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PCR test creator Kary B. Mullis

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1993/mullis/facts/

He died in 2019 – Before Covid took over.

Prize motivation: "for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method."

An organism\'s genome is stored inside DNA molecules, but analyzing this genetic information requires quite a large amount of DNA. In 1985, Kary Mullis invented the process known as polymerase chain reaction (PCR), in which a small amount of DNA can be copied in large quantities over a short period of time. By applying heat, the DNA molecule\'s two strands are separated and the DNA building blocks that have been added are bonded to each strand. With the help of the enzyme DNA polymerase, new DNA chains are formed and the process can then be repeated. PCR has been of major importance in both medical research and forensic science.

Another article discussing PCR and HIV

Kary Mullis, who won the Nobel Prize in Science for inventing the PCR, is thoroughly convinced that HIV is not the cause of "AIDS". With regard to the viral load tests, which attempt to use PCR for counting viruses, Mullis has stated: "Quantitative PCR is an oxymoron." PCR is intended to identify substances qualitatively, but by its very nature is unsuited for estimating numbers. Although there is a common misimpression that the viral load tests actually count the number of viruses in the blood, these tests cannot detect free, infectious viruses at all; they can only detect proteins that are believed, in some cases wrongly, to be unique to HIV. The tests can detect genetic sequences of viruses, but not viruses themselves.

What PCR does is to select a genetic sequence and then amplify it enormously. It can accomplish the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack; it can amplify that needle into a haystack. Like an electronically amplified antenna, PCR greatly amplifies the signal, but it also greatly amplifies the noise. Since the amplification is exponential, the slightest error in measurement, the slightest contamination, can result in errors of many orders of magnitude.

To make an analogy: using the viral load tests to gauge viral activity would be like finding a few fingernail clippings; amplifying the fingernail clippings into a small mountain of fingernail clippings mixed in with other junk; and then having an "expert" come along and interpret the pile as representing a platoon of soldiers, fully armed and ready for battle.

In short, the viral load tests are a scam. When molecular biologists Peter Duesberg and Harvey Bialy analyzed the 1995 Ho and Wei papers (Nature 373) that launched the whole viral load bandwagon, they found that estimates of free virus had been overestimated by several orders of magnitude. In the Wei study, 100,000 so-called "plasma viral RNA" units really amounted to less than 2 infectious viruses per milliliter of plasma. And in the Ho study, 10,000 "plasma virions" corresponded to less than one infectious virus. Duesberg and Bialy concluded, "there is no evidence for infectious virus in Wei et al.'s and Ho et al.'s patients." (Duesberg 1996a)

http://www.virusmyth.org/aids/hiv/jlprotease.htm

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Mullis and Fauci: Science vs authority

David Knight reported in Roundtablereport.com in December last year on the fiery quarrel between Nobel laureate Kary Mullis and the immunologist Anthony Fauci.

Mullis died at the age of 74 in August 2019, but prior to his death, he had a lot of interactions with Fauci.

He went to war with Fauci for misusing his PCR test. Mullis and other scientists said Fauci was magnifying the retrovirus HIV using PCR to “prove” it was the cause of AIDS. Mullis was furious that Fauci refused to debate him on science but argued from authority.

Following are David Knight’s comments:

“Does this all sound familiar? It’s another reason why this Covid ‘novel’ was not credible from the beginning. In the past, Fauci, CDC, etc. had abused test methods many times to push pandemics and pharmaceuticals.

“‘The strategy for locking us down again is based on these fraudulent tests. The magnified tests that don’t measure the quantity of anything. It’s the same strategy Fauci used to make a lot of money for a lot of people. It’s not just the PCR test, all these rapid tests, every one of them, they’re all non-quantitative tests. There’s no such thing as a non-quantitative test, it’s a lie, an obvious fraud. We’re locking everybody down over brainless lies. The only reason they were able to get away with this is because they’ve turned us into an idiocracy, that was the whole point of the government schools.’

“[Mullis] always said you couldn’t use [PCR] to diagnose a disease but in one interview he went after Fauci and said what a liar he is.”

“Mullis said: ‘These guys like Fauci get up there and start talking to me, you know, he doesn’t know anything really about anything, and I’d say that to his face. Nothing. The man thinks you can take a blood sample and stick it in an electron microscope and if it’s got a virus in there you’d know it. He doesn’t understand electron microscopy, and he doesn’t understand medicine, and he shouldn’t be in the position he’s in. Most of those guys up there on the top are just total administrative people, and they don’t know anything about what’s going on at the bottom. Those guys have an agenda, which is not what we would like them to have, being that we pay for them to take care of our health in some way. They’ve got a personal kind of agenda, they make up their own rules, they change them as they go. And Tony Fauci doesn’t mind going on television in front of the people who pay his salary and lie directly into the camera.’

“‘Fauci didn’t want to have the debate because he only argues from authority. Mullis didn’t believe that there was a connection between HIV and AIDS and said they’re making this connection by misusing his test. He said we all have retroviruses and they’re, literally, blowing this way out of proportion. They’re amplifying it a trillion times, that’s what a PCR cycle of 40 does. The FDA requires PCR testing of Covid to be 40 CT (cycle threshold).’

PCR and HIV/AIDS

“‘Mullis didn’t believe that AIDS was caused by HIV, partly because it was barely detectable in AIDS patients. When PCR was used, they were able to see viral particles in quantities they couldn’t see before.’

“Farber reports: ‘Mullis himself was unimpressed. ‘PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV,’ Mullis told Spin in 1992, ‘and some of those people came down with symptoms of AIDS. But that doesn’t begin even to answer the question — Does HIV cause it?’

“Does that sound familiar? They misuse the PCR test and all of a sudden we’ve got cases everywhere. They did a complete media blackout of the HIV debate for over 7 years. Just like with vaccines right now.

“Remember that the first thing Fauci did as director of the NIH was to make sure that Big Pharma had legal immunity for any damage from vaccines. And remember, this was less than 10 years after we’d been rushed into a swine flu vaccine over a fake pandemic and a lot of people were injured by it. That was the reason he had to do it, it had nothing to do with science, it’s all about politics and money.

“But Fauci also took the reins of NIH’s infectious diseases as AIDS/HIV was pushed to the front by him and by media.

“Mullis said: ‘The mystery of [AIDS] has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it. You take any other virus, and you spend $2 billion, and you can make up some great mysteries about it too.’

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https://www.manilatimes.net/2021/03/02/opinion/columnists/topanalysis/stories-of-friendship-and-the-quarrels-that-ended-them/846623