Does Noakes not realize that this is one of the hoariest, stupidest antivax arguments there is? I was dealing with it two decades ago.https://twitter.com/AlastairMcA30/status/1416643493502484489 …
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So by your definition is the definition in the dictionary wrong? Does the mRNA-based 'vaccine' not confer immunity? Does it not lead to the production of antibodies? Is it not achieving its purpose of acting as an 'antigen' which is exactly what's in the definition?
It's a fine distinction. RNA is not the antigen (although it may well have adjuvant function); it simply codes for the antigen that is in turn expressed transiently by your own cells and then recognized. It is in that way unlike other vaccines, but in no sense a "gene therapy."
You do know, don't you, that several forms of RNA, including mRNA, are immunogenic, right? The immunogenicity of RNA was one problem that had to be overcome to develop mRNA-based vaccines.
So what you’re saying is that the combination of the mRNA, lipid coat etc constitute a combination which provoke an immune response. Doesn’t that make... this a vaccine? Does each component have to operate separately as a vaccine before the whole is a vaccine?
On this one Tim is defo offside.
What do you think destroys it? it's unstable because it gets broken down so fast, either by intracellular or extracellular protective mechanisms (i.e. immune function).
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