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.

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  • 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.

  • Tattoos and Vaccines: Muddled Thinking And A Good Idea

    The way that vaccinologists have taken notice of tattoo technology is intriguing. They have taken their knowledge of skin immunology and realized that a pop culture technique probably might contribute to the field. The irony is that many people who get tattooed are vax deniers. Their cognitive dissonance is disturbing. Vax deniers proclaim loudly disinformation…

  • BioX Wins The Nobel!

    The breathtaking speed with which a new biology discovered the SARS-CoV-2 virus then developed a safe and effective vaccine against it ushered in a new post-molecular biology world I dubbed ‘BioX’.