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Ronan Connolly/Gerry Quinn: “Assessing the Safety of the Modified mRNA Vaccine” #442
03 November 2026

Ronan Connolly/Gerry Quinn: “Assessing the Safety of the Modified mRNA Vaccine” #442

Tom Nelson

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Ronan Connolly and Gerry Quinn discuss their new peer-reviewed Journal of Toxicology paper assessing safety concerns around modified mRNA COVID vaccines. They criticize shifting claims about vaccine efficacy, difficulties publishing dissenting views, and argue the technology differs from traditional vaccines because it delivers genetic instructions via lipid nanoparticles with broad body distribution. They discuss potential issues including dosing and duration of spike protein production, microvesicle transport, pseudouridine-related frame shifting and protein misfolding, manufacturing differences between trials and mass rollout, and possible DNA contamination. They also review clinical trial criticisms, seasonality findings, and argue observational claims of lives saved rely on models and confounding.


00:00 Guests and COVID Paper Recap

01:32 New mRNA Vaccine Focus

03:22 New Toxicology Paper and Caveats

08:50 Why Discussing Harms Was Taboo

10:28 Old Vaccines vs Gene Tech

15:27 Testing Gaps and Gene Therapy Roots

23:42 Where It Goes and How Long It Lasts

28:27 Manufacturing Differences and Contamination

36:13 Nobel Prize and Pseudouridine

41:15 How Modified Bases Can Misread

42:13 Frameshift Proteins Found

43:08 Codons Explained Simply

44:57 Reductionism Meets Epigenetics

47:30 Codon Optimization Changes Folding

51:37 Why Spike Protein Matters

56:14 Long COVID vs Long Vax

58:40 Trial Efficacy Math

01:02:02 Whistleblowers and Unblinding

01:07:26 Seasonality and Lockdowns

01:11:10 Lives Saved Model Critique

01:15:26 Observational Study Confounding

01:18:37 Adverse Events and Gatekeeping

01:23:26 Final Takeaways and Resources


Ronan’s X: https://x.com/1RonanConnolly

Gerry’s X: https://x.com/jercuinn

“Scientists uncover major safety concerns over mRNA vaccine technology”: https://www.ceres-science.com/post/scientists-uncover-major-safety-concerns-over-mrna-vaccine-technology

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