"Currently, Dr. David Martin runs M-CAM, a company which manages $1.1m in assets for a variety of clients. The main purpose of the business is to analyze patents to determine how much investment value a company is worth. As a result, M-CAM can be considered a type of investment research company. But despite Dr. Martin’s storied and talented past, he also frequently engages in conspiracy theorizing. For example, his novel
Coup D’Twelve is apparently based on true events. Yet the novel states that the 2008 presidential election was not only rigged, but linked to 9/11. On Youtube, Dr. Martin spreads COVID-19 conspiracies, from those around Event 201 to the government using COVID-19 for capitalistic gain.
In “Plandemic,” Dr. Martin states that philanthropists, pharmaceutical and tech companies, and global health organizations like WHO all collaborated to create COVID-19. As a result, he argues, the funded research only puts money back in their pockets. As evidence, he cites a patent filed by the CDC in 2003 around SARS and viral detection. Yet he fails to notice that the patent was designed to keep organizations from monopolizing research and funding. Said Dr. Julie Gerberding, the patent was:
a protective measure to make sure that the access to the virus remains open for everyone.
Next, Dr. Martin falsely claims that viruses cannot be patented because they are natural. He even goes so far as to say:
If it was manufactured, it was a violation of biological and chemical weapons treaties and laws. If it was natural, filing a patent was illegal. In either outcome, both are illegal.
But a UCLA law professor argues that isolated genes or viruses
were patentable, despite the Supreme Court since changing its views. Beyond that, viruses and biological materials are needed for medical and epidemiological research."
