New York Times Deceives about Risks from DNA Contamination in mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines

In my post last week “DNA Contamination in Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Raises Safety Concerns“, I reported on how a new study confirms that the contamination problem exists and raises concerns about possibility of genomic integration of the foreign DNA with human DNA.

In that post, I remarked,

Naturally, despite the serious safety concerns raised by it, you have never read about the DNA contamination in Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in any mainstream media outlet. (Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong in the comments below; I’d love to be proven wrong if you can find a single mainstream media report about it.)

Well, no readers took that challenge, but I’ve since happened across a New York Times article from January that comes close to reporting it, titled “Citing Misinformation, Florida Health Official Calls for Halt to Covid Vaccines“.

The lead paragraph states,

Florida’s surgeon general on Wednesday called for a halt to the use of Covid vaccines, citing widely debunked concerns that contaminants in the vaccine can permanently integrate into human DNA.

Notice how instead of explicitly stating that the vaccines have been found to be contaminated with DNA, the Times words it in a way that leads readers to mistakenly conclude that the idea of contamination itself has been “debunked”.

The Times goes on to deny that there is any reason for concern by stating, “careful review of the scientific evidence has found no basis for his declarations” — an assertion attributed to “Federal health officials and other experts”, as though federal health officials and other “experts” haven’t had an egregious track record of lying to us and being wrong about practically everything Covid-related.

Of course, there is a basis for his declarations, which is the finding verified by multiple researchers that the vaccines are contaminated with DNA from the manufacturing process.

Thus, again, the Times misleads readers into believing that there is no contamination.

The closest the Times comes to reporting that the vaccines are contaminated with DNA is its dismissal of any concerns on the grounds that the FDA has said there is no reason for concern: “The Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday that it had not identified any ‘safety concerns related to the sequence of, or amount of, residual DNA.'”

Well, that settles it then! If the FDA says there’s nothing to see here, obviously we can trust that it’s a non-issue. I mean, the government never lies to us, right? And the idea that government officials might otherwise be incompetent is unfathomable.

Never mind the FDA’s proven track record of lying to the public, with one clear illustration being its authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for infants and toddlers being based on demonstrable scientific fraud, as I documented extensively in my freely downloadable e-book, The FDA, COVID-19 Vaccines, and Scientific Fraud: How the US Government Puts Children’s Health at Risk in Service to the Pharmaceutical Industry.

This is the same type of idiotic reporting that served to manufacture consent for the illegal war of aggression against Iraq started in March 2003: Federal officials and “experts” say Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, so it must be true!

(I got my start doing journalism by writing, prior to the US invasion, about how the government was lying, that the evidence rather indicated that Iraq had been disarmed in the early 1990s, which the government finally admitted was the case after having destroyed the country, causing massive death, and destabilizing the entire region.)

It’s the same type of idiotic reporting that served to manufacture consent for the experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccines: Fauci et al. say that two doses will confer durable sterilizing immunity that will end the pandemic by stopping infection and transmission, so it must be true!

Of course, Fauci et al. were brazenly lying about the effectiveness of the vaccines.

As a third example, take how the “public health” establishment and the media’s faux “fact checkers” claimed that the mRNA from COVID-19 vaccines and the spike protein they are designed to produce are eliminated from the body within days of vaccination, and that the spike protein is “harmless”.

In fact, it is well established in the scientific literature that the spike protein by itself is pathogenic, and both vaccine mRNA and spike protein have been found to persist for months in some individuals.

I documented that in my June 2022 article “Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccine mRNA and Spike Protein Are Not Cleared ‘Within Days’“

I also wrote a follow-up article in September 2023 citing a study finding persistence of spike protein in the blood of vaccinated individuals six months after vaccination.

So can anyone explain to me why we should accept the word of government officials as a matter of faith, like the New York Times does so consistently in its reporting?

(Especially when the government agency in question has an inherent conflict of interest, having been responsible for getting these experimental pharmaceutical products onto the market and injected into humans en masse? Not to mention the pervasive corruption, such as two FDA officials responsible for getting Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine to market subsequently leaving their FDA jobs to go work for Moderna.)

I cannot imagine a reason why we should place such faith in government officials. We rather have every reason not to do that.

(Will the mainstream media ever learn the lesson that we can’t trust the government? Ever?!)

Further into the New York Times article, the newspaper again almost reports that the vaccines have been found to be contaminated with DNA (emphasis added):

In his declaration on Wednesday, Dr. Ladapo contended that contaminants in the vaccines might integrate into human DNA, theoretically causing chromosomes to become unstable and healthy cells to become cancerous.

But notice that the Times doesn’t actually explain that Dr. Ladapo is correct that this contamination has been verified by multiple researchers after having initially been discovered by genomics expert Kevin McKernan.

And of course the Times poo-poos the concern by saying, “Experts in virology and immunology said those ideas were nonsensical.”

The link it provides is to an article by Dr. Paul Offit, who sat on the FDA’s advisory committee that recommended the agency grant the COVID-19 vaccines emergency use authorization in December 2020.

Offit was also once a member of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, where he used his vote to advance Merck’s financial agenda with its rotavirus vaccine that Offit himself ended up profiting from to the tune of millions of dollars since Merck had paid him to help develop the vaccine and he was named on the patent.

You can learn more about that in my 2019 article for Children’s Health Defense “The Rotavirus Vaccine: A Case Study in Government Corruption and Malfeasance“.

Naturally, the Times fails to disclose the conflicts of interest of the source it cites to poo-poo concerns about the finding of DNA contamination.

The Times asserts that “DNA vaccines have many orders of magnitude more DNA than is present as an mRNA vaccine contaminant, and yet have never been associated with cancer” — as though DNA vaccines had a long track record on the market of proven safety!

A paper by FDA researchers published in Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology in July 2020 noted that, on the contrary, “DNA vaccines were initially evaluated in clinical trials in the 1990s, but for various reasons, none was successful in human trials.”

The Times further claims that it is biologically impossible for foreign DNA to become integrated into human DNA, as follows:

For Dr. Ladapo’s claim to be true, humans would need to have an enzyme that can incorporate foreign DNA into their genomes.

“We don’t have one,” said Dr. Eric Rubin, a member of the F.D.A.’s vaccine advisory committee and the editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.

“There is no mechanism and no credible evidence,” Dr. Rubin said.

So, according to the Times, which relies on the FDA itself as the primary source for its assertion, there is no possible mechanism by which foreign DNA can become integrated into human DNA.

That’s puzzling because I can go into the scientific literature and read how, for example, “A major safety issue for plasmid DNA vectors is the potential for integration of the vector DNA into host genomic DNA….” (Emphasis added.)

That quote is from a paper in the journal Gene Therapy that notes how one means of getting DNA into the cells is via “formulation of DNA within cationic lipids or other particles”.

And guess what? The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are designed to deliver mRNA into the cells via lipid nanoparticles that can also carry the contaminant DNA into the cells.

Step one toward genomic integration: ✔️

And once again I can go into the scientific literature and read, for example, a paper in the journal Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics that explains how (emphasis added),

Among the risks that WHO, FDA, and EMA lists for the use of DNA vaccines is the hazard of integration into recipient’s chromosomal DNA with the resulting risk of insertional mutagenesis or spreading of antibiotics resistance genes.

Isn’t that curious?

A paper published in 1995 in the Annals of the New York Academies of Science noted that “foreign DNA may become chromosomally integrated” (bold emphasis added), and one of the concerns about the idea of DNA vaccines is that “foreign DNA molecules … may chromosomally integrate”, and “the worrisome aspects of foreign DNA integrating into cellular DNA are those concerning the potential risk of tumor induction.”

Here’s another one for you, a statement from no less an authority on mRNA COVID-19 vaccines than Moderna, the manufacturer of one of the two mRNA vaccines used in the US (emphasis added):

Once inside the nucleus, DNA vaccines have a risk of permanently changing a person’s DNA.

Let’s not stop there. Here’s a quote from a 2018 patent held by Moderna acknowledging that DNA contamination in an mRNA vaccine risks causing cancer (emphasis added):

The DNA template used in the mRNA manufacturing process must be removed to ensure the efficacy of therapeutics and safety, because residual DNA in drug products may induce activation of the innate response and has the potential to be oncogenic in patient populations.

And here’s a quote from a 2021 patent held by Moderna acknowledging the risk of integration of foreign DNA into the host genome (emphasis added):

There are multiple problems with prior methodologies of delivering pharmaceutical compositions in order to achieve effective protein expression both for therapeutics and bioprocessing applications. For example, introduced DNA can integrate into host cell genomic DNA at some frequency, resulting in alterations and/or damage to the host cell genomic DNA.

? Curiouser and curiouser.

The aforementioned paper by FDA researchers published in Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology in also acknowledged that with DNA vaccines, there is a “perceived risk of integration into host genome.”

A review article on regulatory issues for mRNA vaccines published in the journal Vaccines in 2021 notes that “It is important during mRNA purification to remove the DNA template, enzymes, and nucleotides.”

Now why is that, do you think, if DNA contamination is such a non-issue?

In fact, if DNA contamination is such a non-issue, why do government regulators even have a safety limit? ?

Well, as the authors of review article explain, there is “a theoretical concern for integration into the host genome with regard to plasmid DNA vaccines”. Additionally, if the mRNA in a COVID-19 vaccine were to be reverse transcribed into DNA, it could potentially be integrated into the host genome.

Now, let’s get back to the Times article. As noted, the Times cites Paul Offit, who argues that

[F]or trace quantities of fragmented DNA to affect our DNA, they must leave the cytoplasm and enter the nucleus of cells, where DNA resides. It is virtually impossible for foreign DNA to enter the nucleus of a cell that is not dividing. Even in cells that are dividing, it is extremely difficult for foreign DNA fragments to enter the nucleus.”

Virtually impossible, eh?

So here’s the funny thing. If you click the link to read Offit’s own source, you can learn how it has been demonstrated that “plasmids can be transported into the nuclei of nondividing cells”, and “the SV40 enhancer was all that was necessary for this DNA nuclear import.” (Emphasis added.)

Well, it just so happens that another contaminant in COVID-19 vaccines is the SV40 promoter, which is used in the vaccine manufacturing process to produce the mRNA in the vaccine, as I reported in my June 2023 article “DNA Contamination and Scientific Fraud in Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Trial“.

The Times poo-poos the resulting concerns by citing an FDA response to Dr. Ladapo. The Times doesn’t mention SV40, but its cited source notes that Ladapo had raised “the concern that SV40 promoter/enhancer DNA is present in these vaccines and that this raises safety concerns.” (Emphasis added.)

The FDA’s response to Ladapo’s concern was to offhandedly dismiss it on the grounds that it has faith in “the entire manufacturing process”.

That is a non-response that fails to substantively address the legitimate concerns raised by Dr. Ladapo.

In the comments section of Dr. Offit’s article, which he published on Substack, Kevin McKernan responded (bold emphasis added),

This is a gross display of professional negligence.

You assured your readers this DNA remains In the cytosol, yet any of your readers who have actually read our paper on the topic will have understood Dean et al [which is the paper cited by Offit contradicting his own premise] which demonstrates the SV40 promoter has a nuclear targeting sequence which localizes to the nucleus in hours in all cell lines studied to date.

The Times naturally neglected to mention that key detail.

To summarize:

Step 1) Foreign DNA can be carried by lipid nanoparticles into human cells: ✔️

Step 2) Foreign DNA in the presence of SV40 can enter the cell nucleus in the absence of cell division: ✔️

Step 3) It is acknowledged in the scientific literature that foreign DNA entering the cell nucleus raises the legitimate concern that it could integrate with the host genome: ✔️

So, is there any indication that such integration has been happening?

Well, that is the question that deserves an answer but that the government and mainstream media don’t want us to be asking.

And remember how the government lied about the vaccine mRNA and spike protein being rapidly eliminated from the body after vaccination — and how the media accepted that lie on faith and deceived their audiences by mindlessly parroting that official disinformation?

Well, in my September 2023 article “Spike Protein Found in Blood 6 Months After mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination“, I reported how the authors of the study in question, which was published in the journal Proteomics Clinical Applications, hypothesized that this finding could be explained by integration of the vaccine’s genetic material into human DNA.

For further reading, Children’s Health Defense has a great article on the study I reported about last week: “DNA Contamination in Pfizer COVID Vaccine Exceeded 500 Times Allowable Levels, Study Finds“. It includes Kevin McKernan’s helpful critique of the study.

As McKernan explains, “We are no longer debating whether the shots are contaminated. We’re just debating whether they are 10-fold or 100-fold over the limit and how much they vary from lot to lot.” (Emphasis added.)

Here is a 25-minute video overview of the problem by McKernan:

And here’s my post from last week for more details about the DNA contamination:

And here are my two prior articles debunking the establishment’s false claims about vaccine mRNA and spike protein being rapidly eliminated from the body: