mRNA: The Technocrats’ ‘Godlike Technology’, by Dr. Aaron Kheriaty

By Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, The Stream, Oct. 17, 2022

Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, M.D., is the author of The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State and the director of the Bioethics and American Democracy program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Many of our technocrats seem undeterred by the failure of public health policies and associated new technologies to mitigate the COVID pandemic. Consider, for example, Pfizer’s and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines. How successful was this technology in its first large-scale trial run in humans?

A useful metric to cut through a lot of statistical noise is all-cause mortality. We can argue about the causes of death. Did this person die with COVID or from COVID? Was this fatality a vaccine side effect or a random temporal association? But we cannot argue about the body count. It is hard to spin death certificates. A recent preprint study in the medical journal The Lancet found that the mRNA vaccines showed no net benefit for all-cause mortality. …

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