Once again -- International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research is an anti-vax organization which continually pushes fabrications. This is not a mainstream medical association.
It did make me laugh out loud like something out of the sci-fi movie scene Venom. Looks like they need to retake biochem 101 laboratory class.
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...“It was in 3D, suspended in space, and one of its little tentacles actually moved –
so it was alive – and it was actually pointed up through the lens where my eye piece is.”
Madej suggests the tentacled creature is a freshwater polyp called hydra vulgaris, a claim already debunked by Reuters
here.
However, the claim that these images are evidence of metallic fragments or living organisms in sterile COVID-19 vaccines is also baseless.
“These guys look at dust particles and fabric fibres and other bits of mess under the microscope, take some blurry pictures and pretend they found something amazing,” said Matthias Eberl, professor of translational immunology at the University of Cardiff, who spoke to Reuters over the phone.
- “They look like things like fabric fibres, cotton fibres or house dust. If you don’t keep your microscope or cover slides clean, this is what it’ll look like.”
Describing the pictures as “definite contamination,” he added: “Then they leave their samples under the microscope and watch them for hours - that’s when samples dry out, get warm from the light source, and the salt in the solutions starts to form crystals.”
Experts at Meedan’s Health Desk, a group of public health scientists working to tackle medical misinformation online, labelled Madej’s claims “hearsay” and “unrealistic” given there is no proof, peer review or validation that her images show a recently-sealed Moderna vaccine vial over a two-hour period.
The group also told Reuters the particles could be common contaminants. “If these images are real, it’s very likely they could just be fibres from clothing, skin cells, or any other dust in the room,” they said in an email.
“We have no reason to believe this was a sterilized, decontaminated lab so any number of bacteria or microbes or moulds or viruses could have been circulating in the air causing either chemical or biological contamination.”
They added that several factors may cause a change in sample appearance in a non-sterile lab, including a lack of air filtration, mobile phones on surfaces and aerosols from speaking near the specimen.
Eberl directed Reuters to multiple microscopic pictures of common debris, including house dust (
here and
here), and cotton fibres (
here). He also sent pictures of plant hairs (
here ,
here and
here), which appear to have tentacle-like arms.
When presented with Madej’s claim that the particles could move, he said: “Things in watery solutions always wiggle around, it’s called
‘Brownian motion’...
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSL1N2RT1IG
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