A whistleblowing vaccine expert says researchers claiming to have found a jab for koalas with deadly chlamydia made a dumbfounding mistake that completely undermines their findings. A vaccine produced by University of Sunshine Coast microbiologist Professor Peter Timms was called historic last year by federal environment minister Murray Watt, and widely celebrated as a cure to one of the endangered species’ biggest threats. But the claims have long felt wrong to University of Queensland molecular virologist Professor Keith Chappell, who played key role in establishing the Molecular Clamp vaccine technology to fight COVID-19. Chlaymdia is one of the many threats Australia’s dwindling koala population faces. Getty “I saw Professor Timms speak in 2023 and that sort of triggered some alarms for me from that very first time present because the claims he was making were not validated by the data,” Chappell said.…