Please listen to the science of what she's saying. It's gene therapy!!
You brought up the YT video of Christina Parks's testimony before,
in a different thread, last September. I never bothered to watch the video back then because it seemed like a waste of time.
Today, I watched all ~9 minutes of it, and confirmed my earlier suspicion. First of all, except for her introductory statement at the very beginning, she never said anything at all about the Covid-19 vaccines being gene therapy. No evidence for it, and no evidence against it.
What's more, Dr. Parks is wrong or misleading about most everything she claimed about the vaccines. She made a big point that the vaccines didn't show any ability in their clinical trials to prevent transmission of Covid-19 from one individual to another. That's deliberately misleading because those trials were never designed to show that. It would be prohibitively expensive if those large clinical trials actually tested for disease transmission in 60,000 people, half of whom were actually immunized. The trials did very clearly show that the vaccinations prevented significantly fewer people, among some 30,000 people vs. 30,000 people who were not vaccinated, from getting Covid-19 symptoms, or from being hospitalized or dying. In addition, those trials did show that among the people who were infected, their viral load (as measured by the PCR method) was significantly lower than in infected people on the control arm of the study. That's the next best thing to showing reduced transmission. Dr. Parks is not stupid, I think she actually knows that.
Edit: I looked up published papers for a few clinical trials done for vaccines in the past. None of them tested for the vaccine's ability to stop or reduce disease transmission. Doing that on the large scale required for statistical significance is essentially impossible. Instead of working with public populations, it would take controlled conditions in laboratories, enormous funding, and many years to do that. The way the Covid-19 vaccine clinical trials were recently done, is the standard way vaccine clinical trials are done. Suggesting that the lack of testing for disease transmission is a flaw shows a naive unfamiliarity with how vaccine clinical trials, and clinical trials in general, are actually performed.
Dr. Parks went on to set up a false "Straw Man" argument about the Pertussis vaccine. She claimed that this vaccine does protect against whooping cough, but does not prevent infection by the Bordetella pertussis bacteria. That is technically correct, but is irrelevant and misleading.
- Whooping cough is a disease caused by the B. pertussis bacterium. Covid-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. There are few, if any, similarities between bacteria and viruses.
- The B. pertussis bacterium alone is harmless. It, however, secretes or sheds a number of toxic molecules (toxins) that directly cause whooping cough. Vaccines directed against these bacterial toxins are sufficient to prevent whooping cough in children.
- In Covid-19, the corona virus itself is the source of the harm.
So, claims that vaccines directed against whooping cough (the DPT vaccine) cannot prevent children from being infected are true, but that tells us nothing about the vaccines directed against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19.
There were other false or misleading arguments Parks made, but I think I've said enough to discredit that video. She was introduced with a bit of fanfare about her PhD degree from the U of Michigan. Now she teaches (biology?) at a private Christian Academy. I have to wonder why she isn't employed as a scientist, and does that have anything to do with her unscientific beliefs?
According to the National Human Genome Research Institute.
RNA:
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a molecule similar to DNA. Unlike DNA, RNA is single-stranded. An RNA strand has a backbone made of alternating sugar (ribose) and phosphate groups. Attached to each sugar is one of four bases--adenine (A), uracil (U), cytosine (C), or guanine (G). Different types of RNA exist in the cell: messenger RNA (mRNA), ribosomal RNA (rRNA), and transfer RNA (tRNA). More recently, some small RNAs have been found to be involved in regulating gene expression.
Messenger RNA (mRNA) is a single-stranded RNA molecule that is complementary to one of the DNA strands of a gene. The mRNA is an RNA version of the gene that leaves the cell nucleus and moves to the cytoplasm where proteins are made. During protein synthesis, an organelle called a ribosome moves along the mRNA, reads its base sequence, and uses the genetic code to translate each three-base triplet, or codon, into its corresponding amino acid.
You've demonstrated ability to cut & paste basic information about biological nucleic acids from the Human Genome Research Institute's web page.
Now that you've mastered that, read and understand this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy
I'll follow that with a quiz to see what you've learned. Here's a sample question to help you prepare: Describe briefly the differences and similarities between Gene Therapy and mRNA vaccines.
… No one should be forced to get experimental gene therapy just to get medical care.
None of the Covid-19 vaccines are gene therapy, in any sense of the phrase. Despite what you seem to fervently believe, you're wrong. I defy you to provide convincing evidence that any of these vaccines are gene therapy. I'll give you an A on the quiz if you can.
None of the vaccines approved for use in the USA are experimental drugs. They are fully approved by the FDA. Claiming they are experimental is false.
