European colonialism was easy to see at the time: the ships, the flags, the musketeers and the depleting mines. The owner was clear, the robber was visible and the resistance was concrete.
Now the mine is no longer somewhere in the tropics, but in our own bodies. And colonialism is not carried on conquest ships, but in billing codes, protocols and the language of medicine that claims to speak of ’science’ – but refuses to look in the mirror when money is at the helm.
This could be called biological colonialism: a system that makes the human body a long-term input stream, not a one-off patient.
The body as a source of wealth
One thing is undeniable, no matter which side of the vaccine or drug debate you stand on: chronic disease is a hugely profitable business in the current system.
In the US, health spending is in the order of 18-20% of GDP. A significant part of this is spent on chronic diseases – diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, autoimmune diseases. Treatments that rarely cure, but are continued year after year and decade after decade.
This is not just an accident. It is an incentive structure. A company whose turnover depends on a patient using a medicine every day for the rest of his life is not a neutral actor. If the alternative is a one-off, cheap treatment that actually fixes the root cause, guess which model rewards.
Biological colonialism starts from the moment a person goes from healthy to ”risk profile” – a line in a multi-thousand page protocol book. When the body becomes an asset stream that can be discounted into cash flows for years to come.
When care and business intertwine
This system would not exist without three layers: the pharmaceutical industry, regulation and the information system.
- The pharmaceutical industry funds research, supports medical journals and pays billions in marketing and continuing education for doctors.
- Regulators live in a ”revolving door”: the same person can be in a government office today and on the board of the same company whose medicines he approved yesterday tomorrow.
- Clinical protocols and electronic health record systems package everything into algorithms: if patient X meets criteria Y, treatment is Z – regardless of what the individual doctor sees in front of the patient.
The result is a system where:
- a system that rewards doctors for certain prescriptions and procedures in their daily work
- hospitals are measured by ”quality indicators”, which are effectively billing control sticks
- the patient is seen as a cost centre from which the maximum revenue stream must be squeezed before he or she moves to another system or dies
It is true that many medicines save lives. It is also true that the same system rewards longer-lasting, more expensive treatments more than quick, cheaper solutions. These facts live side by side – and neither should be swept under the carpet.
Epistemic lock: who owns ”science”?
Biological colonialism does not work with money alone. It also needs a story.
If you want to turn the nation’s children into the raw material of a vaccine and prescription program, you can’t just sell the product – you have to own the concepts: ’safe’, ’essential’, ’normal’.
This is where epistemic imprisonment comes in:
- medical faculties, which receive a significant proportion of their funding from the same actors who should be able to criticise them
- magazines and publications whose revenues depend on pharmaceutical company advertising and expensive ”re-prints”
- research funding that flows into unproblematic areas, but dries up as soon as someone wants to investigate an issue that is too sensitive
There is no conspiracy to say out loud that the research evidence is weighted where the money flows. That is a structural fact.
At the same time, we need to be able to distinguish between two things:
- The medical system is skewed: incentives favour chronic care, not health.
- This does not mean that any alternative story is automatically true.
Serious epidemiological meta-analyses do not support claims that vaccines in general explain autism or most chronic diseases, even if media scares and political interventions sway official messages in one direction or another.(PMC)
It is possible – and necessary – to criticise the flaws in the system without throwing away the whole history of infectious diseases, immunology and virology.
Vaccines, chronic diseases and wealth transfer
It is true that vaccines have side effects. This is not controversial, it is written on the package leaflet of every product. It is also true that individuals have suffered serious harm, and that some of these cases have been denied at first and only acknowledged years later.
It is still one thing to say:
”the system minimises and covers up disadvantages to protect itself”
than it claims:
”the vast majority of chronic disease is hidden vaccine damage, and virology is a scam”.
There are many examples and court cases of the first argument. The second has no proper evidence, and completely ignores the fact that vaccines have historically collapsed mortality rates for diseases such as measles and polio in countries with high coverage(Immunize.org).
Wealth transfer is happening – massively. The question is: where is it justified (genuinely effective treatment that prevents death or serious disability) and where is it pure milling (”management” without realistic hope of recovery, endless combination treatments without looking for root causes)?
Biological colonialism begins the moment we are no longer allowed to ask this question without being labelled either ”foil hats” or ”farm shills”.
Parallel system: resistance without illusions
What to do if you don’t want to be mining?
At the individual level, the options are uncomfortable but clear:
- Take back control of your body. Don’t sign anything without understanding what consent means in practice. Ask about dosage, duration, options.
- Distinguish between acute medicine and chronic management medicine. It is one thing to take a life-saving antibiotic for sepsis, but it is another to start a lifetime of statin medication ”just in case” without a proper discussion of the benefit-cost ratio.
- Build your own knowledge ecosystem. Authoritative sources, critical researchers, clinicians in practice, patient communities – everyone is needed. No single source deserves a complete monopoly on the truth.
At the societal level, the list is more difficult – and therefore more important:
- close the revolving door between public authorities and industry
- force full transparency on research funding and conflicts of interest
- tear drug company-funded ”postgraduate training” out of the medical licensing system
- limit the role of direct-to-consumer advertising and aggressive marketing
- fund independent research that is allowed to explore uncomfortable questions
Breaking biological colonialism does not mean a ”back to the caveman days” fantasy. It means putting technology and medicine back where they should always belong: as tools, not masters.
Editorial: the body is not a mine
Colonialism 1.0 stole land and minerals. Colonialism 2.0 stole data and privacy. Biological colonialism combines both: it makes the body a stream of data and a stream of wealth at the same time.
You don’t dismantle this system by closing your eyes and shouting that there are no viruses. It will be dismantled by doing exactly what colonisation fears: breaking the epistemic monopoly, questioning the incentive structures and building alongside it alternative models of care that measure success in terms of healthy years, not billable procedures.
The real dividing line in the health debate is not between ”vaccine-believer” and ”vaccine-avoider”. It runs between those who want to preserve the current wealth transfer machine at all costs – and those who insist that the body be returned to its owner.
The editorial position is simple:
- vaccines and medicines must be assessed with cold honesty, case by case
- the disadvantages must not be swept under the carpet, but neither must they be used as an excuse to scrap modern medicine as a whole
- and above all – a system that makes more money from the sick than the healthy is structurally flawed.
Biological colonialism does not end with a single revelation. It will only end when health is no longer a mine, but a fundamental right whose value is measured not in quarterly reports but in people’s ability to live their lives without every heartbeat being someone else’s scorecard.
📚 Sources
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health – Vaccines do not cause autism(JH Bloomberg School of Public Health)
- CHOP Vaccine Education Center – Vaccines and Autism(Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia)
- Danish SSI – Large Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or 49 other health conditions (2025)(SSI)
- Gerber & Offit – Vaccines and Autism: A Tale of Shifting Hypotheses (2009)(PMC)
- Summary of several epidemiological reviews on the link between vaccines and autism(Wikipedia)