Review of facts. Did Pfizer assume its vaccines were a military bioterrorism project?

Posts are circulating on Facebook that the pharmaceutical company Pfizer has confirmed that its vaccines are a terrorist project of the United States Department of Defense. In it mail, with a link to a supposed news item, you can read: “BOMB! “Pfizer claims that the vaccines were a military bioterrorism and chemical terrorism project of the Department of Defense: Jornal Verdade Censurada.” The publication is false.

It is enough to read the text of the indicated link to realize that, although the title is misleading, the alleged accusations are not even attributed to the pharmaceutical company, but to Sasha Latypova, who is identified as a “former pharmaceutical research and development executive”— although there is no explicit reference to a career in the pharmaceutical sector on his Linkedin profile.

Furthermore, when searching open sources, no credible reference was found that would allow Pfizer to make a statement linking the vaccines to a “military bioterrorism project.”

Still, The Observer contacted the pharmaceutical company for this fact check, which reported: “Pfizer does not recognize the statement in question.” And he went further, guaranteeing that “he did not receive any public funding to support the development of the Covid-19 vaccine.”

The publications that appeared on social networks have also been denied by other international fact-checkers, such as Lupa, from Brazil.

Conclusion

It is not true that the pharmaceutical company Pfizer stated that the vaccines were “a military bioterrorism and chemical terrorism project of the Department of Defense.” [dos EUA]”, according to several publications circulating on Facebook. In addition to there being no results in open sources that point to statements in this regard, Pfizer assured the Observer that it does not recognize “the statement in question” and reinforced that it had not received “any public funding to support the development of the Covid-19 vaccine.” .

Thus, according to the Observer classification system, this content is:

MISTAKEN

In the Facebook classification system this content is:

FAKE: claims about the main content are factually inaccurate. Generally, this option corresponds to “false” or “mostly false” ratings on fact-checking websites.

NOTE: This content was curated by Observador as part of a fact-checking partnership with Facebook.