Dr. Paul Offit

Assuming you live on this planet and you eat anything made from vegetables or animals on this planet, which is pretty much everybody, you're going to ingest foreign DNA, some of which will end up in your circulation, okay? But it won't get into your nucleus, which is where your DNA resides. One, because it's very hard to get across the cell membrane anyway.

Assuming you live on this planet and you eat anything made from vegetables or animals on this planet, which is pretty much everybody, you're going to ingest foreign DNA, some of which will end up in your circulation, okay? But it won't get into your nucleus, which is where your DNA resides. One, because it's very hard to get across the cell membrane anyway.

Assuming you live on this planet and you eat anything made from vegetables or animals on this planet, which is pretty much everybody, you're going to ingest foreign DNA, some of which will end up in your circulation, okay? But it won't get into your nucleus, which is where your DNA resides. One, because it's very hard to get across the cell membrane anyway.

Two, even if it gets across the cell membrane, and it's in that area called the cytoplasm, which is sort of outside the nucleus, There are innate mechanisms that will destroy and recognize foreign DNA. If it gets across the cell membrane, which it can't because it doesn't have a nuclear access signal, it can't get across a non-dividing cell, it won't enter that nucleus.

Two, even if it gets across the cell membrane, and it's in that area called the cytoplasm, which is sort of outside the nucleus, There are innate mechanisms that will destroy and recognize foreign DNA. If it gets across the cell membrane, which it can't because it doesn't have a nuclear access signal, it can't get across a non-dividing cell, it won't enter that nucleus.

Two, even if it gets across the cell membrane, and it's in that area called the cytoplasm, which is sort of outside the nucleus, There are innate mechanisms that will destroy and recognize foreign DNA. If it gets across the cell membrane, which it can't because it doesn't have a nuclear access signal, it can't get across a non-dividing cell, it won't enter that nucleus.

Even if it entered by some magical way, it doesn't have an enzyme that allows it to insert into your DNA. So it's not possible. It can't possibly happen, which is basically what I said earlier.

Even if it entered by some magical way, it doesn't have an enzyme that allows it to insert into your DNA. So it's not possible. It can't possibly happen, which is basically what I said earlier.

Even if it entered by some magical way, it doesn't have an enzyme that allows it to insert into your DNA. So it's not possible. It can't possibly happen, which is basically what I said earlier.

on cnn i mean and so brianna killer was nice she said well how come everybody doesn't know this i don't know i don't know why but because it's i think i because i've been dealing with this now for more than 20 years trying to deal with anti-vaccine activists and i think my best shot so to speak is when i can say here's why it doesn't make sense i remember with it back in the andrew wakefield when he first launched

on cnn i mean and so brianna killer was nice she said well how come everybody doesn't know this i don't know i don't know why but because it's i think i because i've been dealing with this now for more than 20 years trying to deal with anti-vaccine activists and i think my best shot so to speak is when i can say here's why it doesn't make sense i remember with it back in the andrew wakefield when he first launched

on cnn i mean and so brianna killer was nice she said well how come everybody doesn't know this i don't know i don't know why but because it's i think i because i've been dealing with this now for more than 20 years trying to deal with anti-vaccine activists and i think my best shot so to speak is when i can say here's why it doesn't make sense i remember with it back in the andrew wakefield when he first launched

the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine causes autism with that paper in the Lancet. I had to testify in front of Dan Burton's Committee on Government Reform. So there was Wakefield and some sort of hucksters on one side talking about how they were going to prevent or cure autism. Wakefield was going to prevent it by having you not give the MMR vaccine.

the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine causes autism with that paper in the Lancet. I had to testify in front of Dan Burton's Committee on Government Reform. So there was Wakefield and some sort of hucksters on one side talking about how they were going to prevent or cure autism. Wakefield was going to prevent it by having you not give the MMR vaccine.

the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine causes autism with that paper in the Lancet. I had to testify in front of Dan Burton's Committee on Government Reform. So there was Wakefield and some sort of hucksters on one side talking about how they were going to prevent or cure autism. Wakefield was going to prevent it by having you not give the MMR vaccine.

The other ones were going to have this series of sort of alternative medicines to cure it. And then I was on the same side with Colleen Boyle from the CDC. So my job at that, my five minutes I had to speak was, here's why it doesn't make sense. Here's why what he said doesn't make sense. He makes this proposition and this proposition and this proposition, none of which makes sense.

The other ones were going to have this series of sort of alternative medicines to cure it. And then I was on the same side with Colleen Boyle from the CDC. So my job at that, my five minutes I had to speak was, here's why it doesn't make sense. Here's why what he said doesn't make sense. He makes this proposition and this proposition and this proposition, none of which makes sense.

The other ones were going to have this series of sort of alternative medicines to cure it. And then I was on the same side with Colleen Boyle from the CDC. So my job at that, my five minutes I had to speak was, here's why it doesn't make sense. Here's why what he said doesn't make sense. He makes this proposition and this proposition and this proposition, none of which makes sense.

It's like the Red Queen from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland imagining six impossible things before breakfast. That's, I think, your most powerful argument. And at the end, and that was a packed meeting. I mean, a number of parents came up to me when it was over and said, thank you. They cared. I mean, they had children with autism. They wanted to understand what the cause or causes were.

It's like the Red Queen from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland imagining six impossible things before breakfast. That's, I think, your most powerful argument. And at the end, and that was a packed meeting. I mean, a number of parents came up to me when it was over and said, thank you. They cared. I mean, they had children with autism. They wanted to understand what the cause or causes were.