How do agency partners plan to prevent falsified data on the effects of their bacteria-infected mosquitoes if a supplemental population control method is in use?
“Nah, the reason for contaminating Maui and Kauai by spraying bacterial Bti larvicide now cannot possibly be to make a 20 year plan to bomb both islands with novel experimental wolbachia bacteria infected mosquitoes look good. That’s not scientifically possible. It looks bad, it looks really bad.
They knew this would make any project to release mosquitoes infected with a sterilizing bacteria look worse, not better. So why? And why now?
Almost certainly it’s to cover for, or prevent a catastrophe, one that so far is known only to the project, but one that’s already been set in motion by one or more of the infected mosquito bombs (aka “experiments”) dropped on Kauai & Maui over the last year from becoming known to all Hawaiians and to the world.
If I were on the funding end of this, or had signed my approval, I’d be calling for a thorough and genuine scientific AND criminal investigation. And I’d order a full stop effective immediately.
After all, the potential for catastrophe has been enormous all along. The list of possible disasters caused by importing experimental unproven bacterially infected mosquitoes among Hawaii’s endemic species and complex tropical ecosystems and agricultural systems are endless. Here's but a few:
— Could be something simple like the factory where experimental mosquitoes are made accidentally switched batches of wolbachia infected tse-tse flies destined for Africa with infected mosquitoes targeted for Hawaii. Now they need to kill tse-tse flies fast. (there’s been no transparency or accountability to establish project safeguards)
— Maybe they figured out that their ‘medical experiment’ mosquitoes will infect and sterilize unique Hawaiian butterflies, or agriculturally beneficial insects (praying mantis or bees or such). (there’s been no scientific review encompassing all potentially harmed Hawaiian species for applying adequate precautionary principles)
— If they read the actual science instead of their sales science, maybe they discovered that creatures which eat a lot of mosquitoes, such as spiders, will host and morph wolbachia bacteria inside themselves in wildly unpredictable ways. Chickens will eat the spiders, carrying the infected bacteria into whole new ecosystems.
— Even worse, spiders spin webs over water where mosquito larvae hatch to feast. Aquatic creatures will eat the spiders. Spider poop filled with mosquito bacteria will get in the water, as will the bacterially infected mosquitoes and their larvae. Mollusks and crustaceans, such as the sacred ʻ’Ōpaeʻ’ula shrimp, can host wolbachia. These crustaceans could eat infected sterilizing novel mosquitoes or their larvae in streams and ponds thus setting them on a sterilization-injection-by-lab-experiment-gone-wrong crash course.
— Perhaps the factory process that separates females from males screwed up, accidentally filling helicopters full of dangerous females let loose in the wilds of Maui and Kauai. This would seed their novel mosquito species (which carry more pathogens) into the islands and might even replace the less pathogenic mosquitoes already here.
— Maybe they discovered a novel infection or bacterial contamination in the males already released that poses a big problem.
— Perhaps the manufactured mosquitoes had one or more batches with a Malaysian mold or fungal contamination that would harm Hawaii’s crops with dangerous mycotoxins. Plants, especially in a complex tropical climate with 10,000 endemic species, can interact with lab grown wolbachia in unpredictable ways.
— What if they finally did the research and found out that their lab mosquitos will also depopulate other insects that are a food source for many birds such as moths. Starving endangered birds don’t replenish their populations so well.
— Maybe they realized Hawaii is full of biological bridges to a great many species by which the highly changeable wolbachia experiment could collapse other members of Hawaii’s ecosystem.
— Now this damage control factor seems very likely. They figured out that tiny creatures such as lice and bird mites, are certain to acquire the novel sterilizing wolbachia and who knows where the experiment will go once it’s loose in the mite and lice populations. Most wild chickens for example, carry mites, as do mynah birds, which are everywhere and will bring the experiment into neighborhoods.
Honestly, the project has shown so much contempt failing to prove that their plan is safe, based on anything other than sales science, or that it actually can work as designed, that it seems out of character that they would suddenly care about ecosystem points listed above.
Spontaneously spraying Bti bacterial lavicide into the project speaks volumes however. In the same way that corporations drove DDT spraying trucks through neighborhoods spraying all, including little children, the project demonstrates one over-riding mentality: assuming they have the power to spray anyone, anywhere, at any time, with any substance that they wish. That mentality is long established as a war crime we all know. Glad I didn't sign their check. "Pray we don't alter the contract anymore." How about you pray to stay out of prison!
If not for care about ecosystems, what damage control reason matters more? It’s not tourism; “See Maui, experimental bacteria laden mosquitoes! Feel the bite, feel the pestilence! See Kauai, feel the bite, feel the pestilence, take home a memory!” Nah, they didn’t care.
Damage control could be aimed at much more vital concerns; maybe agriculture, where experimental wolbalchia might not directly infect cows, or pigs, or goats; but it can sure get into a range of parasites that do infect Hawaii's livestock.
Parasites, THAT could be the damage control! Why parasites? Because parasitic hosts that are inside vertebrates, can themselves host wolbachia bacteria. That being the case, when wolbachia takes up residence inside filaria vectors (filariasis diseases) or other vertebrate parasite vectors, that vertebrate, from mice and rats, to cows and humans, then gains a parasite inside hosting a sterilizing wolbachia which might just result in severe human inflammation or illness, or is likely to make the jump to dogs, cats, cows, goats, or other important animals on the filaria highway. (a parasite found in circulatory systems; dog heartworm for example).
The point is, the only logical and obvious reason to alter the project’s established trajectory by introducing Bti larvicide fits the panic damage control seen in the movie Aliens. The projects hallmark sales trick; that of promising to solve one invasive species problem with a different invasive species has resulted in a ‘face-hugger’ problem. Some such problem festers from which the project wishes to save face so as to continue to be good mosquito snake oil salesman.
It was they who raised this red flag, so it's serious. Suddenly spraying Bti bacterial larvicide appears desperate to erase something from the experimental mosquitoes that are already in the wild right here, right now.
All their secrecy needs to be subpoena’d. The likely pattern is that they’ve unleashed a monster, they know it, and they’re trying to cover it up before all Hawaiian’s and the world know about it.
They need to come clean and enlist the broader true science community for help correcting it because Hawaii is full of brilliant people who care deeply for our ‘āina before this gets any worse.
Scientists, please comment your concerns as to why the cover up. Let’s figure out this secretive invasive biomedical project and arrive at genuine solutions that actually fit the spirit of Aloha while there is still time!
https://substack.com/profile/112140167-travis-christian-lau/note/c-64304517
We need eyes on these terrorists. DLNR meeting live stream now. Please watch
https://www.youtube.com/live/1SeLFe9oid0?feature=shared
“Nah, the reason for contaminating Maui and Kauai by spraying bacterial Bti larvicide now cannot possibly be to make a 20 year plan to bomb both islands with novel experimental wolbachia bacteria infected mosquitoes look good. That’s not scientifically possible. It looks bad, it looks really bad.
They knew this would make any project to release mosquitoes infected with a sterilizing bacteria look worse, not better. So why? And why now?
Almost certainly it’s to cover for, or prevent a catastrophe, one that so far is known only to the project, but one that’s already been set in motion by one or more of the infected mosquito bombs (aka “experiments”) dropped on Kauai & Maui over the last year from becoming known to all Hawaiians and to the world.
If I were on the funding end of this, or had signed my approval, I’d be calling for a thorough and genuine scientific AND criminal investigation. And I’d order a full stop effective immediately.
After all, the potential for catastrophe has been enormous all along. The list of possible disasters caused by importing experimental unproven bacterially infected mosquitoes among Hawaii’s endemic species and complex tropical ecosystems and agricultural systems are endless. Here's but a few:
— Could be something simple like the factory where experimental mosquitoes are made accidentally switched batches of wolbachia infected tse-tse flies destined for Africa with infected mosquitoes targeted for Hawaii. Now they need to kill tse-tse flies fast. (there’s been no transparency or accountability to establish project safeguards)
— Maybe they figured out that their ‘medical experiment’ mosquitoes will infect and sterilize unique Hawaiian butterflies, or agriculturally beneficial insects (praying mantis or bees or such). (there’s been no scientific review encompassing all potentially harmed Hawaiian species for applying adequate precautionary principles)
— If they read the actual science instead of their sales science, maybe they discovered that creatures which eat a lot of mosquitoes, such as spiders, will host and morph wolbachia bacteria inside themselves in wildly unpredictable ways. Chickens will eat the spiders, carrying the infected bacteria into whole new ecosystems.
— Even worse, spiders spin webs over water where mosquito larvae hatch to feast. Aquatic creatures will eat the spiders. Spider poop filled with mosquito bacteria will get in the water, as will the bacterially infected mosquitoes and their larvae. Mollusks and crustaceans, such as the sacred ʻ’Ōpaeʻ’ula shrimp, can host wolbachia. These crustaceans could eat infected sterilizing novel mosquitoes or their larvae in streams and ponds thus setting them on a sterilization-injection-by-lab-experiment-gone-wrong crash course.
— Perhaps the factory process that separates females from males screwed up, accidentally filling helicopters full of dangerous females let loose in the wilds of Maui and Kauai. This would seed their novel mosquito species (which carry more pathogens) into the islands and might even replace the less pathogenic mosquitoes already here.
— Maybe they discovered a novel infection or bacterial contamination in the males already released that poses a big problem.
— Perhaps the manufactured mosquitoes had one or more batches with a Malaysian mold or fungal contamination that would harm Hawaii’s crops with dangerous mycotoxins. Plants, especially in a complex tropical climate with 10,000 endemic species, can interact with lab grown wolbachia in unpredictable ways.
— What if they finally did the research and found out that their lab mosquitos will also depopulate other insects that are a food source for many birds such as moths. Starving endangered birds don’t replenish their populations so well.
— Maybe they realized Hawaii is full of biological bridges to a great many species by which the highly changeable wolbachia experiment could collapse other members of Hawaii’s ecosystem.
— Now this damage control factor seems very likely. They figured out that tiny creatures such as lice and bird mites, are certain to acquire the novel sterilizing wolbachia and who knows where the experiment will go once it’s loose in the mite and lice populations. Most wild chickens for example, carry mites, as do mynah birds, which are everywhere and will bring the experiment into neighborhoods.
Honestly, the project has shown so much contempt failing to prove that their plan is safe, based on anything other than sales science, or that it actually can work as designed, that it seems out of character that they would suddenly care about ecosystem points listed above.
Spontaneously spraying Bti bacterial lavicide into the project speaks volumes however. In the same way that corporations drove DDT spraying trucks through neighborhoods spraying all, including little children, the project demonstrates one over-riding mentality: assuming they have the power to spray anyone, anywhere, at any time, with any substance that they wish. That mentality is long established as a war crime we all know. Glad I didn't sign their check. "Pray we don't alter the contract anymore." How about you pray to stay out of prison!
If not for care about ecosystems, what damage control reason matters more? It’s not tourism; “See Maui, experimental bacteria laden mosquitoes! Feel the bite, feel the pestilence! See Kauai, feel the bite, feel the pestilence, take home a memory!” Nah, they didn’t care.
Damage control could be aimed at much more vital concerns; maybe agriculture, where experimental wolbalchia might not directly infect cows, or pigs, or goats; but it can sure get into a range of parasites that do infect Hawaii's livestock.
Parasites, THAT could be the damage control! Why parasites? Because parasitic hosts that are inside vertebrates, can themselves host wolbachia bacteria. That being the case, when wolbachia takes up residence inside filaria vectors (filariasis diseases) or other vertebrate parasite vectors, that vertebrate, from mice and rats, to cows and humans, then gains a parasite inside hosting a sterilizing wolbachia which might just result in severe human inflammation or illness, or is likely to make the jump to dogs, cats, cows, goats, or other important animals on the filaria highway. (a parasite found in circulatory systems; dog heartworm for example).
The point is, the only logical and obvious reason to alter the project’s established trajectory by introducing Bti larvicide fits the panic damage control seen in the movie Aliens. The projects hallmark sales trick; that of promising to solve one invasive species problem with a different invasive species has resulted in a ‘face-hugger’ problem. Some such problem festers from which the project wishes to save face so as to continue to be good mosquito snake oil salesman.
It was they who raised this red flag, so it's serious. Suddenly spraying Bti bacterial larvicide appears desperate to erase something from the experimental mosquitoes that are already in the wild right here, right now.
All their secrecy needs to be subpoena’d. The likely pattern is that they’ve unleashed a monster, they know it, and they’re trying to cover it up before all Hawaiian’s and the world know about it.
They need to come clean and enlist the broader true science community for help correcting it because Hawaii is full of brilliant people who care deeply for our ‘āina before this gets any worse.
Scientists, please comment your concerns as to why the cover up. Let’s figure out this secretive invasive biomedical project and arrive at genuine solutions that actually fit the spirit of Aloha while there is still time!