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> the company has so far found no obvious negative effects in mice given the gene therapy.

Yeah, stopped reading at that point, there are always negative/side effects, unless you clearly state them, I don't trust you. We are only slowly learning truth about COVID vaccine, which affected DNA much less than this would.

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You know what definitely affects DNA? Viruses. It’s literally how they reproduce. In fact the genome of every animal is littered with thousands of partial copies of ancient viruses that are now permanent parts of the human genome. So many that the human genome is 8% virus. Every time you catch a cold your dna is being altered. Covid messes with your dna orders of magnitude more than any vaccine- if the vaccine does at all, which is dubious.

> so far found no

Different from a claim that there are none.

Why even publish incomplete research missing important data? Pretty much everything has negative/side effects even if they are rare, but to claim they don't see any is just premature publishing.

If they said they don't see any obvious side effects so far then it is a factual statement. Your interpretation is that there are no side effects. In this case luckily you know side effects always exist so you blame authors for your error, but in another case you may fall to subtle misinformation this way.

Side effects include: headache, nasal congestion, and Benjamin Button Syndrome.

What sort of _credible_ sources do we have that the COVID vaccine affected DNA?

https://www.science.org/content/article/further-evidence-off...

From your own link, without even scrolling down:

  > Janesich and Young stress that their results, both
  > original and new, in no way imply that those vaccines
  > integrate their sequences into our DNA.

Of course.

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