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URL: https://reason.com/2025/11/13/covid-shots-are-not-causing-a-turbo-cancer-epidemic
Domain: reason.com
Site Name: Reason.com
Section: Health
Publisher: Reason.com
Author: Ronald Bailey
Published Date: November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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A claque of online anti-vaccine influencers and dissentient researchers are claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are causing an epidemic of aggressive, fast-spreading cancers.
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👤 Anti-vaccine influencers and dissentient researchers 🆔 c8aa366a-a368-47df-ac44-b285fb1983b7

Simplified: Anti-vaccine influencers claim COVID-19 vaccines cause an epidemic of aggressive cancers.
One of the more prominent promoters of this claim is British nurse educator and prolific YouTuber John Campbell.
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Simplified: John Campbell is a prominent promoter of the claim.
In a recent YouTube talk, Campbell claims, "There has been for some time now, from talking with various experts, about the increased risk of cancers, probably all types of cancer, or many types of can...
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👤 John Campbell 🆔 4d129f25-003d-46e2-ac5c-bd379afa607e

Simplified: Campbell claims COVID vaccines increase the risk of all types of cancer.
Another study, titled "COVID-19 mRNA-Induced 'Turbo Cancers'," published in the recently launched Journal of Independent Medicine, is coauthored by physician Paul Marik and his pseudonymous collaborat...
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👤 Paul Marik and Justus Hope 🆔 00c48523-14a2-471c-aca5-e0f4b10fa7d2

Simplified: Marik and Hope claim cancer incidence increased exponentially since COVID-19 vaccination programs started in 2020.
British oncologist Angus Dalgleish has also been a particularly prominent turbo-cancer proponent.
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Simplified: Angus Dalgleish is a prominent proponent of the turbo-cancer theory.
He claims that the vaccines "were horrible gene therapies that could actually integrate into your genome."
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👤 Angus Dalgleish 🆔 07958eb0-01b6-4c51-9ccb-13d65a773d5d

Simplified: Dalgleish claims COVID vaccines are gene therapies that integrate into the genome.
Since 2021, around 82 percent of Americans have received at least one COVID-19 shot (mostly mRNA vaccines).
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Simplified: About 82% of Americans have received at least one COVID-19 shot since 2021.
In fact, since the vaccine rollout, the electronic health records analysis firm Epic Research reports new cancer diagnoses in the U.S. are flat or slightly declining for most age groups.
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👤 Epic Research 🆔 defeace6-1849-40f5-b9e6-a3f8c89aae19

Simplified: Epic Research reports cancer diagnoses in the US are flat or declining since vaccine rollout.
A November article in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine finds that the increase is "more apparent than real."
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Simplified: JAMA Internal Medicine article states increase in cancer rates is more apparent than real.
A September 2024 study in Cancers by Pennsylvania State University researchers tracked cancer incidence rates among Americans aged 15 to 39 between 2015 and 2021. They identified no increase in cancer...
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👤 Pennsylvania State University researchers 🆔 4346d1b2-1d62-4b57-acd1-853d34e7a09c

Simplified: Penn State study found no increase in cancer incidence among Americans aged 15-39 between 2015 and 2021.
The researchers themselves, however, noted that they could not take into account various epidemiological confounders, especially the "healthy vaccinee bias."
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👤 Researchers of an Italian study 🆔 27f01b61-a83d-4477-babd-805e62f39d94

Simplified: Researchers in the Italian study noted they could not account for epidemiological confounders like the 'healthy vaccinee bias'.
Japanese Cancer Statistics 2025
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Simplified: Japanese Cancer Statistics 2025 exists.
mRNA Vaccines 'Turbo-Charge' Cancer Care
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Simplified: mRNA Vaccines 'Turbo-Charge' Cancer Care is a thing.
Contrary to turbo-cancer claims, mRNA vaccines instead appear to "turbo-charge" cancer immunotherapy treatments, according to an October report in Nature by researchers at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center...
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👤 Researchers at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center 🆔 23ee966b-c5eb-4210-a598-993f670ccbb9

Simplified: mRNA vaccines boost cancer immunotherapy, according to an October Nature report by MD Anderson researchers.
"Cancer patients who received mRNA COVID vaccines within 100 days of starting immunotherapy were twice as likely to be alive three years after treatment as those who never received a vaccine," notes t...
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Simplified: Cancer patients vaccinated with mRNA vaccines near immunotherapy were twice as likely to be alive after three years.
Yet instead of hailing the promise of mRNA vaccines, the founder of America's leading anti-vax advocacy group, RFJ Jr., canceled 22 mRNA federal vaccine development contracts totaling around $500 mill...
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Simplified: RFK Jr. cancelled $500 million in mRNA vaccine development contracts.