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Likewise, who are we to say that parents can’t choose to terminate their infant, toddler, child, or adolescent? Isn’t it THEIR choice what to do with the products of THEIR bodies?

Oh, I should amend this. Only the woman should have such a choice. Men have no right to say what a woman does with the products of HER body, even if they are genetically half his.

I recall giving you a fairly comprehensive reading list of university level textbooks (along with links to buy them on Amazon) some time ago.

Have you purchased any of those books? Have you studied any of them?

If you would do that, you might start to get some background knowledge of the relevant science.

But I’m guessing that you haven’t bothered. You’re still posting tweets as if they are primary sources of information. You wouldn’t do that if you understood even the basics of immunology, molecular biology, virology, biochemistry, pharmacology, etc. etc. You would understand, for example, that a lab leak would put the epicenter of the outbreak at the lab or at a researcher’s residence, not at a market several miles away.

Quit posting innuendo and inference. How about reading some bona fide scientific or legal documents from legitimate sources (NOT Twitter), instead? You might learn something.

While he was involved in some early research into the technology, his role in its creation was minimal at best, say half a dozen Covid experts and researchers, including three who worked closely with Dr. Malone

When I was a new graduate student, I "test-drove" Malone's lab, along with three other labs, in order to choose one in which to do my graduate work.

Malone was not working on mRNA at all. He gave me a project to investigate the molecular events of lipid membrane fusion between cell membranes and lipid micelles. He assigned me a hundred or so papers to read on it, as well, so that I spent hours just reading in the lab. He was also working on a product to compete with Lipofectin or Lipofectamine for delivery of plasmids into cells. In addition, he was studying the HIV virus, I think with the goal of eventually developing a vaccine. And, finally, he was trying to develop a system to treat cystic fibrosis by inserting normal copies of the defective gene into lung cells. This was, as he explained, a very challenging task since the lung mucus lining contains abundant nucleases.

So, yeah, add me to the list of researchers who have worked with Bob Malone and report that he had little to do with mRNA vaccine technology. This technology was not the result of a single researcher toiling away in the lab like in some science fiction show; it resulted from decades of work by hundreds or thousands of researchers.

Thank you for the link. The memories it brings back of the time I spent in the lab just optimizing experimental conditions so that I could finally test the hypothesis I really wanted to test!

While reading it, I came to a realization.

Antivaxxers love to scare people by telling them that the mRNA vaccines are unnatural and will stay in the body forever.

What occurs to me is that if we could come up with an mRNA vaccine that stayed in the body forever, the immunity induced by that vaccine would never wane. So, ironically, if vaccines had the attributes that antivaxxers claim they do, vaccines would actually be “true” vaccines according to antivaxxer false definition of vaccine.

and there is m(odified)rna

m(odified)rna is not a scientific term. mRNA, scientifically, is an abbreviation for "messenger RiboNucleicAcid."

The notion that any scientist would use "mRNA" to refer to modified RNA is completely false. We don't say that.

RNA has a lot of different functions and has a lot of names depending on the function. Messenger RNA (mRNA) very specifically refers to an RNA which carries a copy of a gene to the ribosome in order to make the protein encoded in that gene. Other types of RNA include siRNA, snRNA, mtRNA, tRNA, rRNA, etc. Any kind of RNA can be and is modified through natural processes. Thus, the term "m(odified)rna" is not only not a scientific term, it is actually meaningless. The vaccine mRNA is modified to increase its stability using completely natural enzymes. Without those completely natural modifications, it would not last long enough after injection to even reach cells. The immune system destroys RNA pretty rapidly.

i watched a vid of a person pulling out that insert at a pharmacy and it was in fact blank except for the words

Oh, you saw a video and therefore it's true.

Anyone can show anything in a video. Did you fact-check the video at all by going to the manufacturer or FDA website and looking up the product insert for yourself?

Some product inserts do not fill up all the space on the paper. When this happens, they have a statement that says "This page intentionally left blank." I bet that's what the video was showing you.

PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE (published December, 2022).

Covid-19 Vaccine Pfizer Prescribing Information published in December, 2020 and updated January, 2023.

The FDA has very strict requirements for what must be included on a package insert and on the package itself. All the way at the bottom of the second link, it shows what the vaccine packages and vial labels must look like.

I recognize that videos such as the one you describe are supposed to make people believe that drug companies are pulling the wool over people's eyes. Those who make such videos have a very specific audience in mind: they are targeting people who have no understanding whatsoever of biology, immunology, or pharmacology and who don't know how to fact-check.

In reality, trying to get something past the FDA is harder than trying to pull a fast one on the IRS. Remember Reagan's saying, "We're from the government and we're here to help you"? To the government, a pharmaceutical company and an individual citizen are the same. Neither one is going to get away with trying to fool the government. It's actually harder for a pharmaceutical company since the government (through the FDA) is watching everything they do.

FDA to pharmaceutical companies: "Every breath you take, every move you make, I'll be watching you"--Sting.

You’re welcome.

That is not how the mutatedRNA vaxes work and you know it.

Um, yeah. Can you explain in scientific terms what "mutatedRNA" is? Do you even know what RNA is and describe all of its various physical forms and functions?

I doubt it.

RNA (of all types) mutates readily. This is because there are not RNA repair enzymes the way there are DNA repair enzymes. But never mind. I can tell that you have never taken any sort of molecular biology course.

The mutatedRNA vaxes work by reprogramming your cells to make spike protein.

Are you aware that every time you catch a viral infection, billions of cells in your body are "reprogrammed" to do nothing but make new viruses? That means that those cells that used to belong to you now belong to a virus. And they make virus genomes, mRNA, and proteins from which they make new viruses until they either burst from the mass of viruses inside them or are killed by your immune system. If you are lucky, that is. There are plenty of viruses that kill before the immune system ever mounts a response.

An mRNA vaccine, on the other hand, only directs cells at the injection site to make one single virus protein for a few hours. mRNA has a very short half-life. Within a couple of days, the mRNA is gone. Because a single mRNA message is incapable of taking over the function of a cell, the cell continues all of its normal functions while making spike protein.

Oh, and some viruses never leave your body. They stay forever, forcing cells to do nothing but make new viruses. Some coronaviruses are known to do this. Herpes viruses and papillomaviruses also do this. Ever have chickenpox? Then the chickenpox virus is still in your body.

Viruses are nasty. Yet you are going to choose to be afraid of a vaccine because some antivaxxers who want people to die told you a bunch of lies that they know you don't know how to fact-check.

Oh, I so hope you are right!

I’ve been hoping for another Carrington event, since the descriptions of that event sound amazing. I’d love to see the aurora from down here in south Texas.

The AstraZeneca vaccine was made using an adenovirus vector. It is similar to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which was also based on adenovirus.

The adenovirus vaccines were found to slightly increase the risk of blood clots. The mRNA vaccines do not increase blood clot risk. Covid-19, of course, greatly increases the risk of blood clots, which occur in about 30% of hospitalized Covid patients.

Partly because of the slightly increased risk of blood clots with the J&J vaccine, the FDA revoked approval of this vaccine in June, 2023. It is not surprising, therefore, that the AstraZeneca vaccine is also being pulled.

I do not know if other vaccines based on an adenovirus vector would also increase the risk of blood clots. I also do not know why the adenovirus-based vaccines had this risk. There is currently a gene therapy being developed which uses adenovirus to deliver a gene encoding VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) to help patients with angina grow new blood vessels in the heart and decrease the angina pain. Although this use of the adenovirus is called a gene therapy (because it replicates what a natural human gene does), it is doubtful that the adenovirus will stick around for any length of time.

Gene Therapy Allowing Heart to Grow New Blood Vessels Supported by Early Data

Wow, easily debunked lies starting from the first sentence!

When the COVID vaccines were first being distributed to the public, the vaccine inserts were intentionally left blank.

Nope. Providing a copy of the intended product insert is a requirement for FDA approval. The vaccine inserts are and always have been available both at the manufacturers' websites and at the FDA. Links to all pertinent information about the Covid-19 vaccines can be found at the FDA's COVID-19 Vaccines webpage.

And for those who did their own research, they were discovered to be deadly.

What, exactly, is "their own" research? Finding and reading a few antivax screeds on the internet? Because I can guarantee that "their own" research doesn't include any laboratory investigations or review of the pertinent scientific studies.

And on what basis is mRNA deadly? It is contained in every cell of every living organism. Oh, the mRNA is deadly because it encodes a virus gene? Then getting infected with the actual virus must be several times more deadly, since the virus infects cells all over the body and forces them all to make virus mRNA and virus proteins. And the virus doesn't just force cells to make spike mRNA; it has 29 genes that it forces cells to transcribe into mRNA and then translate into proteins.

The Moderna patent for this mRNA technology stated that they contain self assembling lipid nanoparticle technology.

In layperson terms, lipids are fats. And fats are known to aggregate, which is a form of self-assembly. Ever mix an oil-and-vinegar salad dressing and let it sit for a few minutes? The fat all aggregates at the top, doesn't it? It's the chemical nature of fats to do this. So what if the Moderna patent states that it is using a physical property of fats to make a vaccine?

Over a hundred pathogens that can be control released over time so that deaths will appear to be random and mysterious.

Um... a single gene is not a pathogen. A pathogen contains many genes that work together to make it pathogenic. And people have died randomly forever--which is hardly mysterious.

We know that vaccines can have unintended consequences, aka side effects, but nobody's really talking about it because they're too afraid of blame and they just want it to go away.

The side effects of vaccines are caused by three things. The most common cause of side effects is the immune system, because it reacts to a vaccine exactly the same way it reacts to a pathogen. So, these side effects are similar to symptoms of the disease (but have a shorter duration). A rare cause of side effects is improper administration of the vaccine, for example, accidently giving the shot near the shoulder joint instead of in the muscle. And another rare side effect is a reaction to various vaccine ingredients. An allergic reaction to a vaccine is also caused by the immune system.

Cuomo assures us that there will be another pandemic.

Well, yes. We can never know what might be lurking in the animal population that will turn out to be able to cause pandemics in people. Pandemics have been a fact of life since humans began recording history and they will continue to be a threat far into the future.

I'm not going to discuss the various conspiracy statements in this blog. Conspiracies aren't my thing.

Whenever I read something like this, I regret even less my decision to not move back to California. Not that I regretted it much to begin with. Texas is great!

Well, I have read that Covid-19 is about eight times more deadly for diabetics than for other people.

So, it makes sense that a diabetes drug would help diabetics to survive Covid. Metformin doesn’t actually have antiviral effects. But by controlling the diabetes that predisposes people to die, it helps indirectly.

Thanks.

I am extremely curious as to what the mechanism of action is. The article did not say.

I have been taking supplemental vitamin D (with physician guidance) since long before I got cancer.

Lack of vitamin D causes problems. But surplus of vitamin D is not preventive or curative.

It’s like food. If you don’t get enough, you have problems. But getting too much isn’t healthy, either.

The Goldilocks principle is in full force here.

I am so sorry to hear that.

I’ve read stories online about people dying from believing charlatans like Mercola. It’s so tragic and unnecessary.

I know that medical science does not have all of the answers, but there is no group that knows more about medicine than physicians and researchers.

I would expect someone to have a lot more wrinkles at age 75,000. Those reconstructive surgeons did an amazing job in erasing those signs of aging!

Or maybe the headline was just really badly written and I got the wrong impression.

This is an artist’s impression of what the woman might have looked like. I wonder why they made her skin so dark. The neanderthals lived in Europe—wouldn’t that mean their skin color would be lighter? The reason modern Europeans lost their pigmentation was so that they could get adequate vitamin D through sun exposure. Melanin absorbs UV light, so lighter people survived better than darker people in the north.

Hmm.

It could be that he saved the taxpayers the cost of trial and incarceration.

Or it could be that he was innocent but could not handle the stress of the accusation and legal action.

We’ll probably never know.

Well, there is one thing we can say for Florida Man. He sure is creative. We never know what his next antics will be.

I know a way to use much less refrigeration...food irradiation.

That changes the chemical structure of the food, not always in ways that are palatable. And once an irradiated package is opened, it still needs refrigeration, just like canned food does once opened.