*The following is from the March 21 2025 issue of the journal Nature: * *"Modelling studies suggest that, worldwide, mRNA vaccines saved more than 14 million lives in the first year they were administered, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers are now testing the technology against a litany of conditions, including mosquito-borne diseases and cancer, for which there are more than 100 ongoing trials. Yet some US officials, including Florida’s surgeon general, have called for a moratorium on the technology and have made baseless claims that the jabs cause cancer and are not safe."*
*"Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a long-time anti-vaccine advocate, was chosen by US President Donald Trump as the nation’s health secretary, and now runs the NIH’s parent agency. In 2021, he unsuccessfully petitioned government regulators to rescind approval of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and falsely claimed that this type of jab is the “deadliest vaccine ever made”, pointing to unverified claims of side effects on a government-run database."* *“Never in my life did I think that the government would turn against a field of research for non-scientific reasons,” says Drew Weissman, an immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for laying the groundwork needed to create mRNA vaccines. “I feel mostly bewildered, because the potential for RNA is so enormous.”* *NIH has cut one mRNA-vaccine grant. Will more follow?* <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00828-3?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=27a8bdd647-nature-briefing-daily-20250324&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-27a8bdd647-50169436> *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* wjs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv36hXkUvEHv2KUq8_Lr45ODeWFrWaOzvuS%2BH5FfPreK9A%40mail.gmail.com.
