vaccines against COVID-19 slogs on, an Israeli rabbi has made headlines for warning his followers not to get it. The reason: he believes it will make them gay.Israeli Rabbi Daniel Asor took to the internet last weekend to warn his listeners “any vaccine made using an embryonic substrate, and we have evidence of this, causes opposite tendencies.” The embryonic substrate Asor refers to an element of the new vaccine used to program immune response in patients.Related: Here’s why COVID-19 has a vaccine after 1 year and HIV doesn’t after nearly 40 yearsAs Israel Hayom reports, Asor’s assertion has no basis in fact.
The newspaper also reports that this isn’t the first time Asor has made outlandish claims about vaccines or COVID-19. Asor has also.