Robert M. Malone, inventer of the MRNA vaccines, retweeted this comment.
Definitely agree with this tweet!
I keep seeing this. Can you please explain to me how one person is credited with inventing the MRNA vaccine? ...
...No one does any of this alone.
I'm still trying to figure him out. Anything written about him lately is wildly polarized ...surprise there .
Looking over peer-reviewed literature, his work at the Salk Institute in the late 80s did seem to have paved the way for mRNA therapeutics. He has published extensively in reputable journals. Most peer-reviewed articles in his body of work have high citation rates by other scientists (an important consideration when evaluating research) and his educational background is excellent ...Northwestern medical degree, UC Davis internship and fellowship, Harvard fellowship.
But calling himself the "inventor of mRNA vaccines" when this type research (as
@Dancing_Queen pointed out above) is collaborative sounds squirrely. Since his webpage lists him as RW Malone MD,
LLC, I'd imagine it's partly to do with money. He hasn't been affiliated with an academic research institution since 2013, has founded a couple of independent pharmaceutical companies (one of which appears to have failed), has/is serving as a consultant for others.
He definitely knows his stuff, but does he stand to gain monetarily by tweaking the science to create his own 'safer' vaccine to replace the current ones? Probably. But complicating the issue is that no other mRNA delivered therapeutics have ever passed traditional, non-emergency clinical trials and I'd imagine he knows the dangers that resulted in their failure to pass. There's likely a mix of factors but he's doing himself no favors by self-promoting as the mRNA inventor.