Nathan Davis

This is chemistry by Halloween costume. MRC-5 does not mean “aborted babies are injected into children.” Viruses are grown in laboratory cell lines descended from fetal tissue obtained decades ago; the finished vaccine may contain trace residual cellular protein or DNA after purification. (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) 2-phenoxyethanol is not “antifreeze.” Ethylene glycol is antifreeze. 2-phenoxyethanol is a preservative/stabilizer used in some vaccines. Formaldehyde? Your own cells make it continuously. An average newborn already has roughly 50–70 times more formaldehyde naturally in the body than the maximum amount received from a vaccine dose. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) Polysorbate 80 is not a carcinogen; it is used in foods and medicines, and vaccine quantities are tiny. (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) Potassium chloride is “used in lethal injection” in the same sense that water is used in drowning. Dose matters. Aluminum salts are adjuvants, measured in fractions of a milligram per dose; the current childhood schedule gives only a few milligrams over the entire first year. (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) Gelatin, albumin, salts, sugars and amino acids are not sinister because someone has supplied an unpleasant parenthetical description. Toxicology begins with dose, route, formulation and exposure. This list removes all four and replaces them with adjectives. If your argument depends on calling potassium “lethal injection fluid” and phenoxyethanol “antifreeze,” you are selling fear, not chemistry.