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1/ Met Van Egmond heb ik een email-uitwisseling gehad. Net als de andere regeringsexperts wist ze NIET dat al onze cellen duizenden genen voor reverse transcriptase en integrase bezitten, die virusachtige RNA moleculen in het DNA kunnen integreren.

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2/ Ondertussen weten de mensen die mij volgen hoe dat gaat:



Ik heb nog uitgebreidere informatie naar Van Egmond gestuurd. In eerste instantie reageerde ze niet, maar 2 weken later, nadat ik haar had herinnert, schreef ze...
3/ ...dat ze advies had gevraagd van enkele collega’s die meer expertise hebben in dit onderwerp. En dat er consensus is, dat dit weliswaar een theoretische mogelijkheid is, maar dat dit enigszins vergezocht is en er geen enkele aanwijzing is dat dit zou spelen bij RNA vaccins.
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Snopes' "fact checkers" are wrong about mRNA vaccins:

snopes.com/fact-check/mrn…

Snopes, who claims to do fact checking, writes:

"No, mRNA COVID vaccines do not alter your DNA".

Snopes did not even begin to check the science facts.
The science facts are that RNA vaccins can potentially change your DNA. To understand how, we have to go a bit into genomics. Our genome contains about 50-60 thousand genes (~20 thousand protein-coding genes, the rest RNA genes). Together they make up about 25% of the genome.
In addition to that, our genome contains about 50% socalled transposable and transposed elements (TEs), including ERVs and LINEs. The latter function, among other things, as (epi)genetic switches to control when genetic programs are switched on and off.
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