My bio

Since LinkedIn has banned me for life and removed all my biographic data, here's my bio. I'll update with more details as time permits.

Shorter version

Steve Kirsch is the Executive Director of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (vacsafety.org) and a popular Substack journalist who writes about the pandemic (stevekirsch.substack.com). 

Prior to his work on COVID, Steve was a serial entrepreneur and has founded eight high-technology companies.

When the COVID pandemic hit, Steve took a leave of absence from his company to start the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund which funded clinical trials using repurposed drugs to treat COVID. 

Steve and his family were doubly jabbed in March 2021. A month later, Steve started hearing stories of death and injury from his friends.

He started speaking out publicly on May 25, 2021 with a 285 page article published on TrialSiteNews and an appearance on the Darkhorse podcast with Bret Weinstein and Robert Malone on June 10, 2021. 

Steve was told if he kept speaking out against the vaccine he would have to leave his position at the startup he founded. So he left. He has been permanently banned on Twitter (twice), LinkedIn, Medium, and Wikipedia. His Wikipedia entry has been modified to make him look like an evil person.

No public health official will debate Steve or any of his colleagues, even though such debates would theoretically stop misinformation and end vaccine hesitancy.

He’s also invited fact checkers who challenge him to a debate. None have accepted.

He writes one of the most popular Substacks in the world on vaccine safety.

He has a BS and MS from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Longer version

Steve Kirsch is the Executive Director of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation.

Steve has been at the forefront of tech innovation for more than three decades. He invented and owns a patent on an early version of the optical mouse, founded Infoseek, one of the first Internet search engines, and helped create FrameMaker, a popular publication tool used by technical writers.

Steve was a serial entrepreneur and has founded eight companies: Mouse Systems, FrameTechnology (acquired by Adobe), Infoseek (acquired by Disney), Propel, Abaca, OneID, Token, and M10.

When the COVID pandemic hit, Steve took a leave of absence from his company to start the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund. He put in $1M of his own money and raised $5M more from private sources. The organization funded and/or assisted in the research of four drugs: fluvoxamine, hydroxychloroquine, interferon lambda, and camostat. All four drugs have been shown to be effective in treating COVID, but the FDA and NIH think none of them work.

Steve and his family were doubly jabbed in March 2021. A month later, Steve started hearing stories of death and injury from his friends. So he started looking at the data to see how that could be. He quickly identified obvious fraud in the Pfizer clinical trial and huge safety signals in the VAERS system that could only be caused by a very dangerous vaccine. Instantly, it all made sense. The evidence he found was consistent with an unsafe vaccine and a corrupt medical system. The more he learned, the more appalled he became.

He started speaking out publicly on May 25, 2021 with a 285 page article published on TrialSiteNews.

He appeared on the Darkhorse podcast with Bret Weinstein and Robert Malone. YouTube censored the video after 1M views and rave reviews. (1 hour version and full version) and demonetized his YouTube channel.

Steve was told if he kept speaking out against the vaccine he would have to leave his position at the startup he founded. So he left. He has been permanently banned on Twitter (twice), LinkedIn, Medium, and Wikipedia. His Wikipedia entry has been trashed to make him look like an evil person. They even removed the fact that he received a National Caring Award since this was inconsistent with positioning that the Wikipedia editors wanted to convey: that he was an evil person and a menace to society.

Steve started the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation which co-sponsors events such as Defeat the Mandates and other activities to help educate the public on the safety of the vaccines.

No public health official will debate Steve or any of his colleagues, even though such debates would theoretically stop misinformation and end vaccine hesitancy.

He’s also invited fact checkers who challenge him to a debate. None have accepted.

Steve has briefed only two public health officials who ignored everything he said. He’s never been invited to brief any corporate board or university Board of Trustees as none of them are interested in hearing the other side of the story.

He has a BS and MS from MIT.

Steve and his wife, Michele started a foundation which donates to a wide variety of charitable causes, and were subsequently named the 1999 Outstanding Philanthropists of the Year by the National Society of Fund Raising Executives. He is a 1997 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

He writes one of the most popular Substacks in the world on vaccine safety with over 500 articles. You can view some of his best non-Substack content here.

My resume from LinkedIn

Thanks to SignalHire which cached my LinkedIn entry before they permanently banned me, here is my work history.

Summary

I've founded 7 companies, 2 with billion dollar valuations. I'm currently involved in researching the safety of the COVID vaccines with 20 other scientists, doctors, and statisticians. What we've found is very troubling. You can see my recommendations for treating COVID, vaccine injury, and vaccine safety at www.skirsch.io. I love tackling really hard problems. My innovations have spanned a broad range: optical mouse, Internet search, desktop publishing, spam filtering, Internet acceleration, secure federated identity, open banking, and digital money. I'm a proponent of nuclear power to help solve the global warming problem. I was an Executive Producer of "Pandora's Promise." I helped rid the US of junk faxes (junkfax.org). Married 28 years; 3 daughters. I've been involved with computers for 50 years (since I was 10 years old). I've programmed in almost two dozen languages, and was lucky enough to work with the pioneers of the Internet while I was in junior high school. I shared an office with Jon Postel at UCLA (he wrote the email protocol we use today). I wrote the email program used by the Internet inventors at UCLA. Vint Cerf recommended I go to MIT. Charitable foundation: www.kirschfoundation.org The Computer Science Auditorium at MIT (Kirsch Auditorium) is named after me (but to be honest, a multi-million dollar gift influenced that decision). Interests: Making a the world a better place, improving the user experience in banking/payments, identity, cybersecurity, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, glaucoma, type 2 diabetes. An article I wrote on Quora, "Why is Elon Musk so successful?" is the #2 hit on Google and has nearly 1M views.

Skills:

• Agile Methodologies

• Apache

• Architecture

• Big Data

• Cloud Computing

• Computer Security

• Cryptography

• Databases

• Distributed Systems

• Encryption

• Enterprise Architecture

• Enterprise Software

• Entrepreneurship

• Git

• Go-to-market Strategy

• Hadoop

• High Availability

• Identity Management

• Java

• JavaScript

• Linux

• Messaging

• Mobile Applications

• Mobile Devices

• MySQL

• Network Security

• Open Source

• Perl

• Philanthropy

• PHP

• PostgreSQL

• Product Management

• Python

• REST

• SaaS

• Scalability

• Scrum

• Security

• Software Design

• Software Development

• Software Engineering

• Start-ups

• Strategic Partnerships

• System Architecture

• TCP/IP

• Unix

• Virtualization

• Web Applications

• Web Services

• XML