Videos about magnetic vaccine containers is going viral on various social media platforms. Along with the misleading narrative that the injected COVID-19 vaccine contains a magnetic microchip.
The COVID-19 Handling Task Force in one of the uploads confirmed that the video was a hoax. Mentioned, experts have said that the magnetic reaction as a side effect of vaccines is completely unfounded.
There are several reasons to believe that ‘magnetic vaccine containers‘is just a hoax. Here are some of them:
1. Impossible to insert magnetic chip
Quoted from Covid19.go.id, cellular biology researcher Dr Thomas Hope from Northwestern University explained that the COVID-19 vaccine basically consists of proteins and lipids, salt, water, and chemicals to maintain pH. None of these materials react with magnets.
Meanwhile, a physicist from the United States’ High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Eric Palm, said that the needle size for injecting vaccines is very small. Even if there is a magnetic content, the level will be too low to be able to attract metal on the surface of the skin.
2. More likely sweat effect
Quoted from LiveScience, gecko skin researcher Elmar Kroner from Germany said that the skin that sweats a lot tends to be sticky. Sweat makes the skin less elastic, and elasticity affects stickiness.
“Sweat has a crucial function. The wetter the skin, the more its mechanical properties change. The softer the skin becomes, and this reduces the elastically stored energy, and again makes it stickier,” says Kroner.
3. Or use certain tricks trik
Actually no need for any tricks. As a child, many people played with sticking a coin to the forehead, and it would stick when the skin sweated. Even if the sweat isn’t sticky enough, a person can use a piece of masking tape to make it more sticky.
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The COVID-19 vaccine formula contains a microchip that is widely used to scare people away from getting the vaccine. Photo: AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit– |
4. Some are just jokes
Emily, one of the creators of the ‘magnetic vaccine’ video in a BBC show, admitted that she made the ‘magnetic challenge’ video as a joke. He first licked the magnet before attaching it to the arm of the vaccine injection. He did not expect the video to be uploaded to anti-vaccine forums, and then used to scare.
5. Try this method to be sure
Long before there was a COVID-19 vaccine, stories about the ‘magnetic man’ had actually been widely circulated. One of the phenomenal ones is a Serbian boy named Bodgan, whose skin can hold spoons and other metal utensils.
But details in a video reveal that what Bodgan is experiencing is not magnetized skin. When he sticks the remote control and it sticks to his skin, it can be ascertained that it is not a magnetic effect. Is the remote made of plastic?
Benjamin Radford, an editor of the Skeptical Inquirer magazine, offers another way to prove the existence of a magnetic effect by attaching a compass. If it really sticks because of the magnetic effect, then the compass needle is no longer pointing north-south but towards the nearest magnetic field.
But if you keep pointing north-south, it’s certainmagnetic vaccine containers‘ it’s actually just the effect of sticky sweat.
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