Despite attempts to change his behavior in conflict situations, Linus Torvalds did not restrain himself and reacted rather harshly to the obscurantism of the anti-vaccinator, who tried to refer to conspiracy theory and arguments that did not correspond to scientific notion when discussing vaccination against COVID-19 in the context of the upcoming conference of developers of the Linux kernel ( The conference was initially decided to be held online, as it was last year, but the possibility of revising this decision in the event of an increase in the proportion of the vaccinated population was considered).
Linus "politely" asked the commentator to keep his opinions to himself ("SHUT THE HELL UP"), not to mislead people and not to quote pseudoscientific nonsense. According to Linus, attempts to broadcast "idiotic lies" about vaccinations ("idiotic lies") only show the participant's lack of education or a tendency to take the word of unsubstantiated misinformation from charlatans who themselves do not know what they are talking about. In order not to be unfounded, Linus showed in sufficient detail what is the typical misconception of those who believe that an mRNA-based vaccine can change human DNA.
Source: opennet.ru