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‘Scientific nonsense’: experts dismiss Florida official’s Covid vaccine remarks (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure this is just plain nonsense. There's no need for the 'scientific' qualifier.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

I assume it was meant in the sense of "sciency-sounding nonsense" rather than "nonsense that is scientific".

[–] prole 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah. Should have said "pseudo-scientific"