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+**Ian Sample** is a British journalist. He is employed as Science Editor at [[The Guardian]].((//Ian Sample.// (2019, December). The Guardian. https://web.archive.org/web/20221019045704/https://www.theguardian.com/profile/iansample))
+===== COVID-19 =====
+On October 16, 2022, the Guardian published an article written by Sample titled "Vaccines to treat cancer possible by 2030, say BioNTech founders".((Sample, I. (2022, October 16). //Vaccines to treat cancer possible by 2030, say BioNTech founders.// The Guardian. http://archive.today/2022.10.16-205648/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/16/vaccines-to-treat-cancer-possible-by-2030-say-biontech-founders)) The piece discussed [[pharmaceutical_companies:BioNTech]]'s plans to return its focus to developing [[mRNA]]-based [[cancer vaccines]], basing itself on the supposed "success" of the [[COVID-19 vaccines]] rolled out rapidly in 2020 through 2022.((Sturgess, L. (2022, October 17). //This is terrifying.  @BioNTech  is claiming that:  1) The #spikeprotein that your cells create from the gene transfer is “harmless”;  2) #cancervaccines will use the same mechanism, but with “cancer antigens”, which “stud the surface of #cancer cells.”// Twitter. https://twitter.com/TheLiamSturgess/status/1582128704708546560)) Explaining the mechanism of action for the shots, Sample wrote "An mRNA Covid vaccine works by ferrying the genetic instructions for __harmless spike proteins__ on the Covid virus into the body."
+However, by October 18, the article had been quietly updated to read "An mRNA Covid vaccine works by ferrying the genetic instructions for __essentially harmless spike proteins__ on the Covid virus into the body."((Sample, I. (2022b, October 16). //Vaccines to treat cancer possible by 2030, say BioNTech founders.// The Guardian. https://web.archive.org/web/20221019041502/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/16/vaccines-to-treat-cancer-possible-by-2030-say-biontech-founders))