As someone who has studied and written books on fear, I was deeply disturbed to hear the Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo attach the C word — cancer —to an extremely successful lifesaving vaccine, the latest COVID-19 mRNA booster, essentially warning people not to take it.

This approach ignores many major medical certainties.

First, as Dr. Paul Offit, head of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia recently told me, many therapeutics and vaccines shed tiny DNA fragments, but they are destroyed in the cytoplasm of the cell and rarely make it close to the nucleus, let alone incorporate into the body’s DNA.

There is essentially no concern whatsoever here about cancer unless we are talking about cancer as a personal terrorist that causes people to run from a lifesaving preventive at its very mention. In fact, as I can attest from my practice, the mRNA COVID vaccines are still quite useful in decreasing the severity of COVID in those most........

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