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Covid Vaccines: 5 Things An Actual Scientist Wants Anti-Vaxxers To Know
It’s fair to say that 2020 has been a bumper year for conspiracy theories.
The coronavirus crisis has breathed new life into nonsense-based movements such as QAnon and David Icke.
The recent flurry of positive news around vaccines has inevitably focused some of this misguided energy into the supposed harms and risks associated with inoculation, once again fuelling the anti-vax movement that began in the 1990s.
It was announced on Wednesday that the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has been approved for use in the UK and and will be made available from next week.
Britain becomes the first country in the world to have a “clinically authorised vaccine” to roll out, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.
Most of the concerns raised are old and already debunked news, repackaged for the social media age and propagated by non-experts.
So HuffPost asked an actual expert, UCL medicine cell biologist Dr Jennifer Rohn, to help debunk the 2020 version of a 1990s phenomenon...
1) Vaccines do not alter your DNA
One quirk of the coronavirus pandemic that absolutely no one saw coming is that many of the following conspiracy theories and falsehoods can be found being promoted on the Twitter feeds of various 1990s pop stars.
First up is Jim Corr of Irish folk group The Corrs, a guitarist with no medical or scientific qualifications whatsoever.
In a Twitter spat with a priest in Philadelphia, he claimed: ”The vaccine is a novel experimental RNA vaccine which will alter the very DNA of the recipient.”
With respect Father...
As I learned myself years ago... condemnation without proper investigation is the height of ignorance... it is worth researching further into his claims.
The vaccine is a novel experimental RNA vaccine which will alter the very DNA of the recipient.— Jim Corr (@Jimcorrsays) November 21, 2020
This is absolutely not true and there is not a single piece of evidence to back it up. In fact, it’s physically impossible.
Let’s start with a few key terms.
DNA is a...
