There’s also criticism of the Bryant and Lawrie paper.
What’s an actual criticism of that paper from that article?
That meta-studies are garbage-in-garbage-out? That’s weak at best, the author seems to have spent no time in spot checking any of the papers included to check whether this actually happened.
The Japanese data is at the center of Byram Bridle’s claims, which is systematically debunked …
… by a nameless “Concerned Scientist”. I don’t want to play ranking authorities, but it’s obvious someone is mad at Bridle enough to steal his name to put up that website.
It’s hard to read that website assuming good faith, at least Bridle seems courageous enough to argue his points in the open under his own name, like any “Scientist” should do, especially “Concerned” ones.
Regarding the spike protein toxicity, my understanding is that the claim is a bit more nuanced.
A recent tweet from Malone says:
The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is cytotoxic. That is a fact. Who says so? Multiple peer reviewed references. The Salk Institute.
It is the responsibility of the vaccine developers to demonstrate that their expressed version is not toxic.
Show us.
And then links to this Salk article.
Basically claiming that we know SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is cytotoxic and unless proven otherwise it’s fair to assume the version expressed by vaccines is similarly cytotoxic.
All the “fact-checker” linked from that website are “we have no evidence that [...]”, and this is very much a case in which absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I’ve seen this paper used over, and over, and over by antivaxxers. But a coauthor of that paper, who was horrified about how it was being used, says:
Congrats to @OgataAlana on this important study. Many asked how much spike protein gets into circulation after vaccination. Turns out to average ~30-40 pg/mL for a few days then disappears. FYI: This is ~100,000x less than used in our paper (4 ug/mL). https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar
I challenge anyone to name any vaccine or protein (or whatever) that is safe at the normal dosage and ALSO safe at a dose 10,000x or 100,000x higher. An extreme dose being hazardous is not surprising. It logically follows that if an extreme dose is harmful, it doesn’t mean a dose 100,000x lower is harmful.
What’s an actual criticism of that paper from that article? That meta-studies are garbage-in-garbage-out? That’s weak at best, the author seems to have spent no time in spot checking any of the papers included to check whether this actually happened.
… by a nameless “Concerned Scientist”. I don’t want to play ranking authorities, but it’s obvious someone is mad at Bridle enough to steal his name to put up that website. It’s hard to read that website assuming good faith, at least Bridle seems courageous enough to argue his points in the open under his own name, like any “Scientist” should do, especially “Concerned” ones.
Regarding the spike protein toxicity, my understanding is that the claim is a bit more nuanced. A recent tweet from Malone says:
And then links to this Salk article.
Basically claiming that we know SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is cytotoxic and unless proven otherwise it’s fair to assume the version expressed by vaccines is similarly cytotoxic.
All the “fact-checker” linked from that website are “we have no evidence that [...]”, and this is very much a case in which absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I’ve seen this paper used over, and over, and over by antivaxxers. But a coauthor of that paper, who was horrified about how it was being used, says:
I challenge anyone to name any vaccine or protein (or whatever) that is safe at the normal dosage and ALSO safe at a dose 10,000x or 100,000x higher. An extreme dose being hazardous is not surprising. It logically follows that if an extreme dose is harmful, it doesn’t mean a dose 100,000x lower is harmful.