RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE

"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

Tag: mRNA vaccine

Antivaccine nonsense Biology Cancer Medicine Science

Return of the revenge of “vaccines permanently alter your DNA”

Post author By Orac
Post date June 6, 2023
104 Comments on Return of the revenge of “vaccines permanently alter your DNA”

Plasmid DNA — A typical plasmid.

In a new twist on the “vaccines permanently alter your DNA” trope that antivaxxers love, a microbiologist named Kevin McKernan is falsely claiming that contaminating plasmid DNA from COVID-19 vaccines can get into the nucleus during cell division and “permanently alter your DNA” to horrible effect.

Tags antivaccine, cancer, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, DNA, Kevin McKernan, Moderna, molecular biology, mRNA, mRNA vaccine, mutagenesis, Pfizer, plasmid, RNA, SV40, SV40 promoter, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Biology Medicine Science

Toxins and and monkey DNA and SV40, oh my! COVID-19 vaccines vs. a zombie meme

Post author By Orac
Post date May 31, 2023
52 Comments on Toxins and and monkey DNA and SV40, oh my! COVID-19 vaccines vs. a zombie meme

SV40: The Return of the Living Dead — SV40 is back from the grave and ready to party!

Quack tycoon Joe Mercola resurrects an antivax trope about SV40 to repurpose it to attack COVID-19 vaccines.

Tags antivaccine, cancer, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, DNA, Joseph Mercola, Kevin McKernan, mRNA, mRNA vaccine, plasmid, retrotransposon, spike protein, Sucharit Bhakdi, SV40, SV40 promoter, vaccines

Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

The Brownstone Institute fear mongers about mRNA vaccines

Post author By Orac
Post date March 31, 2023
66 Comments on The Brownstone Institute fear mongers about mRNA vaccines

mRNA vaccines — mRNA vaccines.

Alan Lash is fear mongering about mRNA vaccines in general, once again putting the lie to the Brownstone Institute’s denials of being antivax.

Tags Alan Lash, antivaccine, Brownstone Institute, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 denial, COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA, mRNA vaccine, SARS-CoV-2, vaccine