Buenos Aires, November 30 (NA) -- Following the controversy generated by the anti-vaccine event in the Chamber of Deputies, where an attempt was made to prove that the Covid-19 vaccine causes 'magnetization,' science and fact-checkers came out to deny the claim. They have repeatedly confirmed during the pandemic that vaccines are safe and do not contain heavy metals or magnetic components capable of attracting magnets. The Dose: Physicist Alberto Nájera added that, even if they had magnetic material, the amount injected is too small to generate the effect on the skin. The event in Congress, pushed by Deputy Marilú Quiroz, is part of a wave of misinformation that has already been debunked globally by numerous scientific societies. The phenomenon of objects adhering to the skin is due to physics and has no relation to the content of the injections. According to what Argentine News Agency (Agencia Noticias Argentinas) learned, citing the Chequeado report prepared by journalists Rosalía Marina and Florencia Ballarino, the reason why certain objects sometimes stick to the body is 'surface tension.' Physics: María Noelia Lardizábal, a doctor in Biological Sciences, explained that this is a 'general phenomenon of the body' that occurs in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people. The effect disappears if, for example, talcum powder is used in the area. Global Consensus: The World Health Organization (WHO) and the CDC of the United States...
