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Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ by barbazoo on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:30PM (#29886555)
The wiki link you posted is the only version mentioning his name prominently. Neither before (https://web.archive.org/web/20210530162316/https://en.wikipe...) nor after. So I wouldn't call it "scrubbing". It'd be like me putting my name in there and calling it scrubbing when the next person removes it.

I trust consensus I guess but I'm not an expert in any of this at all so my ability to verify anything is quite limited. I might have made a mistake here but I'm still not convinced he's trustworthy.

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Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ by hunterb123 on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:35PM (#29887149)
I didn't call it scrubbing. I made a vague comment about memory holing him but that was a reference to the Twitter ban, Wikipedia removal, etc. in general.

A scientist isn't trustworthy or not, their work speaks for itself. He invented the original mRNA platform. He was a key scientist in the first mRNA vaccine experiments.

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Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ by barbazoo on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:48PM (#29887275)
He's making statements about the severity and frequency of side effects in children that I just can't find any proof for. That disqualifies him in my opinion until I can find data supporting his claims.

Until then, for me, he's in the same corner as others hanging out with right-wing extremists [1] spreading misinformation.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-m...

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Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ by hunterb123 on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @06:41AM (#29890273)
That propaganda hit piece was already posted elsewhere and I commented:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29881075

Please be specific which statement you disagree with.

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Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ by barbazoo on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @09:02PM (#29901366)
Not sure what you mean by propaganda hit piece but you seem to be having some kind of beef with The Atlantic. I can easily verify what's written in there. He was on Tucker Carlson (1) and Steve Bannon (2), it's not easy to find him talking to non right wing extremists. That's all I said and all I referenced the article for.

If you're referring to the statements about child vaccine side effects, I mentioned those in my earlier comment.

(1) https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-mrna-vaccine-in...

(2) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=00BKcx3HO0Q

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