WorldNetDaily’s resident COVID misinformer, Art Moore, struck again in a Jan. 18 article:
An MIT scientist is warning of possible long-term damage to the brain from COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, saying it’s likely there will be an “alarming” rise in several major neurodegenerative diseases.
And that’s likely to happen increasingly among the younger population, according to Stephanie Seneff in an academic paper titled “Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19” published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research.
Seneff, a senior research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Monday night it’s “outrageous to be giving vaccines to young people because they have … a very, very low risk of dying from COVID.”
“So, they don’t get a benefit,” she said. “And when you look at the potential harm from these vaccines, it just doesn’t make any sense.”
And repeated boosters, Seneff added, will be “very devastating in the long term.”
The MIT scientist said she has done a lot of research on the subject and is “beginning to understand how the process takes place.”
Well, not so much — she has no demonstrated expertise in medical issues. Moore hinted at it when he called her a “senior research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory”; in fact, her doctorate is in electrical engineering and computer science — not in anything medical.
Before becoming an anti-vaxxer, Seneff’s claim to medical infamy — again, she has no formal medical training — was devising a claim that autism is caused by exposure to the weed killer glyphosphate, a claim that has been embraced by quack doctor Joseph Mercola.
Meanwhile, the Genetic Literacy Project reported that Seneff’s dubious COVID vaccine claims have gotten the attention of anti-vaxxer Robert Kennedy Jr. — again, not the kind of company credible people keep. Further, despite Moore’s portrayal of the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research — the journal that published Seneff’s paper — as “peer-reviewed,” the Genetic Literacy Project noted that nobody outside the fringe-wacko community treats it as a credible publication. (One scientist observed that publishing something there “seems to be no different than self-publishing a book on Amazon Kindle.” Further, Seneff is actually a member of the journal’s editorial staff, which also raises credibility and independence questions.
(There’s another familiar name on that editor list: Russell Blaylock, who has spent years peddling anti-vaxxer claims at Newsmax.)
Moore’s insistence on promoting the dubious claims of discredited people doesn’t make anyone want to take either him or WND seriously as a credible source of news. It’s something WND should keep in mind as it tries to avoid going out of business, but surprisingly, it hasn’t thus far.