"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).

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

Post author By Orac
Post date October 9, 2019
103 Comments on Corvelva and “Vaccinegate”: Italian antivaxers produce a dubious “scientific report” on fetal DNA in vaccines

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.

Tags antivaccine, cancer, Corvelva, fetal cell lines, fetal DNA, Mike Adams, MMRV, MRC-5, next generation sequencing, Priorix Tetra, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., SNPs, Vaccinegate, vaccines

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Your Friday Dose of Woo (reborn): LifeDNA and its “personalized” skin care products

Post author By Orac
Post date July 20, 2018
57 Comments on Your Friday Dose of Woo (reborn): LifeDNA and its “personalized” skin care products

LifeDNA claims to use genetic testing to optimize a skin care and supplement regimen for you based on over…1,100 scientific studies! Let’s just say that its claims are a lot less impressive when you look at them a little more closely.

Tags genetic testing, LifeDNA, MTHFR, naturopathy, nutrigenetics, nutrigenomics, single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNP, SNPs

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