Making Sense of Medical Science (MSMS)

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Steve Clark, PhD is a retired university professor with a PhD in immunology and a past Special Fellow of the Leukemia Society of America. Clark has published dozens of papers based on his research and holds two drug patents. He taught medical and graduate students about cancer biology and genetics, and about research ethics. He also directed an NIH-funded PhD Graduate Program and chaired several executive-level faculty committees. Clark served on the University Chancellor’s Speaker’s Bureau. While retired, Clark has been blogging on the COVID pandemic, which is the subject of his next book.

Category: Coronavirus

  • COVID And Kids

    • About 1 in 5 children hospitalized with COVID were admitted to the intensive care unit. • Significantly, >90 percent of these children who were hospitalized or died from COVID weren’t vaccinated.

  • Are mRNA Vaccines Gene Therapy?

    It is biologically impossible for an mRNA vaccine to affect your cell DNA in any way. Think about it—it if could, then all of your cellular mRNA from normal genes being expressed, and the mRNA you eat, breath get from other vaccines, wounds, etc. could do the same. But it does not.

  • Vaccinating Pregnant Women And Kids Against COVID: Suspicion vs Science

    The announcement in May on X by Health Secretary RFK, Jr. that the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccinations for children over 6 months and pregnant women took the entire CDC by surprise. Kennedy’s decree represents a profound policy shift as well as a major assault on science-based medicine. It completely abandons established procedures…

  • New Data On COVID Vaccine Deaths

    Two years ago, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll showed that 34% of Americans believe that the COVID vaccines have caused thousands of sudden deaths. As a result, some health departments have been forbidden from promoting the shots or have had to even ban them.

  • COVID: Don’t Touch My Junk

    Well, we now know that the organs of the male reproductive system, including the prostate, testicles, and penis actually can be infected by the COVID virus an, thus, have their functions compromised. This can result in erectile dysfunction, decreased testosterone, and reduced sperm levels in 60-75% of infected patients…

  • SARS-CoV-2, A Respiratory Virus That Messes With Your Gut

    The CoV-2 virus that causes COVID is a respiratory bug, right? They say we catch it, not from surfaces or food, like we do norovirus, but from airborne exposure—we breathe it in. That of course, means that it causes respiratory problems. Makes sense, right? Well, Sarah Carter, 36, from San Mateo, CA, caught the virus…

  • Over 400 Studies Show Face Masks Protect Against Respiratory Infection

    Now a new meta-analysis by University of Oxford researchers, or an analysis of some 400 published studies on facemasks, further confirms that if they are correctly and consistently worn they effectively protect against respiratory infections, including COVID.

  • SpaceX AND BioX Do It Again!!

    Just a few days before the SpaceX catch, it was announced that BioX won the 2024 Nobel Prize for using a computer, or artificial intelligence, to decipher the structure of ALL known proteins, and for using similar technology to create whole new functional proteins. We are in a new brave world of science.

  • Still Digging Into Long COVID

    …some progress is being made; probably not fast enough if you are a long COVID sufferer, but medical science often moves at a glacial pace. Here, I describe some of our recent advances in learning about the problem.

  • NIH Launches First Trial Of Nasal COVID Vaccine

    Wouldn’t it be nice if a vaccine could be developed to nip the infection in the bud at the site of entry so it could not set up shop at all? That is an idea behind a mucosal vaccine that I described earlier. This summer, NIH launched the initial Phase 1 trial to begin testing…