State’s politically appointed surgeon general claims vaccines can contaminate human DNA but experts say comment has no merit
An assertion by Florida’s politically appointed surgeon general that Covid-19 vaccines can contaminate human DNA has been dismissed as “scientific nonsense” by public health experts, who say he is putting lives at risk by wanting to block distribution.
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“We’ve seen this pattern from Dr Ladapo that every few months he raises some new concern and it quickly gets debunked,” he told the Washington Post, referring to an erroneous claim in September that the latest release of Covid boosters had not been tested on humans.
“This idea of DNA fragments, it’s scientific nonsense. People who understand how these vaccines are made and administered understand that there is no risk here.”
Dr David Gorski, professor of surgery and oncology at Wayne State University and managing editor of Science-Based Medicine, which debunks misinformation in medicine, told the newspaper: “I’ve never seen a state health authority parrot anti-vaccine disinformation as a justification for stopping the use of a vaccine that has saved so many lives before.”
I’m pretty sure this is just plain nonsense. There’s no need for the ‘scientific’ qualifier.
Yeah. Should have said “pseudo-scientific”
As opposed to the virus itself, which is might be DNA (or RNA), which breach the cell boundary, which highjack the DNA-replicating parts of the cell to do what the bacteria does in the description IHeartBadCode writes, using the same enzymes to do whatever it’s DNA code has randomly come up with.
[/S] Clearly the virus is a much safer bet!
Coronaviruses have no DNA, they use RNA, but point taken.
Coronaviruses are RNA, but there are many DNA viruses: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_virus
Thanks! I updated my comment.
If I remember correctly from bio-classes, back in the day, Virus could be either, although not enough to form a complete cell. Granted, it has been almost 30 years since those classes, but the wiki seems to agree.
So many levels of stupidity. Lets take as read that Lapado is not that stupid that doesn’t actually understand how the vaccine is created and works. What we have is a die hard republican looking for his own path to fame and wealth. The great tragedy is that he is aware that republicans kill black people preferentially. In the UK his medical registration would be suspended and almost certainly removed following investigation. His defended would be only to provide the scientific evidence to support his assertions or to plead ignorance. Neither would keep him on the medical register. How does it work in the US?
In about 12 US states he would also lose his license.
“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”
That’s not how it works with medication, though.
Look guys, the reptilian is just concerned about GMOs in his food, okay?
Conspiracy theories with zero charisma are just conspiracy theories. Desantis failed to watch Trump closely. Make it entertaining. Put on a show. The substance doesn’t actually matter.
Mixing science and medicine with politics is scary.
