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Covid-19 vaccine

Will you get the vaccine?

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    Votes: 500 67.1%
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mRNA vaccine inventor speaks out on 'Tucker' after YouTube deletes video of him discussing risks
'The government is not being transparent with us about what those risks are,' said Dr. Robert Malone

https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-mrna-vaccine-inventor,


Feel free to claim he isn't credible now for going on fox news despite inventing the injection your taking.
Firstly, he is not the inventor of mRNA vaccines https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/library/3aa2eefd. Secondly, I wont claim he isnt credible, but one example of a single video from a single scientist being taken down on a single platform is not really enough to claim that every scientist who doesnt agree with the government is being censored.
 

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Firstly, he is not the inventor of mRNA vaccines https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/library/3aa2eefd. Secondly, I wont claim he isnt credible, but one example of a single video from a single scientist being taken down on a single platform is not really enough to claim that every scientist who doesnt agree with the government is being censored.

Cool, how many examples do you need before you stop trying to convince me that censorship of dissenting experts isn't taking place.

I am not looking to be endlessly trolled with moving goal posts of what constitutes censorship.

So lets get a number here, not a subjective platitude.
 
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Cool, how many examples do you need before you stop trying to convince me that censorship of dissenting experts isn't taking place.
I never said that, dont put words in my mouth. You made a claim that EVERY scientist who doesnt agree with ' the narrative' is censored. As evidence you provided a single example of one platform removing a video from one scientist. I never told you that no dissenting experts were censored, but I do absolutely call bullshit on the idea that theres widespread dissent among experts but ALL of them are censored to keep the public from knowing.

To prove widespread censorship youd need more than individual examples. If there really are a statistically relevant number of dissenting scientists and every single one is being censored then thats in the thousands if not tens of thousands of examples, and im sure there would be significant info about it online, unless every website is working together to remove all evidence.
 
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Wasn't it a Woman that started working on RNA back like in the 80-90s and not some old quack doctor?

EDIT: I didn't see Ibcap had posted a debunking and I were right about the woman. I just remember reading about it last year in a Swedish Newspaper.
 
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I never said that, dont put words in my mouth. You made a claim that EVERY scientist who doesnt agree with ' the narrative' is censored. As evidence you provided a single example of one platform removing a video from one scientist. I never told you that no dissenting experts were censored, but I do absolutely call bullshit on the idea that theres widespread dissent among experts but ALL of them are censored to keep the public from knowing.

To prove widespread censorship youd need more than individual examples. If there really are a statistically relevant number of dissenting scientists and every single one is being censored then thats in the thousands if not tens of thousands of examples, and im sure there would be significant info about it online, unless every website is working together to remove all evidence.


Gotcha, you don't want to quantify what constitutes censorship so you can apply whatever suits your narrative at the moment.

So I'll just accept whatever definition of Censorship your willing to admit too and state emphatically whatever level you are agreeing to is to much to have any credibility as far as I am concerned.

Wasn't it a Woman that started working on RNA back like in the 80-90s and not some old quack doctor?

Dr. Malone is the inventor of mRNA vaccines (and DNA vaccines). He also discovered lipid mediated and naked RNA transfection technologies.

It all started when he was at the Salk Institute in 1987 and 1988. There, he pioneered in-vitro RNA transfection and also in-vivo RNA transfection (in frog embryos, as well as mice).

This resulted in his seminal paper: Cationic liposome-mediated RNA transfection RW Malone, PL Felgner, IM Verma. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 86 (16), 6077-6081

His filed patent and disclosures from the Salk included in-vivo RNA transfection and also methods for mRNA stabilization - now being claimed as invented by others. These are available for review.
 

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Dr. Malone is the inventor of mRNA vaccines (and DNA vaccines). He also discovered lipid mediated and naked RNA transfection technologies.

It all started when he was at the Salk Institute in 1987 and 1988. There, he pioneered in-vitro RNA transfection and also in-vivo RNA transfection (in frog embryos, as well as mice).

This resulted in his seminal paper: Cationic liposome-mediated RNA transfection RW Malone, PL Felgner, IM Verma. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 86 (16), 6077-6081

His filed patent and disclosures from the Salk included in-vivo RNA transfection and also methods for mRNA stabilization - now being claimed as invented by others. These are available for review.
I've read up about it. But apparently it's not enough to be the "inventor" apparently. Also he wasn't alone on this paper. So it's kind of false to claim he was the sole person.

Sadly for me how he speaks is to sound bigger than he really is. He just found a theory, a method but didn't finish it until the Hungarian doctor came in to the picture it seems.
 

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Not really, as they made under a rush. Aa revision that can protect against the deltas are coming probably.
No, that have been debunked. They been working on mRNA vaccines since the 2000's. It's not a new tech but wow research goes fast when a lot of money, time and resources all focus on one goal right?
 

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I've read up about it. But apparently it's not enough to be the "inventor" apparently. Also he wasn't alone on this paper. So it's kind of false to claim he was the sole person.

Sadly for me how he speaks is to sound bigger than he really is. He just found a theory, a method but didn't finish it until the Hungarian doctor came in to the picture it seems.

Minutia aside without the entire Edison/Tesla Jobs/Woz debate, he's more qualified to be discussing it than the Youtube trolls censoring him discussing side effects on a podcast.
 

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Minutia aside without the entire Edison/Tesla Jobs/Woz debate, he's more qualified to be discussing it than the Youtube trolls censoring him discussing side effects on a podcast.
A lot of scientific people have however debunked his claims. So Youtube is just doing their job in removing misinformation imho.
Call it censorship all you want but Youtube isn't a public company. YouTube can tomorrow decide that all Gardinring on their platform should be removed and so they can do it, if they so wished.
 

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A lot of scientific people have however debunked his claims. So Youtube is just doing their job in removing misinformation imho.
Call it censorship all you want but Youtube isn't a public company. YouTube can tomorrow decide that all Gardinring on their platform should be removed and so they can do it, if they so wished.

Censorship is not limited to what you deem as "Misinformation" it is a matter of public record Facebook issued a memo that they would censor true provable statements if it was deemed to promote vaccine hesitancy.

There is no qualifier in these censorship models that it has to be untrue.
 

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Sadly i do believe that a more dominant mutation will come out in the upcoming months due to the selfish people who are putting others at risk because they refuse to take the vaccine causing the virus to go into a harder mutation.

If we all just cooperated from the beginning and not listening to all the conspiracies things that come forth from every disaster events, we might be in a very different position than we are now. People are just too selfish and think that the "Goverment" wants to murder them all. If the Goverment trully wanted to eradicate as many humans as possible, believe me we wouldn't all be here, they could just release a manufactered deadly virus into the air untreceable and we all would fall like domino stones. There are many ways that could take many people out if they wanted. Like others have said, its selfish not to take the vaccine, as it meant to stop the virus but instead it will mutate by all the naysayers that in the end will bring only more hurt than good.
Yes, an argument I always see here is that young people have a high chance of survival so they don't need the vaccine.

But viruses mutate. And young people can pass it among each other allowing for more deadly strains of the virus to mutate to ones where our vaccines have less of an effect against.

It's not just for young people to fight off. It's to kill off the virus quickly so that less of the deadly mutations can happen.
 
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"They" lol, there is just as many all-natural crazy anti-vaxxers on the left.
false equivalency. There isn't. On the "left" (democrats) none of them, not a single major member is anti vaxxer. On the the right, not only does it have multiple members pushing anti vaxx rhetoric, but also too should I add, that conspiracy theorists tend to believe in multiple conspiracy's at once. And it just so happens the right has a fuck ton of conspiracy's.
 
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Comrade, just stop. You're literally citing a study from a whole different panic. This doesn't scale to the present day, and those 2014 numbers are gathered from even further back. A lot can change in a decade, particularly when a pandemic gets politicized, and honestly hitting LA in particular feels a lot like cherry-picking. In the present world with Alex Jones and Mike Adams and Steven Crowder literally hyping "all natural" products to make your brain stronger and your libido wilder, it is a bit telling how those trends shifted.
The contention made was that anti-vax rhetoric is uniquely right wing. It's clearly not, as evidenced by previous vaccine grief.
 

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The only ones that claimed that were peeps like jim who want to victimise themselves by putting those words into others' mouths though, so even the claim itself is baseless and can be disregarded without need for any kind of proof. That has been my point for 2 pages now.
 

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I'm not convinced that even 100% vaccination rate can eradicate the virus. We need to give big pharma billion-dollar contracts so they can repackage old molecules and sell them as new treatments. The only way forward is new patents.
 

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broadly, but not only, and that's been the point from the beginning, I'm not understanding why such a fuss when the problem is the rhetoric itself and not where it comes from.
 

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But you have to admit that COVID-19 anti-vax rhetoric is broadly right-wing.
I don't know that for a fact - I would have to check the party line breakdown of vaccine hesitancy. If you have that statistic, I'd love to look into it. You're probably right, I'm not even going to contest that. My point, which was perhaps lost on some, was that "mistrusting vaccines" is not a uniquely right wing phenomenon - it affects both sides of the political spectrum. It would also be unfair not to mention that a lot of the right wing opposition is not against the vaccine per se, but rather against growing government overreach in attempting to distribute it. Now there are mandates on the table, and that doesn't fly well with the conservative-minded or the more libertarian crowds. I know a good handful of people who refuse to take a jab not because they don't think it will work - they know it would. Rather, they performed their risk versus reward calculation and, based on their risk of contracting the disease or suffering any consequences from it, they came to the conclusion that it's not worth the hassle (this is primarily based on age). I also know some who refuse to take it *because* it's constantly shoved in their faces, so they're acting entirely out of spite. The previous anti-vaxx debacle was more so about the completely benign preservatives rather than any of that stuff. Remember when affluent mothers would organise "chicken pox parties" to immunise their kids? I remember, and I also remember similar events during the beginning of the COVID pandemic when the lethality of the virus wasn't fully explored yet - tremendously irresponsible and dangerous doesn't even begin to describe it. I wonder how many people have died due to such a "natural" approach towards the pandemic. Rocks are natural too, but I wouldn't recommend eating them to aid in digestion issues - I presume they're rough on the way out. In any case, I thought avoiding the *whopping cough* vaccine was silly at the time and I think avoiding the COVID one is equally, if not more silly.
 
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