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The existence of viruses is not speculative.

• The National Library of Medicine's NCBI Bookshelf defines viruses as microscopic entities with DNA or RNA, and notes that virus particles (virions) can be quantified visually by electron and epifluorescence microscopy.
• CDC researchers reported isolating SARS-CoV-2 from a U.S. patient and characterizing its viral sequence, replication properties, and cell-culture behavior.

Those are direct lines of evidence—microscopy, isolation, genome sequencing, and laboratory culture—that contradict the claim that viruses do not exist.

Authoritative public-health sources directly contradict the statement that "no one died of COVID-19."

• The World Health Organization states that as of June 28, 2026, more than seven million confirmed deaths from COVID-19 had been reported worldwide.
• The U.S. CDC's National Center for Health Statistics maintains a mortality surveillance page based on death certificates and explains that COVID-19 deaths are coded when COVID-19 is reported as a cause contributing to death. The page documents ongoing U.S. counts of deaths involving COVID-19.

Because these are official mortality records and global surveillance totals, the claim that nobody died from COVID-19 is factually incorrect.

WHO and CDC both state that COVID-19 and influenza are not the same disease.

• WHO says COVID-19 and seasonal influenza are respiratory infections caused by two different viruses: SARS-CoV-2 causes COVID-19, while influenza viruses cause flu.
• CDC likewise says COVID-19 is caused by infection with SARS-CoV-2, whereas flu is caused by influenza viruses.

The two illnesses can share some symptoms, but calling COVID-19 "just flu" is factually wrong because it misidentifies the disease itself.

This sentence denies two well-established facts.

1. Dinosaurs existed. The U.S. National Park Service states that dinosaurs are documented in the fossil record, including body fossils and trace fossils, and explains that our direct evidence comes from Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous rock formations. NPS also notes that body and trace fossils of non-avian dinosaurs have been documented from at least 21 National Park Service areas.

2. Earth rotates. NASA states that as Earth orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 23.9 hours. NASA also describes Earth's axis of rotation and related rotational motion in its Earth science materials.

These are basic conclusions supported by physical evidence—fossils in the geologic record and astronomical/geophysical measurements of Earth's motion.

The National Cancer Institute directly contradicts this claim.

• NCI states plainly: "Yes, cancer is a genetic disease. It is caused by changes in genes that control the way cells grow and multiply."
• NCI also explains that cancer is caused by DNA changes in genes and that these changes can activate oncogenes or disable tumor suppressor genes.

Cancer biology does involve metabolism, but the categorical statement that cancer is not a genetic disease and is purely metabolic is inconsistent with the mainstream evidence base summarized by NCI.

Company and NCI materials describe intismeran autogene/V940 as synthetic mRNA, not as a patient's own preexisting mRNA.

• Merck says intismeran autogene is an investigational mRNA-based individualized neoantigen therapy consisting of "a synthetic mRNA coding for up to 34 neoantigens" designed from the DNA sequence of the patient's tumor.
• Merck has also described mRNA-4157/V940 as a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine built to stimulate T-cell responses based on the tumor's mutation signature.

So calling it "our own mRNA" is inaccurate. It is a custom-designed synthetic product derived from analysis of the patient's tumor, not the person's naturally occurring endogenous mRNA.