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“Fetal cells” in COVID-19 vaccines…again

Antivax take on PER.C6 cells
Antivaxxers are at it again, trying to weaponize abortion and "fetal cells" against COVID-19 vaccines.

In the age of COVID, everything old is new again in antivax conspiracy world. This time around, antivaxxers are trying to claim (yet again) that COVID vaccines contain “fetal cells.” Once more into the breach.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Religion

Antivaxxers, COVID-19 vaccines, and “fetal cells”: Everything old is new again

No, fetal cells are not used to make COVID-19 vaccines

Antivaxxers are raising the specter of “fetal cells” being used in COVID-19 vaccines. In the age of the pandemic, everything old is new again!

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Bioethics Medicine Pseudoscience

False analogies and pseudoscience as “moral arguments” against the use of fetal cell lines to manufacture vaccines

Using fetal cells to grow virus for vaccines

Antivaxers frequently object to the use of fetal cell lines to manufacture vaccines on “moral” grounds. Über-quack Joe Mercola lays down some astonishingly bad moral arguments based on pseudoscience.

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Antivaccine nonsense Bad science Medicine Science

Corvelva and “Vaccinegate”: Italian antivaxers produce a dubious “scientific report” on fetal DNA in vaccines

Corvelva

The Italian antivaccine group Corvelva published a really bad “scientific report” claiming fetal DNA in vaccines is dangerous based on a dubious next generation sequencing analysis whose methods are not described. It’s not. To believe its claims, you have to believe that DNA can do anything.

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More horrible antivaccine “science” from Theresa Deisher

DNA from aborted fetuses
Yes, some antivaccinationists really do believe something as stupid as the claim that there are aborted fetuses in vaccines. Yes, they really are that stupid.

As hard as it is to believe after over ten years of existence and over 5,000 posts on SBM, every so often, something reminds me that I’ve missed paper that cries out for some not-so-Respectful Insolence. So it was a couple of weeks ago, when I saw a familiar name in a news story that […]