mRNA - New Kid on the Block

Whilst doing a bit of letting my fingers do the walking through the Yellow Googles, I came across this piece by Derek Lowe from 2023. I don't recall if I was a consumer of his writings back then. But it does qualify as a strong fuck you to the RFK crowd. To put it another way: the RFK crowd treats mRNA compounds (not just vaccines) like your average small-molecule drug - Dr. Frankenstein cobbled it together in a beaker in his lab.

mRNA has been in humans forever. It just wasn't until 1960 that the scientists found out it existed. Never before made, my ass. You can't make a vaccine in short order, my ass. 60 years, or thereabouts.

This is a key discovery in getting mRNA vaccine technology to work, and the research along these lines, which had already been going on for years before the coronavirus pandemic, is absolutely a reason why we had effective vaccines available so quickly.

And, just so no one forgets: Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don's OWS had nothing to do with it.