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So you're saying he just made things up?

An expert opinion based on knowledge of virology and the impact of the vaccine on symptoms that lead to transmission is "making things up" much in the same way the Manhattan project "made up" nuclear weapons.

While the vaccines do not eliminate all transmission, they can help. Studies done after distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines began, including research by Pfizer, did find that the company’s shot reduced asymptomatic infections in addition to symptomatic cases with earlier variants of the virus. Researchers in the United Kingdom reported in a February observational study that Pfizer’s vaccine helped cut transmission of the alpha and delta variants.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-pfizer-transmission-eu...

> An expert opinion based on knowledge of virology and the impact of the vaccine on symptoms that lead to transmission is "making things up" much in the same way the Manhattan project "made up" nuclear weapons.

I don't remember the Manhattan project making any public statements that had an impact on public health?

What kind of a comparison is that?

They didn't make public statements because they were a secret military project. Not sure how that's a gotcha. They were still scientists using mostly untested theory to develop a weapon that certainly had a major public health impact. And other impacts.

> They didn't make public statements because they were a secret military project.

Yeah, that's my point.

How is your example at all relevant?

If you can't see how it is relevant then it is pretty clear how you draw medically inaccurate conclusions about stuff that has been well researched.

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