"think of the children" is usually thr hallmark of a self serving hioocritical cunt. Nothing else I read on the piece proves otherwise. In fact, if the epitopes are known, it's trivial and quite cheap to develop an mRNA based vaccine delivered by LNPs. Furthermore, he produced antibodies, but are they broadly neutralising?

Fuck these look at me scientists putting personal engrandisement in front of sound science.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago

See also the "cure" for Huntington's disease in September. Pure bullshit, but media loves these narcissistic intellectual lightweights. Remember how many COVID cures we had in 2021?

[–] worhui@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Fuck these look at me scientists putting personal engrandisement in front of sound science.

Without drawing attention to his work this would have been a dead end. It's possible the press gets attention to the idea and investors to pay for the process of getting this to testing and though the regulatory process.

Everyone seems to have recognized that doing good work and keeping your head down doesn't get anything positive done.

I personally see many many problems with the idea. It still could help people if developed and tested properly.