Peter McCullough's Preprint Floats Unproven Vaccine Link To Tick Allergy
The Aug. 19 Zenodo preprint suggests vaccine gelatin might prime the allergic reaction tick bites trigger, calling it unproven.
- Preprint posted Aug. 19, 2026 to Zenodo credits the McCullough Foundation and The Wellness Company.
- Alpha-gal syndrome is a red meat allergy caused by lone star tick saliva, not a virus.
- Authors call the gelatin-to-allergy connection 'plausible but unproven,' short of actual proof.
Why it matters: A hypothesis its own authors call unproven does not become fact because a headline drops the caveat.
McCullough Foundation/Wellness Company preprint, Zenodo ↗ · Sep 15, 20269/15/26