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jim peden's avatar

I have to confess that when I saw your headline I thought "God, I hope it isn't me!". No such luck - I specialise in (unintentionally) sniffy responses.

I wouldn't take it to heart. Scientists (and I was one once) tend to be brusque, especially when you're questioning something that they thought they already knew. There's a good deal more similarity between those who question the narrative and those who don't than either side would like to admit.

I'm a fan of David Hume's dictum "reason is the slave of the passions" (he wrote "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."). The physicist Richard Feynman echoed this when he said that “Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”

In the end, the debate about LNPs will be resolved but there will be some RAISED VOICES, some hurt feelings and animosity before it's over. Keep asking questions!

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Mel Remple's avatar

IMO if the LNP are the issue they should be putting a halt to any and all future mRNA gene therapy development.

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