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>Preston Estep, Don Wang, Alex Hoekstra, Ranjan Ahuja, George Church, Brian Delaney, and over 100 others

Pretty sure George Church is a "formally trained scientist"!



Dude, Pfizer can make a mRNA vaccine but that doesn't mean if I follow their directions I can.

This guy is a total amateur. He bought some proteins, diluted them then shot them in his nose. That's not science.

And I also question his methods. Simply shooting a small peptide into your nose is unlikely to elicit any major immune response. Cells in your respiratory tract excrete proteases. I'm guessing those peptides get chewed up pretty quickly. You need to develop and validate some sort of delivery mechanism.


He used chitosan nanoparticle as delivery mechanism, which has been validated in multiple clinical trials.


Ahh.. that’s what it’s for. Going on the radovac site there is no validation of nanoparticle formation? Just mix, shake a bit and it’s good?

This is so far from any resemblance to an actual therapeutic vaccine it’s just scary. Reminds me of the recipes for making meth on the web. Sure, it theoretically works, but nobody seems to check the final product.




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