Weed Killer in Vaccines?

Today’s episode is born of frustration.  Fear-mongering non-experts are abusing improper interpretations from an available herbicide detection kit to make claims that herbicides are now found in vaccines.  Namely, they seek to find glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup.  They use a kit you can buy on the internet, but fail to use it in the way it is designed.  Instead of using it on water, they use it on complex mixtures that yield false positives that are interpreted as legitimate signals.

So to push back I want to provide you with the information you need to discuss these topics with confidence.  This topic has no guests.  I reached out to the folks making the claims as well as the company that makes the product, and nobody wants to join the conversation.  It is simply me talking about the claims, the assay, and how you can help debunk the bad information that pollutes this important public discourse. 

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