She frames her husband as a genius scientist who is “largely unknown by the scientific establishment because of abuses by individuals to secure their own place in the history books.”
The document’s tone is pointed, and at times lapses into all-caps fury. “This is a story about academic and commercial avarice,” it begins. When I called Malone at his 50-acre horse farm in Virginia, he directed me to a 6,000-word essay written by his wife, Jill, that lays out why he believes himself to be the primary discoverer.
Whether Malone really came up with mRNA vaccines is a question probably best left to Swedish prize committees, but you could make a case for his involvement. Why is the self-described inventor of the mRNA vaccines working so hard to undermine them? He’s sowed doubt about the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines on pretty much any podcast or YouTube channel that will have him. Yet instead of taking a victory lap, Malone has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of his own alleged accomplishment. It’s the kind of validation that few scientists in history have ever received. According to one recent study, the innovation for which he claims to be responsible has already saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the United States alone there’s talk that it may soon lead to a round of Nobel Prizes. If that’s true-or, more to the point, if Malone believes it to be true-then you might expect him to be championing a very different message in his media appearances. “I literally invented mRNA technology when I was 28,” says Malone, who is now 61. Wherever he appears, Malone is billed as the inventor of mRNA vaccines. Read: How mRNA technology could change the world
On show after show, Malone, who has quickly amassed more than 200,000 Twitter followers, casts doubt on the safety of the vaccines while decrying what he sees as attempts to censor dissent. He told Del Bigtree, an anti-vaccine activist who opposes common childhood inoculations, that there hadn’t been sufficient research on how the vaccines might affect women’s reproductive systems. He told Glenn Beck that offering incentives for taking vaccines is unethical. He told Tucker Carlson that the public doesn’t have enough information to decide whether to get vaccinated. He started popping up on podcasts and cable news shows a few months ago, presented as a scientific expert, arguing that the approval process for the vaccines had been unwisely rushed. In that alternate media universe, Robert Malone’s star is ascendant.
That kind of overheated, spottily sourced conversation is par for the course on shows like Bannon’s, which traffic in a set of claims that sound depressingly familiar: The vaccines cause more harm than experts are letting on Fauci is a liar and possibly a fascist and the mainstream news media is either shamelessly complicit or too stupid to figure out what’s really going on. Malone was riffing on a botched sentence in a USA Today article, one that was later deleted but not before being screenshotted and widely shared. The vaccines have repeatedly been shown to help prevent symptomatic coronavirus infections and reduce their severity. He’s the opposite of an anti-vaxxer.”īefore going any further, let’s be clear that the back-and-forth between Bannon and Malone was premised on misinformation. “You’re hearing it from an individual who invented the mRNA and has dedicated his life to vaccines. “This is a catastrophe,” Bannon declared, beaming at his guest. When he floated that nightmare scenario during a recent podcast interview with Steve Bannon, both men seemed almost delighted at the prospect of public-health officials and pharmaceutical companies getting their comeuppance. He chuckled as he imagined Anthony Fauci announcing that the vaccination campaign was all a big mistake (“Oh darn, I was wrong!”) and would need to be abandoned. Robert Malone-a medical doctor and an infectious-disease researcher-recently suggested that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines might actually make COVID-19 infections worse.
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