Inventor of mRNA and DNA vaccines permanently suspended on Twitter

rwmalonemd.substack.com

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"Malone claims to be the inventor of mRNA vaccines, although credit for the distinction is more often given to later advancements by Katalin Karikó or Derrick Rossi, and was ultimately the result of the contributions of hundreds of researchers, of whom Malone was but one. ... Malone received criticism for propagating COVID-19 misinformation, including making unsupported claims about the alleged toxicity of spike proteins generated by some COVID-19 vaccines; using interviews on mass media to popularize self-medication with ivermectin; and tweeting a study by others questioning vaccine safety that was later retracted." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Malone

I have a hard time trusting wikipedia to have bias free information at this point. With politicians able to scrub their bios prior to running and the general sense from reading the more popular pages.

The citation for his "self-medication" is from a Salon piece. Is this really where we've come to, a big circle jerk of citing low quality references to seem legitimate? How about linking to some actual long form media of what he said, not clips without context or articles even more removed.

I remember when first hand sources were sought after. It would be nice to see them used given how much more prevalent they are in modern society.

I also wouldn't take Wikipedia as definitive but this guy has a bunch of red flags.

So does Fauci, yet he still gets demigod like status

The ego is a strange thing

Could you elaborate on these red flags?

That's like trying to discredit the Wright brothers because they weren't the only contributors to flight technology.

Malone was a primary author[1] and has many patents to his name.

1] https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/86/16/6077.full.pdf

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