now known as FoodChain ID). You can visit his website hatchardreport.com or subscribe to his Substack.

He is the author of ‘Your DNA Diet: Leveraging the Power of Consciousness To Heal Ourselves and Our World. An Ayurvedic Blueprint For Health and Wellness’.