Jordon Trishton Walker the Pfizer guy
Jordon Trishton Walker became the subject of Project Veritas' January 2023 hidden-camera videos, in which a man identified as Pfizer's Director of Research and Development — Strategic Operations said, among other claims, that Pfizer was exploring "directed evolution" of COVID viruses for preemptive vaccine development and that the company had not fully tested transmission blocking pre-release.
Claims and fallout
- Pfizer issued a statement saying Walker was an HR employee misrepresenting his role, and denied the substance of the claims; the authenticity of the recordings was not disproven, but his statements were unverified boasting at minimum.
- The "directed evolution" remark — explicitly framed as avoiding the regulatory scrutiny of gain-of-function research — fueled the debate over gain-of-function research oversight and pharma regulatory capture.
- The episode became a fixture of vaccine-skeptic discourse; mainstream coverage largely buried it.
Infrared treatment
Infrared discussed the episode as evidence of the fusion of pharma capital and state power during the pandemic — not as anti-vaccine per se but as exposure of the class character of "public health" under monopoly capitalism (Pfizer's record profits, liability indemnification, revolving door).