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The Chinese-language press article shared as a screenshot on Facebook here via a user from Singapore on September 5, 2022.
At first glance, it appears to have been taken from the September 3, 2022 edition of Shin Min Daily News, a Singaporean evening newspaper.
The title of the article reads: “mRNA vaccines spark debate again; [incites] concern that this will cause herbal immunity to lose effect. “
“Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that mRNA vaccines damage humans’ natural immunity. This means that the coverage of the human body is greatly reduced, which weakens the toughest weapons that can be had against humans against diseases. says the first paragraph of the alleged report.
Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, such as the Covid-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer and BioNTech and vaccines produced by Moderna, work by delivering human cells to produce a coronavirus surface protein, which simulates infection and trains the immune formula when it encounters the genuine virus.
The report is based on an article published in the June 2022 factor of the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, titled “Innate immunosuppression via SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines: the role of G-quadruples, exosomes, and microRNAs. “
Screenshot of misleading Facebook taken on October 26, 2022
The same symbol shared in Singapore on Facebook and Telegram along with a similar claim, as well as on Facebook through users in Malaysia and Taiwan.
The messages have already been verified through Hong Kong Factcheck Lab here.
A keyword search on the Shin Min Daily News online page did not find any articles matching the report illustrated in the fake messages, but a record of the newspaper article was filed here via PressReader.
Other keyword searches on Google revealed that the name and text of the report matched an article published in Sing Tao Daily, a Hong Kong newspaper, and its Canadian counterpart.
A similar report was also published through a Taiwanese data platform, all based on the paper published in Food and Chemical Toxicology.
The document, however, reaffirms claims in the past denied through AFP that covid-19 vaccines damage the human body’s immune formula (here, here and here) and the spike proteins of mRNA vaccines (here, here and here).
Several experts questioned the document’s findings and called for its withdrawal.
The paper, billed as a summary of “the existing literature on mRNA and its effects on molecular biology in human cells,” references a number of other clinical papers that have not yet been peer-reviewed.
It claims that covid-19 mRNA vaccines herald sustained production of poisonous proteins, which in turn affect the body’s ability to repair itself and can “potentially lead to an increased threat of infectious diseases and cancer. “
But fitness experts at Meedan, an organization that fights misinformation about fitness, told AFP on October 21: “There is no clinical evidence to recommend that the spike proteins created in our bodies from covid-19 vaccines are poisonous or harmful. “
“However, COVID-19 vaccines are relatively new. Therefore, the long-term side effects and the reason for any side effects are not yet fully known. Vaccines are monitored for any protection issues or observed patterns that may threaten human well-being. “being. “
He added to AFP via email on Oct. 22, 2022 that the study “is not a study that has been done systematically and is not used to make clinical extrapolations or policy decisions. “
Several experts have called for the article to be removed because of what they claim are misinterpretations by the paper’s authors.
A letter to the editor of the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology says, “We recommend that the article be withdrawn because careful investigation of the literature provided indicates profound errors in subjects’ interpretations and conclusions about the negative effect SARS vaccination has. “CoV-2 may have immunity. “
The letter adds: “The authors rely on hypothetical physiological alterations induced by vaccination. For example, they mention a imaginable accumulation in the threat of various cancers that has never been published to date, while for cancer patients, vaccination is still highly recommended.
“No causal dating can be established between the biological mechanisms described and the assumptions of mRNA vaccines in this paper. “
The same experts wrote an article here, which was published in the journal Stem Cell Reviews and Reports on October 26, explaining in more detail why the disputed article is problematic and should be deleted.
The journal that published the study also criticized the publication of the article through members of the medical network here, here and here.
The leader of the disputed paper is Stephanie Seneff, a principal investigator at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Peter McCullough, a cardiologist from the US state of Texas, who made misleading claims about covid-19 vaccines debunked via AFP here, here, here, here and here, is also indexed as an author.