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The mRNA Covid vaccines do not alter your DNA. Conspiracy theorist nonsense and lies don't belong in this forum.

Noone upthread said that they alter DNA. I continue to be baffled by people bringing this up out of nowhere.

He edited his comment some time after I composed my reply. He directly claimed that mRNA vaccines alter your DNA and "modified your cells".

For the second part, being generous, you could say that the point of a vaccine is to modify your immune cells but it's more likely it was unfounded paranoia.

Fair enough.

I have seen this claim elsewhere, and the people who bring it up know about reverse-transcriptase [0], an enzyme that can convert RNA to DNA. I've never seen anyone attempt to address that part of their claim, instead people just say "RNA is not DNA, duh." and leave it at that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_transcriptase

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