My morning started, as it often does, with a rather innocuous post about the concern with more variants appearing and the risks the unvaccinated pose to our progress.
How Vaccines can Crush the Variants and Make Reopening Permanent in Canada
As usual, a few people who know me commented and that normally would have been the end of it. But then someone else weighed in:
Enter Lorne Sieben, with a post about how vaccines are making people magnetic.
"Watch as Magnet sticks to vaccinated girl" obviously made a big impact on Lorne and he was quick to warn me that it had been taken down other places where he'd posted it. I think he was counting on me to express an appropriate amount of amazement. I think I disappointed him.
Now we ALL know that breaking science always appears on YouTube first, so this was no surprise to me at all. (joke).... But what was surprising was the realization that the anti-vaxx community is actually taking this seriously. In fact, one anti-vaxx quack was invited to speak to her notions before the Ohio State Legislature.
Needless to say, "Dr" Tenpenny is being ridiculed, not the least by this fellow from McGill.
So, back to Lorne. Remember Lorne? This is the guy who feels strongly enough about conspiracies that he was compelled to engage me in conversation about this vaccine side-effect. Here is the exchange, posted verbatim:
Dave McCormickLorne Sieben I do have to ask, though, what attracts you to conspiracies. I can see quite a few on your FB wall. And no recent posts. That strikes me as unusual.
Lorne SiebenIt's called discernment for the truth bud.Censorship as well,by Facebook and Youtube.
Lorne SiebenYour video with the person faking the spoon sticking does not disprove the video I posted .
Lorne SiebenSuperparamagnetic nanoparticle delivery of DNA vaccine
Fatin Nawwab Al-Deen 1 , Cordelia Selomulya, Charles Ma, Ross L Coppel
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PMID: 24715289 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0410-5_12
Abstract
The efficiency of delivery of DNA vaccines is often relatively low compared to protein vaccines. The use of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) to deliver genes via magnetofection shows promise in improving the efficiency of gene delivery both in vitro and in vivo. In particular, the duration for gene transfection especially for in vitro application can be significantly reduced by magnetofection compared to the time required to achieve high gene transfection with standard protocols. SPIONs that have been rendered stable in physiological conditions can be used as both therapeutic and diagnostic agents due to their unique magnetic characteristics. Valuable features of iron oxide nanoparticles in bioapplications include a tight control over their size distribution, magnetic properties of these particles, and the ability to carry particular biomolecules to specific targets. The internalization and half-life of the particles within the body depend upon the method of synthesis. Numerous synthesis methods have been used to produce magnetic nanoparticles for bioapplications with different sizes and surface charges. The most common method for synthesizing nanometer-sized magnetite Fe3O4 particles in solution is by chemical coprecipitation of iron salts. The coprecipitation method is an effective technique for preparing a stable aqueous dispersions of iron oxide nanoparticles. We describe the production of Fe3O4-based SPIONs with high magnetization values (70 emu/g) under 15 kOe of the applied magnetic field at room temperature, with 0.01 emu/g remanence via a coprecipitation method in the presence of trisodium citrate as a stabilizer. Naked SPIONs often lack sufficient stability, hydrophilicity, and the capacity to be functionalized. In order to overcome these limitations, polycationic polymer was anchored on the surface of freshly prepared SPIONs by a direct electrostatic attraction between the negatively charged SPIONs (due to the presence of carboxylic groups) and the positively charged polymer. Polyethylenimine was chosen to modify the surface of SPIONs to assist the delivery of plasmid DNA into mammalian cells due to the polymer's extensive buffering capacity through the "proton sponge" effect.
Lorne SiebenEither that or your a shill.Doesn't matter really.
[Reality insert here - note how you either agree with him or you're a paid shill. Or brainwashed, I guess. Personally, I think the dude needs a mirror into his soul, if he has one.]
Dave McCormickLorne Sieben Although my tendency these days is to block nitwits, I'm going to leave your posts here just so others can see how silly some of them are. Anti-vaxxers are getting desperate. Over 2.2 BILLION doses administered around the world. No 5G thingies, no tracking, no huge numbers of deaths, and worse, no magnetic properties. I am disappointed.
Dave McCormickLorne Sieben And the word is "you're", just so you know. Apparently it's not just your science education that was neglected. How is the search for that WTC7 conspiracy going dude?
Lorne SiebenDave McCormick Education is your problem.Memorize and regurgitate.No actual real independent thought.That's why you need to point out a spelling mistake instead of analyzing and questioning.
Dave McCormickLorne Sieben I analyzed your responses and found them seriously wanting. As will anyone with one iota of education and sense. I spent over 30 years working in the Biological and Chemical sciences area. I'll stick with information from people who know what they're talking about.
Lorne SiebenAnd you just proved my point of having no independent thought.And so the people at the highest levels "experts" can tell you anything and you with all your "knowledge" won't question and won't be able to discern the truth.
For me that means agenda's can be carried out.
Reminds me of Germany.Very highly educated and advanced society and the most brainwashed.
Lorne SiebenDave McCormick Even though there over 3000 Architects and Engineers backing the obvious demolition there are to many people like yourself.That and governments no matter which party are all in it together.
So it looks like things will only get worse.Much worse actually.
So, wow. A full-blown conspiracy theorist on my own FB wall. So who is Lorne?
Apparently this is who Lorne is. And he doesn't allow comments on his page. That's a trend I've noticed on more anti-vaxx FB pages. Guess people were challenging their favourite beliefs.
So, speaking of conspiracy theorists, I guess the real question is WHY, against ALL reasonable evidence, believe what they do. This is really a psychological question, so I checked to see what the American Psychological Association had to say. Readers will find their article interesting.
There are more. Lots more. Anyone interested can do a quick search for "psychology of conspiracy theorists". Lots to amuse you there. What's not amusing is the realization that some (or many?) of these people are at least somewhat mentally ill. Hard to come to any other conclusion.
So, back to Lorne. Remember Lorne? Lorne is one of those WTC7 conspiracy theorists. That the belief that World Trade Center building 7 was brought down by explosives. This silly notion was debunked by a report finally issued back in 2017. It's an interesting story which you can read about here. But the conclusion is that explosives did not bring down WTC7.
Lorne believes in the WTC7 conspiracy fairy tale. The fact that there is no evidence only convinces him that there is a conspiracy that is hiding the truth from us. This line of "thinking" carries over to the SARS-CoV-2 situation. This is how they claim that death certificates have been faked, that there have been thousands of deaths from the vaccines and that's not being reported (you know, bought and paid for lying liberal media....), why there was no real flu season this past year, not to mention 5G, microchips, Bill Gates, magnetism and the heartbreak of psoriasis.
Anyhow, it's been fun, waiting for the latest missive from Lorne. Usually I block clowns like him, but for some reason (boredom, curiosity....?) I let him keep posting and now we can all see the result. We're in the 21st Century, according to the calendar, but some days you'd never know it. I'm waiting for a FB post advocating examination of pigeon entrails to determine medical cures. Oh, wait, that was Donald and Hydroxychloroquine, or was that bleach? It's so hard to keep track.
