Definition of the word "vaccine": Nov, 2020: "Definition of vaccine: a preparation of killed microorganisms, living attenuated organisms, or living fully virulent organisms that is administered to produce or artificially increase immunity to a particular disease"
c.f. current definition: "Vaccine: b): a preparation of genetic material (such as a strand of synthesized messenger RNA) that is used by the cells of the body to produce an antigenic substance (such as a fragment of virus spike protein)"
don't worry, i'm sure it doesn't mean anything.
It means we invented mRNA vaccines, which were never organisms of any kind. But they're clearly vaccines. Whatever dictionary you picked updated its definition accordingly. Strictly speaking, according to your "Nov, 2020" definition, smallpox is a cowpox vaccine. I think that's silly. I'd prefer a definition like:
> vaccine (n): a substance that supplies antigenic information to the immune system to protect against a disease, while causing less harm than the disease that the vaccine immunises against.
Changing the definition so pfizer et al can rake in $50 billion is what i take issue with. If they had said "This isn't a vaccine it's genetic modification" or whatever, no one would have signed up for it. It was a concentrated effort to change language. Control words, control thoughts - George Carlin was commenting on this in the 1990s!
I am not the only one that takes issue with all of this crap.
It's like the difference between an image and a computer program. Sure, you can sometimes construct a WebP image that executes arbitrary code, if you have enough information about the execution environment, but that doesn't make all (or even most) images programs, and it doesn't mean we should delete all the diagrams from our textbooks. Or the difference between a spoon and a razor blade. Metal can be shaped into sharp blades, but that doesn't mean we should swear off putting cutlery in our mouths.
More to the point, I don't see the argument for not calling mRNA vaccines vaccines. Did you think that live attenuated viruses don't have RNA in them?
Um sir, take your crack pot theories out of this post which provides evidence of a different previous crack pot theory.
Science has no room for folks who don't preach the dogma.