<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The word mRNA has been so thoroughly vandalized by... > The word mRNA has been so thoroughly vandalized by people who do not understand molecular biology that they hear it and imagine a political object instead of one of the fundamental information systems of life. Messenger RNA is cellular instruction traffic. Learning to write that traffic means learning to ask cells to manufacture particular proteins for particular purposes. Reducing an entire programmable therapeutic platform to whatever somebody argued about during COVID is like reducing electricity to one toaster you disliked. **Source:** [[articles/AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic|AI-Tech Doomerism, Anti-Science Panic, those Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The word mRNA has been so thoroughly vandalized by people who do not understand molecular biology that they hear it and imagine a political object instead of one of the fundamental information systems of life. Messenger RNA is cellular instruction traffic. Learning to write that traffic means learning to ask cells to manufacture particular proteins for particular purposes. Reducing an entire programmable therapeutic platform to whatever somebody argued about during COVID is like reducing electricity to one toaster you disliked.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-word-mrna-thoroughly-electricity-toaster-disliked ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->