Funding of Promising Research into COVID-19 Treatment Withdrawn Without Explanation
In 2020 a cell culture lab-study performed by a group of Icelandic scientists led by Dr. Einar Stefánsson, Professor of Medicine at the University of Iceland, showed that free fatty acids found in fish liver oil can quickly destroy viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. The study was conducted in collaboration with U.S. partners. Laboratory results showed fish liver oil with 1% and 2% free fatty agents destroyed 99.9% of SARS-CoV-2 within 10 minutes.
According to an article in Viðskiptablaðið in November 2020, the research, in collaboration with fish liver oil producer Lýsi hf. had been approved by the Scientific Ethics Committee and the first phase of the study was being planned with the participation of 30 infected individuals. Icelandic daily Fréttin recently contacted Professor Stefánsson for news of the project, but he said the research project had to be discontinued due to lack of funds.
According to Dr. Stefánsson, the Icelandic Centre for Research, RANNÍS, had approved a “substantial grant” to finance the study, but later the grant was withdrawn without explanation. He said there did not seem to be enough support from the scientific community for a study on the benefits of fish liver oil against viral infections, so unfortunately the project had to be cancelled.
Related to this, it might be noted that in April 2020 the Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority banned an advertisement from Lýsi hf. which claimed the consumption of fish liver oil might be beneficial against viruses such as herpes, RS and coronaviruses, preventing infection. The authority had shortly before warned consumers of advertisements for products that might strengthen the immune system, for example against SARS-CoV-2 infection, since information or claims of such product characteristics was “wrong and misleading” for consumers.
Fréttin contacted RANNÍS on June 7th for further explanation but has received no response yet.
Thorsteinn Siglaugsson is an economist who lives in Iceland. Find him on his Substack page.
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Interesting. It’s also well known that oily fish are a useful source of vitamin D supplements, which are useful for our immune system. Not well advertised, at least not by the pharmaceutical industry.
There’s no money it it. Gotta denounce it.
And we don’t want the proles thinking they can take responsibility for their own health. God forbid!
We know, for example, that exercise in the fresh is super dangerous, and ColdWaterKills™
There’s no money it it. Gotta denounce it.
And we don’t want the proles thinking they can take responsibility for their own health. God forbid!
We know, for example, that exercise in the fresh air is super dangerous, and ColdWaterKills™
In the last couple of years we have seen public health ‘experts’ united in their condemnation of simple, cheap compounds that my help to boost the immune system. Given that there is no downside to increasing consumption of these compounds, it is very hard not to see a cynical motivation.
You are nothing but a cynical, conspiracy theorist.
Conspiracy theories are basically spoiler alerts at this stage…
I hope you realise I was being sarcastic.
That is what I thought when I saw the downticks. Glad you have clarified your position.
Bret Weinstein explains the process so clearly and concisely on his recent Unherd interview.
There is no viable pathway for natural medical solutions to impose themselves over patented, pharma produced solutions, even when the former are as good or better.
Big pharma also funds the journals, so even more control of what information is released.
Got it! Good science will always trump bad science.
The new site is pretty buggy.
RFK, Jr. spends many pages developing this same point in his book, The Real Anthony Fauci. The goal of course is to make sure that new vaccines (now mandatory) are seen as the only solution to “health crises” (that are not really health crises).
Pure wickedness.
It’s interesting that the kind of diet followed by Inuit & other artic peoples included virtually no vegetables or fruit but lots of fat & fish. They seemed to do ok. Likewise, African herders such as the Masai produced the tallest people who could run all day on a diet of milk, blood & meat.
Yeah the whole “Five a Day” thing is bullshit !