‘Conscientious Objection’ Reason Enough to Refuse mRNA Vaccines: Canadian Paper in Peer-Reviewed Journal

‘Conscientious Objection’ Reason Enough to Refuse mRNA Vaccines: Canadian Paper in Peer-Reviewed Journal
Vials with Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine labels are seen in this illustration picture. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
Andrew Chen
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A Canadian paper published in a peer-reviewed international journal proposes that “conscientious objection” is an adequate reason to refuse mRNA vaccines as a preventive treatment against COVID-19.

The authors present the scientific basis for their proposal, explaining that the vaccines consist of artificial mRNAs wrapped in lipid nanoparticles that force the recipient’s cells to produce, “against their nature, a biological active viral protein” of an unknown dose and quality.