Global Pandemics Seen Anew

striking correlations with electromagnetic pollution

In the summer of 2020 and again in the summer of 2021, New View magazine published early investigations by Michael Warden into what was at the time a hot and controversial topic. Namely that radiations emanating from ‘5G’ technologies might be exacerbating the waves of illness and death that were at that time occurring. On reading those preliminary investigations, Dr Jan Martel, a researcher in immunology at the Center for Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Chang Gung University in Taiwan, got in touch to propose collaboration on deeper research. This article is the fruit of the five-year collaboration that followed.

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Concerns about electrical fields and radio frequencies disrupting the integrity of biological organisms have been around for a long time, and are in general quite well researched. Research on the theme has in fact been far more continuous, far more thorough, and far more convincing than the nebulous ‘scientific studies demonstrating that 5G frequencies are perfectly safe’, periodically referred to by governments and media organisations, generally without ever indicating where such studies might be found, or who conducted them. This assertion will be substantiated as we proceed.

Naturally, it should be clear that harmful EMFs (that is, electromagnetic fields - of which radio frequencies are a sub-category) are not the only candidate for the excess deaths which began around the world in 2020-2021 – and which in fact still persist in 2026. Others include variations on the normal seasonal patterns of inflammatory disease; misguided treatment protocols, such as aggressive use of ventilators and ill-advised use of drugs such as Midazolam and Remdesivir; collateral damage from lockdowns; a novel virus called ‘SARS-Cov2’ and untested or inadequately tested mRNA and adenovirus injections. Some brief references on research into those themes will be given later, but in general the focus of this article is confined to making a serious examination of the possibility that 5G radio frequencies have been a significant contributor to all the unnecessary deaths.

Spring 2020: First Intimations of a Problem

Potential harms from 5G radio frequencies were already subject to growing attention for some years prior to 2020, with a number of scientists¹ expressing concerns and widespread public protest, generally with a focus on demanding a moratorium until risks were better evaluated. Such expressions of concern, both scientific and public, were supressed in the media, and better evaluation did not occur.

When the ‘covid crisis’ was announced in the spring of 2020, it was immediately striking that the same small number of places around the world which had by then reached high levels of 5G saturation were exactly the places that were reporting the first major waves of sickness and excess death. In particular: central and western China, east coast and west coast USA (especially New York), Spain (especially Madrid), UK, Northern Italy and the cruise ships Diamond Princess and Ruby Princess - both of which were floating showcases of satellite-based 5G technology.

Looking deeper into that pattern, an early investigation in April of 2020 suggested that in the so-called ‘first wave’ there had been, around the world, 25 times more reported covid deaths in those places with significant 5G installations than those without.² A follow-up report in the autumn of 2021³ identified a pattern in which countries that initially had not experienced major waves of excess deaths began to do so exactly at the time they rolled out 5G installations, and all with different timing: South Africa saw its first major spikes of death in June / July of 2020, and Israel in September 2020, both significantly later than those hit in ‘the first wave’, and both in sync with their initial rollouts of 5G technology. Portugal, which until October / November of that year had a notable absence of the excess death levels that had been plaguing 5G-saturated Spain, just across the border, saw deaths shoot up at that time, again in sync with their first 5G implementations. In January of 2021 India’s spike of deaths made global headlines, just as four companies began testing their 5G networks there. In the same month, Lithuania and Bulgaria, both of which had recorded no significant levels of covid deaths at all previously, joined the ranks of countries with soaring excess death rates; Lithuania had just rolled out 5G to four cities, and Bulgaria to twenty seven. Vietnam had reported no significant covid deaths right through to June / July of 2021. Then the line on their mortality graph leapt up as they rolled out their first 5G services.

Natural and Manmade EMFs

All living organisms, and all of nature, are permeated with EMFs. Electricity jumps across synapses in the brain and subtle electric currents move in the nervous system. The Earth itself is permeated with natural EMFs. The sun generates colossal electromagnetic forces, which fluctuate in particular with ‘sunspot’ activity,⁴ and so powerfully that they also shift the magnetic fields moving in the Earth. Life cannot exist without EMFs.

There is a difference however, between the very specific kinds of naturally occurring EMFs which support life, and the manmade ones which can disrupt those. In the early 20^th century Rudolf Steiner described⁵ human-generated electricity as a force that is foreign to the light, sounds and energies found in nature and warned of its potential to harm the nerves and health of human beings. He also emphasised⁶ the difference between direct current (DC) electricity, the form generally found in nature, and alternating current (AC) electricity, which is everywhere prevalent in the industrial world. In the 1980s, Robert O. Becker published pioneering work on his discovery of subtle electrical forces at work in the human nervous system and their role in healing and biological regeneration, as well as the dangers that disrupting those subtle currents with inadequately understood or researched technological deployments may lead to serious ailments of mind and body.⁷ In coming to this understanding, Becker was effectively modernising what had been said by Steiner, as well as the Chinese acupuncturists and others, decades and centuries before.

There have been decades of specific and concrete research into the disruptive effects of certain technological EMFs. A large number of studies indicate that EMFs and radio frequencies can produce a wide range of detrimental effects, including tinnitus, dizziness, anxiety and arrhythmia.⁸ As shown by Samuel Milham,⁹ these influences are not limited to short-term effects but also involve the major diseases of civilisation (i.e., type 2 diabetes, heart attacks and cancer) which increase in the population when a new source of manmade EMFs is introduced on a large scale in the environment.

A particular high point in this continuum of research came with the publication of Arthur Firstenberg’s ‘The Invisible Rainbow’ in 2017.¹⁰ The title of Firstenberg’s work was a reference to the spectrum of invisible radio frequencies we live amongst and the close correlation of its development with patterns of disease ever since the beginning of the twentieth century.

EMFs do not always induce detrimental effects on our health. For instance, the geomagnetic field and Schumann resonances usually produce beneficial effects, whereas their spontaneous and seasonal variations or other destabilisations are associated with detrimental effects that affect a relatively small fraction of the population¹¹ EMFs delivered to the body at specific frequencies are also being studied to reduce cancer growth, with positive results in clinical trials¹² These examples illustrate that EMFs can produce both beneficial and detrimental effects on health, depending on EMF frequency and host characteristics.

The History of Global Pandemics

Following the principle that natural EMFs support life, however, it should be no surprise that disrupting them can sometimes negatively influence human health. And indeed, in recent years new science has been emerging to show that all through history pandemics and epidemics have coincided closely and consistently with both natural and technological disruptions to the natural fields. With regard to spontaneous disturbances within the natural fields, for example, a 2021 study by a group of Iranian scientists¹³ showed that a great many historical epidemics and pandemics occurred during periods of sunspot maxima and minima. (Highs and lows of sunspot activity, corresponding to highs and lows of solar radiation). This is consistent with Steiner’s earlier suggestion that pandemics are due to a relationship between cosmic phenomena and physiological and psychological disturbances in the population.¹⁴ In a similar manner, small increases of cardiovascular, cancer and mental diseases also occur during periods of sunspot extrema or during solar storms.¹⁵

With regard to technologically driven disturbances, the primary cause of recent epidemics and pandemics, Firstenberg proposed, has been sudden, large-scale increases of electromagnetic pollution caused by developments in telegraphy, electricity, radio, radar and satellite communications technologies. He noted that the arrival of the telegraph at the end of the 18^th century was linked with neurasthenia, a condition consisting of skin rash, headaches, discomfort and anxiety that was highly prevalent in telegraph operators. In the late 19th century, the widespread introduction of electrical power lines and home electrification coincided with what was identified as the ‘Russian flu’, credited with taking around a million lives. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 he noted to have coincided with the widespread introduction of radio, with military radio installations being prominent among the first outbreaks. The ‘Asian flu’ of 1957 (1–2 million lives), he noted to coincide with the introduction of pulsed radars for meteorology, astronomy, air traffic control and military purposes. The ‘Hong Kong flu’ of 1968 (like all of the above actually a global pandemic despite the somewhat localised names) was credited with taking between 1 and 4 million lives and coincided with the first wave of radio-frequency satellites to go into Earth orbit.

While his work predated covid and 5G mobile networks, Firstenberg did note significant increases of disease and mortality coinciding with the activation of 2G mobile networks in 1996–1997 (the first generation having been analogue, not digital, and available only in small numbers). In city after city, activation of 2G phone networks and peaks in weekly rates of excess death coincided with exactitude: New York in the second week of November 1996, Portland in the third week of December 1996, Los Angeles in the first week of July 1997, and a good many others.¹⁶

At the same time, taken across the United States as a whole, diabetes cases exploded to more than twice their previous level immediately after these rollouts:

Now let us consider what happens in winter. In fact, deaths from not just flu and respiratory diseases, but from many other ailments, including heart disease, cancers, diabetes and renal and neurodegenerative diseases, are known to increase in winter. And we should be clear that this is not just because of the cold weather. For instance, countries with very cold winters, such as Sweden, have lower incidence of flu for some years than countries with warmer winters, such as Australia.¹⁷ In fact a similar pattern was seen during the covid years, when Sweden reported much less excess death than various European countries with milder winters. (And incidentally in this case despite being the only country not to implement harsh ‘lockdowns’). Nonetheless, mortality, both from flu and other causes, does generally increase in winter, and Firstenberg noted that the widespread electrification of homes at the time of the ‘Russian Flu’ marked the beginning of an annual return of influenza epidemics in a way that had not been occurring before—suggesting that electromagnetic pollution and winter may act together to induce and enhance influenza outbreaks. But he also noted that electrification coincided with a notable increase in cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer and excess death in general in the cities (which electrified first), compared to rural areas.

What is most relevant here is that the various diseases thus far mentioned all originate in problems of inflammation. And markers of inflammation spontaneously increase in winter in both healthy and diseased individuals living in the northern and southern hemispheres¹⁸ - apparently for a variety of reasons including reduced sunlight, cold temperature and adverse weather conditions. It is also a known fact that the geomagnetic field of the Earth weakens on the side of the planet that is inclining away from the sun. Autumn and especially winter are today known to increase not only common colds and flus¹⁹ but also the incidence and mortality from most chronic diseases, including autoimmune, cancer, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, renal and respiratory diseases in general.²⁰

The picture that is emerging - and one that is substantiated by the work of a growing number of scientists - is that EMFs, both manmade ones and disturbances in the naturally occurring ones, trigger inflammation which in turn lies at the root of all the ailments listed above.

According to this perspective, sudden increases of electromagnetic pollution disturb physiological functions and increase inflammation in groups of adjacent individuals, giving the impression of a contagious disease. The sudden but modest increase of inflammation, sickness and excess mortality observed at the population level following a major increase of electromagnetic pollution later dissipates as the human body adapts to the new electromagnetic background conditions. After adaptation, as Firstenberg put it, “we all live a little bit longer and a little bit less” – a reference to the growing prevalence of various chronic conditions among those who might live reasonably long but in some ways compromised lives.

Other recent research²¹ suggests the possibility that sudden and large-scale increases of electromagnetic pollution may directly affect the human body, via its endogenous electromagnetic components and not indirectly by weakening defences against viral infection. The implications are so extensive that ultimately they call into question certain foundational beliefs about virology itself – beliefs that in fact have already been coming into question for some decades through the work of Nobel prize-winning scientists such as Luc Montagnier and Kary B. Mullis and the Member of the US Academy of Sciences Peter H. Duesberg, as well as a growing number of other scientists and medical doctors²² Once again however, this article is concerned only with how the specific principles established by Firstenberg et al. might have been at work during the covid years.

A Tight Correlation Between 5G Deployments and Patterns of Cumulative Deaths

The authors of the current article have spent several years hunting down data. For 5G installations this was drawn primarily from public announcements made by the companies launching the 5G services, and occasionally from government announcements and other sources. For reported covid deaths and total excess deaths, data came from ‘Our World in Data’²³ and estimates compiled as a collaboration between The Economist magazine, Johns Hopkins University and other contributors, drawing in turn on a data compilation known as the World Mortality Dataset.²⁴ We sought to include as many countries as possible in our analysis, excluding only those where the probability of data reliability was very low (e.g., China and most of sub-Saharan Africa). When all this data was eventually pieced together, the correlation of excess death patterns with the installation of terrestrial 5G installations and the launch and activation of 5G satellites was seen to be consistent and planet-wide.

In order to offer some visual representation of this while avoiding an avalanche of graphs we present here only a few of the most striking graphs for a small number of countries, taken from around the world.

In the above graphs the black line shows the number of deaths officially attributed to covid, while the red line shows the estimated level of excess death from all causes Note that the red curves are negative at certain points, indicating that the number of ‘all cause’ deaths was at those times lower than statistical expectations.

The full set of graphs from our scientific paper (which can be downloaded at https://tinyurl.com/2s99ympz) also illustrates, for instance, how in Australia, a negative level of excess death which had prevailed from the time the pandemic was declared (and which had been attributed to ‘skilful political management’) turned upward when several different operators rolled out 5G to a total of around 2000 locations in June – August of 2020. As well as how deaths took off in the Philippines when three companies rolled out in February to May of 2021, in Peru with their initial rollouts in March of 2020, and Algeria when network testing began in August 2020. The full set of graphs also shows various countries with multiple steep increases coinciding exactly with multiple rollouts – such as Slovakia where the first big spike of deaths came with the launch of a pilot network in September of 2020, and a second big spike occurred when 15 new towns and cities were given coverage in September 2021, or in Bahrain, where deaths began to rise with the first rollout in May of 2020 and spiked again with a subsequent rollout in May 2021. Comparable patterns occurred in a total of more than fifty countries around the world.

A Tight Correlation Between 5G Deployments and Patterns of Daily Death

The consistent pattern in which graphs of total cumulative deaths showed large scale increases coinciding with initial rollouts of 5G services however, was not the only indicator that 5G may have been contributing to the problems. Deeper investigation also showed that each subsequent rollout tended to coincide with immediate, though often transient, increases in daily rates of death as shown below:

This graph shows variations in daily levels of excess death for Germany. Each dotted arrow shows a new implementation of 5G (either a new provider going live, or a new city or location getting coverage, or both). As can be seen from the brown line, indicating fluctuations of daily excess mortality, almost every discrete rollout was closely followed by a spike in excess mortality, and almost every spike in excess mortality was immediately preceded by a rollout. We identified comparable patterns also in Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Puerto Rico, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, United States and Vietnam. (The full set of graphs can again be downloaded at https://tinyurl.com/2s99ympz).

These correlations between incremental rollouts and spikes of daily mortality levels brings the total number countries and territories around the world that have strong and specific correlations between patterns of excess death and patterns of 5G activation to more than seventy.²⁵

A Note on Adaptation

While it may in some sense be good news to have observed that peaks in daily mortality following each rollout were transient, suggesting fairly rapid adaptation to new environmental conditions, caution is required. Despite the apparent rapid adaptation, it may nonetheless be the case that 5G radio frequencies have contributed to a huge number of unnecessary and premature deaths, and what the longer term implications will be is still unknown. Excess deaths remain elevated in many countries (though this issue is clouded by various factors including the question of deaths associated with the use of mRNA and adenovirus-based injections given during covid. And further massive intensification of wireless and satellite technologies is already planned for the near future.

Patterns and Exceptions

In addition to the many countries where patterns of excess death coincided closely with the activation of 5G, there are also countries that had high levels of excess death with no 5G networks (such as Bosnia) and countries that had relatively low levels of excess death in the presence of 5G networks (such as South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and United Arab Emirates). Notwithstanding the many other variables that could be at work, such as demographics, lifestyle and even genetic differences between peoples of different parts of the world, as well as variations in 5G technologies and frequencies (comprehensive data for which was not available during our investigation), some rationalisation of the exceptions to patterns is necessary – and that too turns out to be possible:

Up to now, we have been considering only terrestrial 5G installations. But during the period under consideration, a great deal of 5G service was also provided via satellite. At the end of 2019, Starlink and OneWeb, the two biggest operators of 5G satellites, had between them launched around 100 5G satellites. That 100 rose to around 500 between January and April of 2020, coinciding with the beginning of the pandemic – and resonating with Firstenberg’s observation that the first wave of radio-frequency satellites, launched in the 1960s, coincided closely with the so-called Hong Kong flu pandemic which swept the world at that time.

Certain specifics within this pattern also raise the possibility that 5G satellites may have been affecting health beyond the countries in which they have been providing service, possibly via effects on the electromagnetic environment of the Earth. When Starlink services were activated in the United States at the end of October 2020, spikes of excess deaths occurred not only in the United States, but also simultaneously in Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. In the case of the United States, Brazil, Mexico and Peru, these peaks were the largest observed in the whole period of the pandemic. Moreover, levels of excess death also jumped up at the same time in countries further afield, including Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Slovenia and Slovakia. Some of those spikes also coincided with terrestrial rollouts while others did not. Elsewhere this simultaneous global jump in excess deaths was attributed to other factors like virus variants or waves of increased contagion.

The suggestion that orbiting satellites may have effects far beyond the locations to which they are beaming their 5G signals is quite a claim. Certainly, what has been said about the activation of satellite services in the United States, taken alone, could be coincidence. However, we are not yet done with the theme. Further emphasising the picture of an Earth which itself is permeated entirely with natural EMFs, closely bound to those within the human organism, Firstenberg pointed out that as the Earth spins on its axis, with a massive iron core at its centre, it generates a vast magnetic field, which interacts with charged particles from the solar winds to generate the encompassing magnetosphere. (The activity of which gives rise, for instance to the Northern and Southern Lights). The difference between the positive and negative charge of sky and Earth is generally around 300,000 volts and from the interplay between them 100 bolts of lightning strike somewhere on the Earth’s surface every second. All this Firstenberg referred to as the ‘Earth’s electrical envelope’, within which the human organism evolved and is embedded and with which it is interacting at every moment.

It is this ‘electrical envelope’ that is affected and changed when sunspot minima and maxima drive changes in the solar radiations which reach the Earth. (Phenomena that we have noted above have frequently coincided with flu-type epidemics and pandemics, as well as increases in other kinds of inflammatory disease). All this being so, it is not an unreasonable hypothesis that injecting great swathes of new radio frequencies into that envelope might have very far reaching consequences.

With all this in mind, we turn to another indication, even more striking than the North American example, that during covid years satellites may have affected health in countries beyond those in which they were providing service: In February of 2022, a dedicated Starlink 5G satellite was provided to the islands of Tonga to assist in co-ordinating the clean-up following a severe tsunami. At the time of its activation, both covid cases and excess deaths rose sharply not just in Tonga but also across numerous South Pacific islands and as far away as New Zealand. We can, in the end, offer no precise causal mechanism for this. We simply leave the fact to stand in its own light.

In the above graphs, the black line represents reported covid death, which was zero until the time that the satellite internet service was activated. The red line represents total excess deaths of all causes, which as in the earlier set of graphs can sometimes go negative – which is to say, less total deaths, for whatever reason, than expected based on pre-pandemic years. And the blue line represents total covid cases – again zero until the time the 5G satellite internet service was activated.

In the case of Tonga, we see, exactly at the time of activation, a small increment in reported covid death, and dramatic upturns in both total covid cases and total excess death. New Zealand, 1200 miles away, had similarly stayed free of covid cases, covid death and excess death in general for almost two years since the pandemic had been declared. Yet exactly at the time the Tonga satellite internet service was activated, all three metrics, covid cases, covid deaths and total excess death rose dramatically. Significantly, similar patterns also occurred, with the same timing, and involving all three metrics, on the Cook Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, situated between the two. (For some reason the timing is a little different for Niue and Fiji).

In terms of why countries without significant local 5G installations may have experienced high levels of excess death however, satellites are not the only major contender. It is by now indisputable that aggressive use of ventilator machines – which one covid intensive care doctor claims killed “tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of people”²⁶ – misuse of drugs such as Midazolam and Remdesivir and collateral effects of ‘lockdowns’, such as isolation, depression, denial of treatment for other ailments, financial hardship and resulting increases of substance abuse, all contributed to overall levels of death too. With time, evidence in support of such arguments has only grown. So much so that some, such as Canadian scientist Denis Rancourt, now argue that these combined factors were the primary cause of excess death in 2020-2021.²⁷ Whether primary or not, it seems certain that they made a very significant contribution and thus could certainly be a reason why some countries without 5G installations nonetheless had significant levels of excess deaths.

A handful of other simple realities which may account for certain specific or localised variations in patterns: South Korea, which had very high levels of 5G but did not report significant levels of covid deaths in 2020 / 2021, in fact rolled out the technology in December of 2018. It may well have had an unrecorded rise in excess deaths at that time with the population having already undergone significant adaptation by 2020. And the various Gulf states, which similarly had high 5G with low ‘pandemic deaths’, in general have an average age around 15 years lower than most western nations, as well as levels of alcohol consumption running around 5% that of high-consuming nations. Taken together, these two factors suggest a healthier, more robust and resilient populace – in the face of a pandemic that was everywhere recognised to strike predominantly at the old and the already-unwell. One other small ‘exception to the broader pattern’ is worthy of mention: Of the fifty one countries we identified where the first spikes of cumulative death coincided closely, and usually exactly, with substantial 5G rollouts, a small handful showed some time lag between the two. In Slovenia for example the initial rollout took place in July of 2020, but the first big rise of death came in October, when the winter began to set in. Similarly in Poland a series of rollouts in the summer of 2020 preceded a vertiginous rise in deaths in October. In at least some cases then, what was observed was once again consistent with Firstenberg’s observation of the intensified effect that can occur when man-made EMFs coincide with winter.

Why is it Controversial?

It does not seem that it should be controversial to suggest that radio waves and other EMFs might adversely affect biological organisms. Surely what causes the subject to be treated as controversial is not the possibility that some adverse and causal correlation may be real, but the political and commercial implications of that being so. As regards the relative weight of arguments for and against 5G being safe, we balance on one side the long history of research indicating adverse effects of technological EMFs, including a number of recent studies on 5G specifically, with a look at the telecommunications industry’s own record on investigating safety. The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, which issues safety guidelines, is a self-appointed NGO “whose origin and structure are none too clear and which is furthermore suspected of having rather close links with the industries”.²⁸ Meanwhile, not only did politicians and media presenters fail to back up with meaningful references the claims they made, at the onset of covid, that 5G is proven harmless, but by 2019 a US Senate hearing²⁹ had already revealed a clear lack of adequate safety studies. During that hearing, Senator Richard Blumenthal put questions to Brad Gillen, CEO of the Cellular Telecoms Industry Association, and another representative of that organisation, identified as Mr. Berry. Here are some extracts:

Blumenthal: “So in December 2018, I sent a letter to the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] commissioner Carr asking him to cite for me recent scientific studies demonstrating the safety of this technology, what research has been done, where has it been published and compiled. He has failed to do so”.

Blumenthal: “How much money has the industry committed to supporting additional independent research? Is that independent research ongoing, has any been completed, where can consumers look for it?” Gillen: “There are no industry-backed studies to my knowledge”. Berry: .... “I’m not aware of any”.

Trusting the Science

The covid crisis, with all the errors, miscalculations and straightforward lies that accompanied it, has changed the world. It has brought to the surface many new understandings about health, science, politics, technology and society. Along the way, trust in science (as well as in government, the media and the pharmaceutical industry) has been severely damaged. That is in fact only a continuation, albeit a greatly intensified one, of a trend that was already in progress for some years beforehand. Science, which began by seeking to displace religion, has in recent decades drifted toward taking on religious qualities itself. It has begun to turn into something which some are now calling ‘scientism’ – a new world in which the dubious and much used expression ‘The Science’ means cherry-picked institutions and conclusions, used for political and commercial ends, and not ‘an open and fair contest for the best claim to the truth’. To be fair to those scientists who still practice the real thing, the ‘priesthood’ of scientism is very mixed and includes, as well as scientists, perhaps rather larger numbers of politicians, bankers and financiers, and CEOs. Renowned UK biologist Rupert Sheldrake defines it as “the idea that science can solve all the problems of the world.... science becomes a religion, then it’s humanity’s salvation – scientists are the saviours of the world. In its extreme form it’s a kind of messianic saviour cult.”³⁰ In 2020 Professor Sucharit Bhakdi, Chair of Medical Microbiology at the University of Mainz in Germany (retired) said, in a scathing criticism of various falsities that went on in relation to covid, “let’s not kid ourselves – science is as corrupt as politics”.³¹ And the following year historian Niall Ferguson declared that “One of the odder things that the pandemic has revealed was that the people who talk most about ‘The Science’ are in fact anything but scientific. In their approach they are in thrall, in fact, I think, to some version of religion, without even being aware of it”.³² None of this is fringe opinion’. In response to a steadily growing ‘replication crisis’³³ in science, Professor John Ioannidis, one of the most cited scientists in the world formally opined in 2005 that a majority of published research findings are false.³⁴

We are left with many conflicting stories and possibilities. Among those, however, some are gradually elevating to probabilities, even if we do not yet know the relative weight of each of these ‘increasingly probable truths’. From here, following the science is going to mean being more open-minded than ever before, as the implications and repercussions of what has happened unfold, probably over decades. So great are the ramifications that we feel justified in saying that the world may be heading toward a revolution in the sciences of virology and epidemiology.

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Michael Warden is a freelance writer and researcher based in Madrid, Spain

Jan Martel is a researcher in immunology at the Center for Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Chang Gung University in Taiwan

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21. Martel J. Bioelectromagnetism, influenza and the Covid-19 pandemic: Are there any links? In: Martel J, editor Recent Advances in Bioelectromagnetism and Subtle Energies: Implications for Health and Disease. Cambridge: Academic Press; 2026 | Martel J. Bioelectromagnetism, influenza and the Covid- 19 pandemic: Are there any links | Martel J, editor Recent Advances in Bioelectromagnetism and Subtle Energies: Implications for Health and Disease. Cambridge: Academic Press; 2026 | Tsiang A, Havas M. Covid-19 attributed cases and deaths are statistically higher in states and counties with 5th generation millimeter wave wireless telecommunications in the United States. Medical Research Archives 2021 | Rubik B, Brown RR. Evidence for a connection between coronavirus disease-19 and exposure to radiofrequency radiation from wireless communications including 5G. J Clin Transl Res 2021

22. Doctors and scientist such as Samantha Bailey, Andrew Kauffman, Claus Khonlein, Stefan Lanka, Robert Willner and Thomas Cowan

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24. An open access database compiled by researchers Karlinsky and Kobak.

25. There were 52 countries in which deaths (cumulative total) first dramatically rose at the same time as the first major activations of terrestrial 5G (occurring at different times over about 18 months). There were 44 countries in which rates of daily mortality peaked in sync with repeated rollouts after initial activation. Of those 44, 37 were already counted for their correlation between initial activation and cumulative death, leaving 11 countries that were additional to those. There were 6 countries and territories in the Pacific where deaths took off exactly at the time (February 2022) that the Tonga 5G satellite was activated. Of the 28 countries where there were peaks of death in sync with the activation of 5G satellite services for the United States, there were 2 that had not already been counted under other headings. Total 71, as follows: Argentina, Australia, Austria Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Cook Islands, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Peru, Puerto Rico, Philipines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Samoa, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tajikistan, Tonga, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.

26. Respiratory therapist Dr. Mark Bishofsky, who worked in intensive care units (ICU) during covid, has long maintained that misuse of mechanical ventilators killed large numbers of people unnecessarily during covid. As recently as June 2026 he said in an interview with Jimmy Dore (We knew we were killing covid patients on respirators - Mark Bishofsky, June 2026) that such malpractice had taken “tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of lives”. Another of various doctors who made similar claims is Dr. Cameron Kyle-Siddel, who observed similar problems in his work in New York ICU’s as far back as the so-called ‘first wave’.

27. Rancourt DG. All-cause mortality during Covid-19 - No plague and a likely signature of mass homicide by government response, tinyurl.com/3ejxm27x; 2020 [accessed June 2.2022], Rancourt DG. Covid-19 vaccine-associated mortality in the Southern hemisphere. Correlation Res Public Interest 2023, Rancourt DG. False that 1-4M lives saved by Covid-19 vaccination since 2020-2024. Correlation Res Public Interest 2025.

28. A quote from Jean Huss, EU Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs (’ICNIRP, AGNIR, PHE And A 30 Year Old Political Decision Created And Then Covered Up A Global Public Health Scandal’: https://communityoperatingsystem. wordpress.com/2019/09/12/how-icnirp-agnir-phe-anda-30-year-old-political-decision-created-and-thencovered-up-a-global-public-health-scandal/)

29. See 'US Senator Blumenthal Questions 5G Health Risks at Senate Hearing'

30. See ‘Science Does Not Tolerate Dissent', an interview with Rupert Sheldrake, on Unherd TV, July 2021.

31. See 'Corona False Alarm' by Dr. Karina Reiss and Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020.

32. See ‘COVID, Lockdowns and Authoritarianism’, an interview with historian Niall Ferguson on the internet channel ´Triggernometry´, June 2021.

33. The 'replication crisis' is a currently well-recognised and ongoing problem within the scientific community wherein researchers are finding it increasingly difficult to successfully repeat the experiments of their peers. When findings cannot be reproduced, it challenges the reliability of scientific discoveries and the integrity of the scientific method.

34. See 'Why Most Published Research Findings are False', John Ioannidis, 2005. https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124