Molecular Biologist & Cancer Geneticist Speaks On DNA Contamination In COVID Vaccines
There is still a need for an honest and detailed inquiry into the safety of COVID vaccines.
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In April of this year, genomics expert Kevin McKernan claimed to have discovered DNA contamination in vials of Pfizer and Moderna’s bivalent booster shots. He published his findings in a pre-print.
In particular, he claimed to have found a gene sequence originating from the simian virus 40 (SV40).
DNA contaminated vaccines do have the potential to cause harm. More on this below.
As with any type of scholarly publication that calls into question the safety of COVID vaccines, it was met with harsh criticism by a number of Fact Checking organizations, like Health Feedback.
The first criticism from Health Feedback was that the vials tested were of “unknown provenance” and the authors explained that the vials had been sent to them “anonymously in the mail without cold packs” but that the vials were “unopened.”
If this is true, the vials could have been anything but a COVID vaccine.
Furthermore, there is a criterion for safe levels of DNA contamination in vaccines. Health Feedback argues that if there were unsafe levels of DNA contamination in COVID shots, the vaccines wouldn’t be approved.
Michael Imperiale, a professor at the University of Michigan who studies DNA tumour viruses told Health Feedback that,
“…the results are far from establishing that DNA contamination of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines is widespread. “Since this article has not been peer reviewed, we don’t know if there was truly significant DNA contamination.”
Fact Checkers and those who regulate information claim that there is no plausible mechanism for COVID-19 mRNA vaccines to alter DNA and that there is no evidence to date that SV40 causes cancer in humans.
But things get more interesting.
During this controversy, USC professor Phillip Buckhaults, Ph.D., an experienced molecular biologist and cancer geneticist who has extensive experience with next-gen sequencing applications for global gene expression analysis and gene mutation detection, was watching.
He was watching the research of McKernan. Buckhaults was also one of the academics who dismissed the findings of McKernan as a “conspiracy theory.”
So he decided to also run his own testing on COVID mRNA vials. Buckhaults found billions of tiny DNA fragments in Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine, and recently testified about it before a South Carolina Senate hearing.
In an interview with investigative journalist Maryanne Demasi, Buckhaults explains,
“I didn't have any preconceived notions about there should be something bad in the vaccine, I'm not anti-vaccine, I've actually been vaccinated. And I recommended it to everyone in my family and everybody I care about, but I have been mindful of the fact that there seems to be some reports of vaccine injury out there and I would like to know what the reason is.”
He went on to emphasize,
“Kevin McKernan was right, this plasmid is present in the vaccine. I proved that there is NOT SV40 full virus, but there is plasmid DNA. And that plasmid does have a little piece of SV40 in it.”
Buckhaults, however, explained that yes, there is DNA contaminating the vaccine, but that he was able to put a stop to rumours about the SV40 virus being in the vaccine, and “that it’s going to give everybody cancer because that’s not true.”
“There's just a piece of SV40 promoter in the vaccine. And that's what people were seizing on, people were saying there’s a monkey virus, we're all going to turn into monkeys or get cancers next week or something. And, and I did my due diligence to tamp down that kind of fear - which was my original purpose.”
That being said, Buckhaults also appeared to be concerned about the potential for damage.
“There's a chance that this DNA does nothing, but because I have a background in cancer genetics and cancer biology, somatic mutations are my expertise. And I think that there is a reasonable chance that if you inject pieces of DNA that are wrapped up in this transfection particle – the lipid nanoparticles - there is a reasonable chance that some of this is going to get into cells, and then integrate into the genome of cells. I think we should check and find out.”
Also, the limits and ‘safe’ amounts of residual DNA allowed for in vaccines set by regulatory agencies were before lipid nanoparticles existed.
“It was back when they were just injecting proteins and or attenuated viruses that they made in CHO cells and a little bit of DNA comes along for the ride, but it's naked DNA. Right? And they've done studies where they inject gobs of naked DNA into mice and never see any problems. But this isn’t naked DNA. This is different and that's what gives me pause that may be the regulatory limit is just not relevant to mRNA vaccines that have lipid-nanoparticles or LNPs, transporting the genetic material to the inside of cells.
The LNPs facilitate getting the DNA inside the cell - just inside the cell membrane. But once it's in the cytoplasm, bits of DNA go to the nucleus just by random chance. And that would happen no matter what the delivery mechanism was. Once the LNPs fuse with the membrane of cells and dump their cargo into the cytoplasm, they’ve done their job.”
The biggest concern seems to be that, according to Buckhaults, DNA can travel to the nucleus and get into the genome.
He explains,
“We take pieces of naked DNA, put them in lipofectamine which is a solution that delivers genetic material into cells, and by magic, some of the pieces integrate into the cellular DNA, and permanently modified the cells. I've been doing this since I was a graduate student, so I know that this happens. The only question is, what is the frequency of this happening across a vaccinated population? And is that frequency high enough that we should worry about it? Or is it low enough that the good that comes from the vaccine far outweighs the risk? We just don't know what the frequency of genome modification is.”
“People will disagree on the magnitude of the risk. We do not yet know if it means anything or not. There's a chance that this DNA does nothing, but because I have a background in cancer genetics and cancer biology, somatic mutations are my expertise. And I think that there is a reasonable chance that if you inject pieces of DNA that are wrapped up in this transfection particle – the lipid nanoparticles - there is a reasonable chance that some of this is going to get into cells, and then integrate into the genome of cells. I think we should check and find out.”
Refreshing Dialogue
It was refreshing to hear Buckhaults state that he has been “mindful of the fact that there seems to be some reports of vaccine injury out there and I would like to know what the reason is.”
There are multiple concerns that have been brought up by many renowned academics in the field. This was a common theme throughout the pandemic, yet these vaccine experts, scientists, and doctors across the globe were referred to as “anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists.”
As far as vaccine injury reports, it’s really hard to put a number on it because we haven’t had proper surveillance systems in place. That being said, of the vaccine injury reporting systems that we do have in place, we have seen something that has been unprecedented, a record of injury reports.
In a 2022 German TV interview, Senior Editor at the British Medical Journal Dr. Peter Doshi explained that:
“Our legacy media has not done a good job in providing balanced coverage about the vaccines" and that "we're not getting the information we need to make better choices and to have a more informed understanding of risk and benefit."
There are still so many unanswered questions, and it’s highly unlikely that detailed and proper investigations into matters such as the ones discussed in this article will ever take place.
According to the FDA, the answer always seems to be the same. COVID vaccines are safe, effective and useful.
“The FDA is confident in the quality, safety, and effectiveness of these vaccines. The agency’s benefit-risk assessment and ongoing safety surveillance demonstrates that the benefits of their use outweigh their risks. “
I obviously disagree.
As you wrote, i think this is the key to where approaching the vaxx injury issue is at present: "it’s highly unlikely that detailed and proper investigations into matters such as the ones discussed in this article will ever take place." This has been the pattern all along with the vaxx and the plandemic in general: scientists, even ones who are pioneers in their field like Luc Montagnier and Robert Malone -- come out into the public spotlight with very well reasoned concerns, ones that can't be dismissed if you know the science. They make their case, and by doing so they put their esteemed reputation on the line. If they persist in challenging the status quo, the establishment takes notice and engages its discreditation process, attacking them not only on their science, but on all kinds of unrelated aspects, including their academic standing and their character. There now exists an impromptu attack squad of blinkered scientists and pundits with a dedicated following on social media, who have been well versed on the drill, and who collectively proceed to ‘mock-up’ the image that is to overlay this whistelblower and of which they will never be able to rid themselves, while they futilely still try to make the science stand on its own. Then this mocked-up image of a disinformation-peddler is carried on the shoulders of average people talking to the neighbours, because the fear has been acquired at a collective level and the instilled pattern also needs to be protected at the collective level.
However if this discreditation process itself is ever attempted to be brought to light, there is a ready device for that too requiring only the appropriate trigger term to be dropped -- you know the one -- which has been uploaded into the social subconscious of humanity by the CIA, like the code-word in a 60's spy thriller for remotely activating the Manchurian Candidate -- and much like the movie, the programmed action, is to eliminate the threat from the social and political sphere of influence.
Of course using normal logic to try to resolve this dilemma is bound for failure and if you do this in the mainstream forum you are set to never be given another chance again.
The problem may be more fruitfully approached by looking at what was related by Joseph Heller in his book, Catch-22, where circular logic is instilled into soldiers' consciousness by the military command, which is then prevented from being questioned and recognized by proper logic through the general trauma of war and its inevitability of death the longer you play the game. So the trauma of seeing death around you, and knowing you are bound to be next at some point, keeps you from questioning the illusion of "the Fix" perpetrated by the command -- one of just doing the next mission and you will then be free. But even though this is just a ploy to keep you in the game, it's also one which you desperately need to believe yourself, as the true way out -- where the instilled control pattern of circular logic, the Catch-22, keeps you believing there is no other way to avoid death. The Catch-22 is basically the deal with the Devil you have made and he is keeping you to it.
Has a similar control program been applied to the vaxx through the fear that was initially generated when the coronavirus was first played with so much drama and daily numbers of cases on TV (making people believe they could be next) while isolating everyone from normal contact, just like mind control experts keep their subjects isolated and in fear of the unknown ? So now that fear-based pattern still exists in people's psyche and keeps them from questioning anything to do with the vaxx -- and this pattern has been neatly linked with the trigger term "conspiracy theory" to quickly activate it, and have people unconsciously work in concert -- to bring down any new threats to the deal they have made at their soul level for more time in this life.
So, the lipid lnanoparticle delivers the cargo into the cell which includes a plasmid SV40, or fragment of DNA, which sometimes based on what the scientist said incorporates into the genome. It may not have any effect, but we do not know. So, that is why taking an experimental DNA shot is risky, we don't know how insidious this could be. Could incorporation into the cell's genome trigger cancers? We don't know, but there is an uptick in cancers since the shot mandates. Why did the scientist take the shot himself, knowing it was experimental and had mRNA in it? And, now he is realizing there are billions of SV40 fragments entering the body. He could have used anti-virals and iodine irrigation as protection. WIth all his intelligence he made an unwise decision, and that is scary that our scientists and doctors can be so foolish. If they are true scientists they should be figuring out what is really going on at a genetic level with these shots. He is now doing research, but so many more need to put selfish concerns aside and help humanity. Afterall, their laissez faire attitude has contributed to this disaster.