Read the website of the author of that garbage paper and decide for yourself whether you feel like it’s a good decision to broadcast it to a wider audience:
vaccines.net
> We are concerned that the current outbreak of COVID-19 is actually a bioweapon attack and may be linked to the US anthrax attack of 2001, which originated from the US army base Fort Detrick.
> The former FBI agent in charge of the US anthrax attack investigation, Richard Lambert, alleged that his superiors acted to inhibit his investigation and prematurely closed the case after it was determined the anthrax used for the attack came from Fort Detrick. This revelation (see this link) as well as Dr. Classen's first hand experience working 3 years at Dr. Tony Fauci's NIAID leads him to be more than concerned that there is a contingent in the US government that is not acting in the public interest regarding bioweapons. Classen notes NIAID received substantial funds for bioweapons research after the domestic anthrax attack . He considers this quite alarming given activities he observed at NIAID and the relationship he observed between people at NIAID and the nearby Fort Detrick.
For additional context, the author is JB Classen. From his Wikipedia page:
> A widely-reposted 2021 Facebook post claiming that the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 could cause prion diseases was based on a paper by Classen. The paper was published in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, whose publisher, Scivision Publishers, is included in Beall's list of publishers of predatory journals. Vincent Racaniello, professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University, described the claim as "completely wrong".
The abstract caught my attention and so I kept reading. The further I read, the less reputable the article came across.
The following quote from that paper reads a lot like typical anti-vax garbage:
“Many have raised the warning that the current epidemic of COVID-19 is actually the result of an bioweapons attack released in part by individuals in the United States government [10,11]. Such a theory is not far fetched given that the 2001 anthrax attack in the US originated at Fort Detrick, a US army bioweapon facility. Because the FBI’s anthrax investigation was closed against the advice of the lead FBI agent in the case, there are likely conspirators still working in the US government. In such a scenario the primary focus of stopping a bioweapons attack must be to apprehend the conspirators or the attacks will never cease. Approving a vaccine, utilizing novel RNA technology without extensive testing is extremely dangerous. The vaccine could be a bioweapon and even more dangerous than the original infection.”
I've dug around into this, and I'm certainly no more than an armchair biologist, but it seems highly unlikely to be a real risk. If spike proteins could mis-fold and become self-reproducing prions, this would have happened by now "in the wild" and it wouldn't depend on an mRNA vaccine to trigger the problem.
mikeyouse|4 years ago
vaccines.net
> We are concerned that the current outbreak of COVID-19 is actually a bioweapon attack and may be linked to the US anthrax attack of 2001, which originated from the US army base Fort Detrick.
> The former FBI agent in charge of the US anthrax attack investigation, Richard Lambert, alleged that his superiors acted to inhibit his investigation and prematurely closed the case after it was determined the anthrax used for the attack came from Fort Detrick. This revelation (see this link) as well as Dr. Classen's first hand experience working 3 years at Dr. Tony Fauci's NIAID leads him to be more than concerned that there is a contingent in the US government that is not acting in the public interest regarding bioweapons. Classen notes NIAID received substantial funds for bioweapons research after the domestic anthrax attack . He considers this quite alarming given activities he observed at NIAID and the relationship he observed between people at NIAID and the nearby Fort Detrick.
nefitty|4 years ago
> A widely-reposted 2021 Facebook post claiming that the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 could cause prion diseases was based on a paper by Classen. The paper was published in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, whose publisher, Scivision Publishers, is included in Beall's list of publishers of predatory journals. Vincent Racaniello, professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University, described the claim as "completely wrong".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Bart_Classen
hannasanarion|4 years ago
Calling something science doesn't make it so.
cyberlurker|4 years ago
The following quote from that paper reads a lot like typical anti-vax garbage:
“Many have raised the warning that the current epidemic of COVID-19 is actually the result of an bioweapons attack released in part by individuals in the United States government [10,11]. Such a theory is not far fetched given that the 2001 anthrax attack in the US originated at Fort Detrick, a US army bioweapon facility. Because the FBI’s anthrax investigation was closed against the advice of the lead FBI agent in the case, there are likely conspirators still working in the US government. In such a scenario the primary focus of stopping a bioweapons attack must be to apprehend the conspirators or the attacks will never cease. Approving a vaccine, utilizing novel RNA technology without extensive testing is extremely dangerous. The vaccine could be a bioweapon and even more dangerous than the original infection.”
jwalgenbach|4 years ago
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/31/fac...
elevaet|4 years ago
kstrauser|4 years ago