
by James Lyons-Weiler
July 01, 2025
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An
apparent leaked minutes document
(BIO
Vaccine Policy Steering Committee)
suggests
that a trade association
held a
meeting in April to undo
the
confirmation of Kennedy
by the
duly elected US Senate...
Caveat and
Clarification
All references to
individuals, statements, or actions attributed in
the leaked minutes of the
BIO Vaccine Policy Steering Committee meeting held on April
3, 2025, should be understood as excerpts from an internal
document that has not been publicly authenticated by the
named parties.
These statements
represent the content of the document as obtained and
published, and do not constitute confirmed factual claims
about the intent, conduct, or positions of any individual
mentioned.
The document reflects
the internal framing and strategy of BIO and is presented
here for the public to assess, interpret, and investigate.
Readers are encouraged
to seek independent confirmation, request public statements
from the individuals involved, and draw conclusions based on
full context and corroborating evidence.
The document was
received anonymously by whistleblowers and provided to
Popular Rationalism for
public analysis.
Its provenance is under
review.
On the eve before the US Senate reconvenes, a
detailed secret trade-association memo plotting the removal
of US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy,
Jr. has leaked.
It reads like,
a coup attempt against
regulatory reform - and they are spending millions to make sure
Kennedy is out of office by September...
It seems that the Biotechnology Innovation
Organization (BIO),
whose membership includes,
...and hundreds of biotech firms that profit from
regulatory insulation, has a mole.
This article critiques the documented lobbying
behavior of the trade group BIO, not the internal operations or
clinical data of its member corporations.
When the nation's leading pharmaceutical trade group convenes a
closed-door strategy meeting and openly discusses the need to,
"go to The Hill and lobby that it is time for
RFK Jr. to go",
...the issue is no longer health policy - it is
democratic integrity.
According to the apparent leaked minutes, verified by the name of
the creator of the file, on April 3, 2025,
BIO held a "Vaccine Policy Steering
Committee" (VPSC) meeting whose internal summary, soon to be
publicly available thanks to whistleblowers,
reveals a campaign of strategic deception,
institutional capture, and psychological warfare and exposes a
campaign of institutional deception, investor protection, and
coordinated sabotage of the
MAHA reform platform...
According to the leaked document, titled "BIO
Vaccine Policy Steering Committee - April 3, 2025", BIO
has committed $2 million - half of its cash reserve - to
counter what it calls the "threat" posed by Kennedy's rise.
But this is no ordinary PR push.
It is a multi-pronged campaign designed to,
deceive the public, silence dissent, and
preserve industry dominance through influence operations
masquerading as science.
The Plot Exposed
The document opens with a blunt political calculation:
Kennedy's candidacy threatens investor
confidence, regulatory predictability, and the long-term
viability of the vaccine business.
BIO leadership in the apparent leaked document
states plainly:
"It is time to go to The Hill and lobby that
it is time for RFK Jr to go."
To achieve this, according to the document, BIO
intends to deploy surrogates across the political
spectrum, co-opt conservative influencers, and bypass direct
engagement with the Kennedy campaign altogether.
Among the figures named as potential allies in
this covert effort:
-
Dr.
Mehmet Oz
-
former Senator
Richard Burr (former
Senator NC; Advisor DLA Piper Health Policy Steering
Committee)
-
Senator
Bill Cassidy (in a
section of the document focused on strategic influencer
engagement and legislative positioning)
-
the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
These individuals and
institutions, the memo suggests, can provide a veneer of
bipartisan legitimacy to BIO's core aim:
neutralize Kennedy without ever addressing
the substance of his critique.
Follow the Money
The most revealing detail is that $2 million - precisely half of
BIO's entire $4 million reserve - has been allocated to vaccine
communications, specifically a D.C.-area pilot campaign called "Why
We Vaccinate."
The purpose is not education, but behavioral
influence:
to combine "inspire and frighten" tactics in
order to manipulate public sentiment and legislative behavior.
Internal documents state clearly that the
campaign's goal is to appeal to the "movable middle" using
emotionally charged messaging, capitalizing on fear messaging
tied to national security, workforce resilience, and economic
productivity.
Why such an aggressive push?
Because, as Vaxcyte COO Jim Wassil
apparently warned,
"investors have stated they are leaving until
the next data readout",
...citing Kennedy's "unpredictability" as a
systemic disruption to the vaccine capital pipeline.
Given Kennedy's demand for restored liability, long-term data, and
placebo-controlled trials, BIO appears to view Kennedy's proposals
as a threat to the entire shortcut pipeline BIO built under EUA
conditions.
BIO's fear is not scientific opposition - it's that Kennedy's
regulatory scrutiny may render their current profit model obsolete.
"According to the document's summary, one
participant expressed concern that 'Investors are sitting on the
sidelines for the next 6-9 months'."
Capital has fled the vaccine sector, and
Kennedy's reform agenda is making it difficult for (Big)
Pharma executives to assure
investors that the regulatory terrain remains exploitable.
As a reminder, these statements are drawn from the contents of an
internal memo that has not been publicly confirmed by the named
individuals.
Interpretations remain provisional.
Hijacking Language
The VPSC meeting wasn't just about funding.
It was also about redefining language.
BIO officials emphasized a shift in framing -
from "protect," "defend," and "maintain" to "streamline,"
"optimize," and "enhance."
But these are not reforms.
They read as an attempt at narrative laundering
operations.
When BIO says "efficiency," it means fewer
safety requirements.
When it says "resilience," it means consumer
obedience, not protection from harms from vaccines held to the
Kennedy Bar.
And when it says "transparency," it means
secretive PR-managed theater, not data disclosure.
This is rhetorical mimicry - a deliberate tactic
to adopt the aesthetic of reform while preserving the machinery of
capture.
This differs from standard PR in that it aims to
overwrite language itself:
...a deliberate attempt to steal the language of
biomedical reform while ensuring that no structural reform ever
occurs - and no one notices the difference.
Divide and Conquer
BIO's strategic calculus is unmistakable:
avoid confronting RFK, Jr. head-on and
instead flood the surrounding narrative space with surrogate
voices engineered to appear neutral, authoritative, and
scientifically grounded.
The April 3 memo explicitly recommends targeting
"Makary and Trump Insiders vs. RFK, Jr.," signaling an intention to
bypass public debate in favor of internal triangulation.
Within this framework, Dr. Mehmet Oz is
floated as a potential "public health voice of reason within WH,"
praised for his healthcare credentials and presumed credibility with
conservative audiences.
While no specific action is proposed, the implication is clear - the
document suggests BIO may aim to elevate Oz as a counterweight to
Kennedy's reform agenda by leveraging his media fluency and
perceived scientific legitimacy to repackage industry talking points
under the guise of responsible governance.
This is not policy:
it's psychological misdirection
through proxy, as the document implies.
The document also names AEI as a "trusted"
conduit for pro-vaccine messaging, with
Scott Gottlieb
calling the MAHA movement a,
"cover for an anti-vaccine campaign."
It floats Dr. Oz as a possible public face of
White House-aligned medical messaging.
It outlines plans to use conservative
constituents and influencers not to question BIO's agenda, but to
normalize it among skeptics.
Nowhere in the document is there any serious
discussion of scientific debate.
Nowhere is there a plan to confront Kennedy's
actual policy proposals - such as the Kennedy Bar, which calls
for,
-
preclinical safety testing
-
raw data publication
-
long-term health tracking
-
restoration of manufacturer liability
Instead, BIO's plan is to erase Kennedy's
credibility through managed optics and surrogate deployment.
Fear of the Public
BIO's own admissions reveal the true motive behind this campaign:
fear...!
Not of disease, but of regulatory disruption.
With RFK, Jr. and Commissioner (Martin
Adel)
Makary and team tightening
standards, BIO executives are alarmed that predictable, post-market
surveillance standards are expected to be enforced - and with them,
the rapid market influence leverage built during Operation Warp
Speed.
Behind this campaign:
fear. Not of disease, but of
accountability...!
Novavax, Merck, and Vaxcyte executives appear to
express concern over ACIP's new caution, the FDA's slow-walking of
approvals, and the crumbling of once-reliable regulatory shortcuts.
With Kennedy and Commissioner Makary tightening
the reins, BIO fears it can no longer exploit the revolving door
between industry and agency.
One quote in particular encapsulates the panic:
"They keep moving the goalposts on vaccines."
This is simply not true.
The goalposts aren't moving...
For the first time in decades, they are being
reinstalled on the actual playing field of science, safety,
and consent.
Why September Matters
Though the leaked memo from BIO's Vaccine Policy Steering Committee
never names September outright, its entire architecture reveals a
timeline racing toward it.
September marks a convergence point...:
political, narrative, and financial, where
BIO knows it must have reshaped the battlefield or risk losing
control of it entirely.
By then, Congress will be back in full session
after its summer recess, and the fiscal year will near its end,
placing vaccine policy, public health budgets, and FDA funding under
the spotlight.
Appropriations negotiations are not neutral in
this climate - they are leverage points.
If RFK, Jr. maintains or grows his influence
through the summer, BIO faces the real possibility that reformist
voices could restrict their easy funding pipelines, delay regulatory
approvals, or demand hearings that expose industry-government
entanglements.
September is also the reopening of the American schools - and the
media mind. Fall marks the relaunch of political programming, the
release of think tank policy reports, and the return of the elite
opinion economy.
BIO's $2 million "Why We Vaccinate" campaign
isn't just a marketing push - it's a narrative strike, timed to
reassert emotional control over an audience emerging from summer's
distractions.
They want to preempt Kennedy's messaging before
he dominates the fall discourse with facts, reform principles, and
the moral clarity of a movement demanding consent.
Finally, September sets the tone for the next political cycle.
Though national elections won't be held until later, two House
special elections will serve as bellwethers.
Candidate filings, local endorsements, and policy
positions will crystallize as donors and power brokers assess
momentum. BIO knows it has a narrow window to discredit Kennedy
before he becomes not just a candidate - but a coalition.
That's why the clock in the memo isn't ticking
toward November.
It's ticking toward September.
Global Implications
BIO's apparent plot is not isolated.
If the leak is genuine, and it appears so far to
be, it aligns with other suppression architectures:
ESG-based financial pressure on corporations
to support mandates,
WHO treaty harmonization that
threatens sovereign health policy, and social media and AI
systems that algorithmically suppress dissent.
-
ESG-driven pharma score systems that
reward coercive health mandates
-
WHO treaty harmonization that threatens
national sovereignty
-
AI-based censorship systems that erase
dissenting medical viewpoints
The April 3 memo must be read not just as a
domestic political act, but as a nodal maneuver in a transnational
agenda to control the terms of health, science, and consent.
One AEI-aligned strategist even claimed that
MAHA was a 'cover for an
anti-vaccine campaign' - a telling attempt to delegitimize not
arguments, but their right to exist.
Pro-science is now anti-vaccine, and it has been
for some time.
This isn't a war against misinformation.
It's a war against public transparency in
science.
BIO fears Kennedy not because he is wrong,
but because he has exposed the scaffolding of
a regime that substitutes marketing for medicine.
He has publicly pledged reforms that, if enacted,
could disrupt the financial and regulatory relationships
this memo appears to protect by requiring the firms actually follow
the rules.
The $2 million smear campaign is not a show
of strength.
It is a confession of institutional fragility
- a desperate gambit to buy time before the public finally
demands the truth.
This is not a referendum on Kennedy. It is a
referendum on whether regulatory science will serve the people or
the shareholders.
And this time, the people have the receipts...!
***
Verbatim Evidence of
the Takedown Plan
Source
"It's time for RFK Jr. to go"
"It is time to go to The Hill and lobby
that it is time for RFK Jr to go..."
This is not a debate. It's a purge. A direct call for
political extermination of a candidate using institutional
leverage.
Attack the Circle, Not the Man
"More productive to target Makary and
Trump Insiders vs RFK Jr."
"Target legislators and influencers (as opposed to directly
with RFK Jr)"
This is asymmetrical warfare - surround and cut off the
target by poisoning the well around him.
Deploy Controlled Voices to Simulate Public Consensus
"Dr. Oz can be public health voice of
reason... Potential role educating the public."
Dr. Oz, a media-friendly asset, isn't being selected for his
expertise - but for his malleability. The goal is not truth
- it's control of perception.
Exploit Fear to Subdue the Public
"Campaign needs to both inspire and
frighten (potential outcomes)"
This is psychological warfare. The intent is to bypass
rational discourse and use fear conditioning to shift public
behavior.
Frame Dissent as a National Security Risk
"Reposition vaccines as national security
assets."
"Focus on the national security benefit..."
Opposition becomes "dangerous." Debate becomes "threat."
This is how democratic discourse is silenced under the cloak
of patriotism.
Control the Language, Control the Narrative
"Change messaging from 'protect',
'defend'... to 'optimize', 'transparency', 'efficiency'."
This is narrative laundering - dressing coercion in the
language of progress to disguise the erosion of public
autonomy.
Infiltrate the Base - Undermine from Within
"Focus attention and dialog on
grassroots/state/local level (vs Federal)"
"Engage conservative voices and grassroots influencers
rather than federal figures like RFK Jr."
They know RFK Jr.'s strength lies in the
grassroots - so they've marked it as a battlefield.
This is infiltration, not dialogue...
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Scott Gottlieb's alarm,
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