Calling vaccines gene therapy is like calling milk “pus” or saying you shouldn’t use a microwave because it has “radiation”.
It’s an appeal to an emotional response to a word. It’s one of the most annoying argumentative tactics.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.15.440089v2....
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2032195
To be clear: I’m not arguing your later point. The questions of oversight and liability are very important and under-discussed.
But you do sound like a crackpot with how many billions of dollars have gone into the research, and how few published reactions have occurred.
For COVID, there's multiple vaccines, some of which include the spike and some include the whole thing. The most effective ones only include the spike, although of course that doesn't mean it's ideal.