The Claim:
An anti-vaccine environmental lawyer has taken suggestions that COVID spike proteins could affect DNA repair mechanisms and decided this means the vaccine causes cancer.
The Facts:
This article is very badly written and conceived.
While it claims that cancer rates have risen since the introduction of COVID vaccines, according to researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, cancer rates in people under 50 have been rising dramatically since 1990.
And while the leading causes of death in 2021 were heart disease and cancer (which he attributes to the vaccine, of course), the leading causes of death in 2020 were also heart disease and cancer. 2020 was, of course, before the vaccine even came out. Same in 2019. And in 2018. Cancer and heart disease kill a lot of Americans, likely due to our terrible eating habits and other factors not vaccine-related.
The study, which claims that the spike protein from the VIRUS (not the vaccine) impacted the DNA’s repair mechanism, contradicts previous studies which show the spike protein is found primarily outside the nucleus. Additionally, this study was performed in vitro, which can’t necessarily be translated to what happens in the body. And the study has been retracted.
It’s possible this environmental lawyer knows what he is doing by blurring the truth about heart disease and cancer and COVID and that, as with his work in Samoa, he doesn’t care about the people who listen to him.
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