(04-03-2025, 04:21 AM)LightAngel Wrote: Groundbreaking peer-reviewed evidence confirms Pfizer's mRNA vaccines contain bacterial plasmid DNA—including the potentially harmful SV40 viral element.
More scientists now calling for the suspension of mRNA shots and accountability due to this contamination. In this video, we break down the evidence, risks, and implications for public health.
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9tlqUjwAvg]
Fair warning, I am going to debunk this video and the paper behind it.
First thing, some science.
- Injecting DNA into a cell does not genetically modify that cell. Traditional vaccines containing attenuated or killed whole pathogens often contain that pathogen's DNA packaged up into it. Getting foreign DNA into a cell most usually kicks-off the immune processes that will ultimately destroy and remove that foreign DNA. That is how traditional vaccines work.
- The SV40 virus, a DNA virus, can be dangerous for humans and chimps, but the genomic promoter sequence , first identified in SV40 (and that exists in many other natural sources), is harmless and isn't the SV40 virus. A good real-world indicator is that no-one is suggesting that people injected with the mRNA immunizations are contracting SV40, because they just aren't. The paper and the vlogger keep saying that promoter sequence is dangerous, when we know from decades of experience, it is benign.
- To modify DNA, inserting sequences into the host cell's DNA, you require the presence of a reverse transcriptase enzyme, something pretty much only found in retroviruses. If you have a retrovirus as well as an injection containing DNA, then any immunization side effects are the least of your worries, because you have a retrovirus.
Now on to the paper:
Firstly, it is published by a known dubious publisher, who will apparently publish anything and claim peer review, if you pony up their publishing fee:
HELP! Is this journal a scam? First time publisher. - AskAcademia post on Reddit
The reviewing editor for the paper was James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, an ecologist - does that qualify him as a 'peer' for a paper about genomics and biochemistry?
Next, we will look at the authors:
Ulrike Kämmerer is an ObGyn (what would an ObGyn be doing publishing research papers in genomics and biochemistry?), but, in her role of professor at University Hospital Würzburg, she has published a suspiciously high number of papers (258 at last count). This could be because she gets paid by the number of papers she publishes, and so she puts her name on all her students papers (this also explains the widely disparate specialties covered in her papers). Also, I suspect that she publishes them all with the same publisher.
Ulrike Kämmerer- Researchgate
Verena Schulz does not appear to have any recognised credential, and is possibly a social media studies and marketing manageress, but I can't be sure due to her absence of qualifications.
Klaus Steger is a urologist at Justus Liebig University Giessen, and who also has an unusually high number of published papers (265). Interestingly, a large number of those papers also list Ulrike Kämmereras co-author.
Klaus Steger - ResearchGate
So, none of the authors are credentialled in either biochemistry or genomics (the subject matter of the paper).
The DNA contamination BS largely owes itself to Phillip Buckhaults appeared before a South Carolina state panel in September 13, 2023. The paper is just repeating an anti-vaxxer trope that has been thoroughly debunked for years.
The anachronistic nature of the paper is best indicated by the fact that they rarely mention the proper name of the immunization,
'Comirnaty', despite it having been named so for
three years prior to authorship. I suspect that this is a re-write of a previous paper that never went past peer review (I vaguely recall seeing a similar paper that is now withdrawn).
But there is so much in the paper that is just wrong. Probably the primary problem is that the fluorescent dye they used to identify the DNA, also binds to RNA and RNA fragments just as easily, so they were detecting RNA residue and calling it DNA.
Addressing misinformation about excessive DNA in the mRNA vaccines
Now on to the vlogger. He claims to be a geneticist but clearly doesn't know his stuff.
Can you help me debunk this YouTube channel 'Merogenomics' claims about covid vaccines?
And one look at the topics of the videos he presents identifies that he is clearly an anti-vaxxer and COVspiracy nut, rehashing all the previously debunked anti-vax and conspiracy topics, no matter how stupid. He talks about almost nothing else since the pandemic started.
Back in 1798, Edward Jenner took some scrapings from cowpox lesions, and injectyed it, DNA and all, directly into people to immunize them against smallpox. It has become the most successful vaccine in history. Over those last 227 years, no-one injected with cow DNA and cowpox DNA has ever turned into either a cow or a virus.