Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) Profile picture
Texas Medical Center (TMC) Professor-Vaccine Scientist-Author; Member, Philosophical Society of Texas and TAMEST; Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year 2022

Apr 15, 9 tweets

1/n Here’s a thread on why this is nonsense. I think it’s important to debunk bc increasingly the antivaccine activists and their rhetoric are trying to sound more like real science even though it’s fake.

2/n first of all, there’s no such thing as a “turbo cancer,” it’s a made up term from the wellness influencers to frighten you and make it easier to pedal, their supplements, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, fenbendazole, or whatever else they can purchase in bulk and jack up the price

3/n next, the lipid nanoparticles that introduce nucleic acid get past the cell membrane into the cytoplasm where mRNA attaches to ribosomes to make protein but to get it past the nuclear membrane is work, it requires electroporation

4/n which is why to this day we have no licensed DNA vaccines

5/n then even if some nucleic acid by whatever reason did happen to get into the nucleus, we have as part of our innate immune system, interferon inducible elements that block integration of foreign DNA into our genome

6/n otherwise each time we consumed a hamburger we would have cattle DNA in our genome and that just doesn’t happen

7/n meanwhile the specific statements about SV40 have been debunked by multiple investigations, I will provide some of them here, beginning with the CHOP vaccine education website chop.edu/vaccine-educat…

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