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"After years of outstanding service with the CDC, those ungrateful bastards made a big deal out of one little research glitch," complained DeStefano.  "I'd designed hundreds of other research studies, all of which virtually guaranteed a favorable result.  How could I have known that injecting the MMR vaccine sooner rather than later would cause so many more cases of autism, and that we'd have to cover it up?  How could I possibly have known that some weasel whistleblower would leak the data?


"We were all counting on my suave demeanor and stellar credentials to smooth things over, with the help of the usual glossy media stooges.  But there were a bunch of busy-bodies in the independent press, and mothers and fathers of kids with autism, who just wouldn't let it rest.  They kept wanting to dig deeper and deeper, looking for more fraud, encouraging other whistleblowers to come forward, and so on.     

"The CDC needed someone to throw under the bus, fast, to show the public they were on top of things.  Since I was the lead researcher on the study, I was it.  They shuffled me off to an old basement lab that used to be a secret ops center for the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, before some anti-science do-gooders put the kibosh on it. 

"One day I was sitting there in the basement, browsing through old pictures of the Tuskegee research subjects and thinking my career was pretty much over, when I got the idea for Street Corner Labs. 

"I realized there was a lot of research that the CDC didn't want to touch.  Some of the CDC researchers still had a conscience.  Their careers and loyalty were hanging on a fragile thread of willful blindness, and the CDC didn't want them near any studies that might snap it. 

"Researchers are basically prostitutes of science, even if some of them like to call it true love," chuckled DeStefano.  "They know research always comes with a price, and without repeat business, they'd be lost.  Still, most researchers consider themselves too 'high class' to tackle the real down and dirty that the medical cartel needs sometimes. 

"So I started Street Corner Labs, offering science to meet the most hardcore needs, and it ended up being a huge success.  We kept it a private operation, separate from the CDC, so we wouldn't have to worry about Freedom of Information Act requests and so forth.   


"Our first project was the 'pregnancy problem'.  Vaccine sales to pregnant women were doing better than ever, but there was a lot of pressure to find a way to remove that pesky warning from the vaccine insert about how it had never been tested for safety on pregnant women. 


"We knew we couldn't ask any of the 'upstairs' researchers to do those studies.  I mean, even the most willfully blind among them knew it was crazy to inject mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde and the like into a pregnant woman.  It's not like doing it to a child, where there's a long history of tradition behind it.  

"Over the years, Street Corner Labs handled a lot of tough research requests.  There was the up-and-coming pharmaceutical firm that needed approval of an ADHD drug that was half fluoride and half mercury.  Within a year, we had a ream of studies to back it up, and it was selling like hotcakes.

"Then there was the firm that specialized in treatments for Parkinson's.  They had developed a drug to prevent Parkinson's that was 92% aluminum -- boy, was that ever a tough job, but we got it done.  It turned out to be a bestseller among people who had parents with Parkinson's.


"Street Corner Labs has made a lot of pharmaceutical dreams come true, and my own dreams as well."

 

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By Ed. | nworeporter.com

Image by Guillame Seignac [PD-Old] | Remix by nworeporter.com


September 3, 2042
What does a respected medical researcher do when he messes up big time and finds himself relegated to the basement of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention? 

If you're Dr. Frank DeStefano, you exercise your entrepreneurial spirit and convert that dank, disused basement lab into a highly lucrative money-making operation -- Street Corner Labs, a private boutique laboratory catering to pharmaceutical desires so perverse that no ordinary researcher would touch them, even with sterile gloves.

Now retired and living in luxury on a palatial estate in the Bahamas, few would guess at the career disaster that hit Dr. DeStefano twenty-eight years ago in 2014.


NWO Reporter's Henry Foster dug up the old story in an imaginative attempt to secure a 2-week working vacation in the Bahamas for an in-depth interview.  Surprisingly, NWO Reporter owner GlobalUnifiedMegaCorp agreed.


What follows is Dr. DeStefano's amazing 5-minute story, brought to you here, uncut: