Virology Isn’t a Lie—It’s a Religion
Yeadon exposes the fraud. But are the perpetrators evil—or true believers?
Dr. Mike Yeadon has spent the last several years dismantling the house of cards that is modern virology. A former Pfizer VP turned whistleblower, Yeadon now publishes regularly on his Substack, where he lays out a devastating case: that the entire COVID-19 narrative—from virus to vaccine—was a lie. And not just a mistaken policy response or a bureaucratic error, but a deliberately orchestrated fraud with consequences that are still rippling across society.
Here’s the core of his thesis, which he often distills into a simple equation:
VIRUS lie + CONTAGION lie = VACCINE lie
Yeadon argues that:
There is no scientific proof that viruses exist as causative agents of disease.
Contagion is a myth, unsupported by controlled experiments.
The PCR test is not a diagnostic tool, but rather a method of amplifying arbitrary genetic fragments that do not correspond to any real pathogen.
Vaccines are based on a false premise—that the immune system can be “trained” to defend against a fictional threat.
And ultimately, this lie was used to usher in a totalitarian system of digital IDs, forced injections, and financial control mechanisms like CBDCs (central bank digital currencies).
In short, what we were sold as “public health” was actually a sleekly packaged control system built on layers of deception.
But What If It Wasn’t a Conspiracy—But a Cult?
Here’s where I diverge slightly from Yeadon.
I don’t doubt the fraud. But I think the psychological motivation behind the fraud is more complex than pure malice or greed. Yes, there are financial incentives, and yes, there are bad actors. But what if many of the people perpetuating this system actually believe they’re saving the world?
What if virology isn’t just junk science?
What if it’s a religion?
The High Priests in Lab Coats
Look closely, and the parallels between modern virology and organized religion are uncanny:
Invisible agents of evil (viruses) are said to attack the faithful.
Ritual purification (vaccines, sanitizing, quarantining) is required to keep the body and community "clean."
Skeptics are heretics, excommunicated from academia and smeared in public.
Blind faith in authority replaces independent observation. The high priests (WHO, CDC, NIAID) interpret the divine will of “the science,” and no layperson may question them.
The concept of “asymptomatic transmission” mirrors original sin—you may be “infected” without knowing it, and must therefore obey preventive measures even if you feel perfectly well.
This isn’t medicine. This is theology in a lab coat.
Consensus Is Not Truth
At the heart of this religion is a mystical belief in consensus. The more scientists agree on a thing, the truer it must be. Evidence becomes secondary. Disagreement becomes dangerous.
We’ve reached the point where questioning a failed model—whether it’s the isolation of SARS-CoV-2 or the efficacy of mRNA shots—is equated with “denying science.” But science isn’t a creed to be believed. It’s a method to be tested. And if no one is allowed to test the foundation of the field, then we’re not in a lab—we’re in a temple.
The Danger of Fanaticism
Religious fervor—when untethered from humility—leads to persecution. That’s the danger here. Not merely that virology is wrong, but that its defenders are so certain they are right, they will:
Deny you the right to travel
Lock your children out of school
Force injections on the unwilling
Call for censorship, even jail time, for dissenters
And they will do all this not because they are evil, but because they believe they are righteous.
That is the ultimate horror. Not a Bond villain pulling the strings, but a mob of well-credentialed zealots who’ve convinced themselves they are protecting the flock.
How Do We Break the Spell?
You can’t undo religious conviction with data alone. You have to ask the kind of questions that disrupt the trance:
Why has no virus ever been directly isolated and purified in accordance with Koch’s Postulates?
Why have mass vaccine rollouts failed to stop outbreaks?
Why are there no controlled studies proving person-to-person transmission of diseases like COVID-19?
These questions are dangerous not because they’re false—but because they challenge belief.
The Only Way Out Is Through
Mike Yeadon has risked everything to speak the truth. But if we want that truth to land, we must also understand the psychological architecture of the lie. People didn’t just fall for a hoax. They were inducted into a faith.
And like any faith, it won’t end until enough people stop believing.
That’s where we come in.
Thank you Turfseer, for your perfect reasoning and excellent writing. Nathaniel Branden psychologist philosopher used to explain to his followers that to change, one must immerse oneself into one's own resistence. "The only way out is through".
I have always understood the virus cult as selfless believers, so selfless they have no minds of their own, no will to question, no desire to understand what they choose to believe.
But the first responsibility of every person is to question and think about important issues in their lives. To evade this responsibility is immoral, because life requires making appropriate choices based figuring out what is true or false.
Cultists may not intend to become bad, but that's a flimsy excuse. Jacobins beheaded 50,000 of the fellow French people for wrong-think. The Bolsheviks similarly murdered millions. The virus cultists persecute and punish innocents and then congratulate themselves on their lofty moral vision.
People behave badly because of cowardice and what they perceive as payoff. Rather than having to think and persist, they join and enjoy "safety". Instead of identifying truth and confronting falsehood, they seek gratification: money, promotions and social climbing.
I believe you're right in separating out those that "believed" (even perhaps still believe) what they're told by those they've decided they should trust from those that know and knew exactly evil they were planning to do and the damage that would be caused. The latter must be fully identified and prosecuted.
But even within the former group, I would separate out those that believed but had the humility to admit that they were not experts and didn't really know anything beyond what they heard / were told by those they (in their blue-pilled state) trusted -- TV / mainstream media -- from those that then became and considered themselves "experts" simply by absorbing and re-spouting the lies of those intent on deceiving.
There were and still are those that know deep down, even if they would never admit it, that they studied nothing, were experts in nothing, ate and digested nothing but soundbites and yet considered themselves "informed" enough to condemn those of us that had searched for, found, and studied hundreds and even thousands of hours of information / evidence.
These are nearly as dangerous as those that created and disseminated the lies; indeed, many in this group became enforcers, official and un-official. Without them the truly evil perpetrators of this crime(s) vs humanity would have and would have had much less power to kill, steal, and destroy. They are not innocent.