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https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriaforster/2021/01/11/covid-19-vaccines-cant-alter-your-dna-heres-why/

In this article on Forbes it is claimed that mrna vaccines can't in any way affect DNA. Does this go against new research on reverse transcription?

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    Is the question whether it can or whether it does?
    – user253751
    Apr 19, 2021 at 9:54
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    The latter implies the former anyway .
    – Puppet master
    Apr 19, 2021 at 10:01
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    but the former does not imply the latter. There are infinite things we don't know about molecular biology (or any other field), so how could we prove that it's never ever possible?
    – user253751
    Apr 19, 2021 at 10:02
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    that article specifically says "they did not find full-length viral RNA integrated into genomic DNA" and "I am not making the claim that an mRNA vaccine will permanently alter your genomic DNA." in other words, it's a troll post meant to get clicks to his blog
    – Avery
    Apr 19, 2021 at 10:41
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    related, can someone write a question about whether SARS-CoV-2 changes your DNA permanently?
    – user253751
    Apr 19, 2021 at 10:58

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