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Making innate sense of mRNA vaccine adjuvanticity

Written by nature.com

mRNA vaccines such as those used to prevent COVID-19 owe part of their success to methylation that masks immunostimulatory properties of the mRNA, but the immunological mechanisms of adjuvanticity are unclear. Two new studies reveal distinct mechanisms for innate sensing of this hidden adjuvant.

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Pfizer Insists They Did Test The Vaccine, On Over 5 Billion People

Written by The Babylon Bee

Despite the uproar caused by revelations at a European Union hearing that the pharmaceutical giant rushed the COVID-19 vaccine out into use without testing it for preventing transmission, Pfizer executives were quick to backtrack and point out that they did, in fact, test the vaccine — on over five billion people.

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Ike’s 1961 Farewell Speech Warning Still Relevant

Written by Alan B. Somers

Eisenhower also argued that scientific research could be hijacked by the influence of federal funding, stating, “The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.”

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