Assistant Professor at TU Darmstadt. Fan of (native) mass spectrometry and (top-down) proteomics. All-round science geek. Tweets are my opinions, and not advice
Mar 13, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Public Service Announcement: #CovidVaccines will not cause blood clotting disorders
Shocking, I know. You can pretty much stop reading now, but below are a few utterly pointless tweets refuting some utterly pointless scaremongering
There’s another ‘open letter’ circulating. I wasn’t going to address it and give it oxygen, but @BallouxFrancois convinced me it was worth it. Not linking it though. It’s pseudo-intellectual drivel in 7 points, with a grating repetition of ‘if such evidence is not available...’
Feb 26, 2021 • 54 tweets • 16 min read
Thread:
Basic Vaccine Explainer or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Jab
This one’s going to be a long read with a decent chance of me going off on tangents/rants, so I recommend you grab yourself a cup of coffee/tea and get comfy
I wrote most of this as a series of DMs to someone with some vax anxiety recently. Sharing now (with permission) in case it’s still useful to anyone. Thought it was all fairly well known by now, but I’ve been hearing more “gene therapy” and “not a vaccine” nonsense again lately
Dec 4, 2020 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Thread: mRNA vaccines will not affect your fertility. A rumour was started recently, and it has people worried. Unlike most anti-vax nonsense, these guys actually wrote a petition to the @EMA_News to stop life-saving trials. I read it. Here’s the breakdown of their claims:
1) PCR isn’t reliable, so trial results are random false positives. Calling the odds of getting a 162/8 (Pfizer) or 185/11 (Moderna) split by chance astronomical, gives too much credit to astronomy. Don’t believe me? Flip a coin 170 times and try to get heads 162 times. I’ll wait
