Florida’s firebrand surgeon general is calling for use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to be stopped.

Joseph Ladapo, M.D., wrote a letter to Robert Califf, M.D., commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Mandy Cohen, M.D., MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), last month. He cited a preprint study from October, which was not peer reviewed or published in a medical journal, claiming there are “nucleic acid contaminants” in both the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines.

Dr. Ladapo claims, without sufficient backing, that these contaminants can lead to the development of cancer, and damage a person’s blood, heart, lungs, liver, kidney and other organs.

The FDA replied to the surgeon general that there was no evidence the shots posed these types of danger, according to a statement from the Florida Department of Health on Wednesday.

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    Just as an aside here. The preprint Ladapo is citing, one of the key authors of that paper’s website has their certificate expired. They should really consider getting a professional to handle their site. That really dampens people who are reading the preprint to see what’s actually in it and looking up the various folks involved in it. Like I started looking for guy’s email address and now it’s like “guy c’mon, hire someone to do your site and if someone is actually doing your site, you should get someone else.”

    That’s all, I’m still reading the preprint though and getting through it.

    Dude’s certificate below:

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