The Claim:
People are STILL claiming the mRNA vaccines are not vaccines but are actually gene therapy.
The Facts:
Robert Malone (who is *not* the inventor of mRNA vaccines) chose his words carefully. He never said mRNA vaccines are gene therapy., but that they “are gene therapy technology applied for the purpose of eliciting an immune response.”
He is not wrong; mRNA vaccines did come out of gene therapy research which has been used in treatments to combat conditions such as cancer. But that does not mean that the vaccines themselves are gene therapy.
Gene therapy, at its core, alters a patient’s DNA to treat or cure them, something mRNA vaccines do not do. Vaccines took the idea of introducing mRNA to your cells without altering DNA, so it’s only present temporarily as opposed to making a permanent change to that cell. Importantly, mRNA cannot reach the nucleus of the cell, where DNA is found.