The inventor of PCR is Kary Mullis (passed away in August 2019) answers to the audience question
The inventor of PCR is Kary Mullis (passed away in August 2019) answers to the audience question:
" How do they misuse PCR to estimate these supposed free viral RNAs that may or may not be there?"
Kary's response explains the general functioning and intended use of the PCR testing technique (even if the RNA virus used as main example here is HIV, on which Mullis had done extensive research).
Kary insists that "the presence of a piece of RNA" does not mean "sick or contagious". RNA chunks can be present in our body for up to weeks. He also says that PCR is sensistive and powerful enough that a few molecules are enough to be amplified and detected by the technique. Using PCR as a diagnostic without the presence of clinical complaints is absolutely inadvisable. Therefore, in the current COVID-19 context, using PCR to diagnose Corona Virus infection is misapplication of the technique and completely inappropriate.
"Peter C Gøtzsche graduated as a Master of Science in biology and chemistry in 1974 and as a physician 1984. He is a specialist in internal medicine; worked with clinical trials and regulatory affairs in the drug industry 1975-1983, and at hospitals in Copenhagen 1984-95. With about 80 others, he co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration in 1993 (the founder is Sir Iain Chalmers), and established the Nordic Cochrane Centre the same year. He became professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis in 2010 at the University of Copenhagen and has been a member of the Cochrane Governing Board twice. He writes at Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime and founded the Institute for Scientific Freedom in 2019."
"In his 2019 book, Death of a Whistleblower and Cochrane’s Moral Collapse (FILMS: 9 March 2019, Death of a whistleblower: scientific censorship in action (23:00); 8 June 2019, Death of a Whistleblower and Cochrane’s Moral Collapse (1:06:56), transcript), Gøtzsche documents institutional corruption in one of the world’s most venerated scientific institutions. John Ioannidis, a famed professor and medical researcher at Stanford, wrote a letter to the Danish Minister of Health condemning Gøtzsche’s dismissal from the Nordic Cochrane Centre: “Peter is undoubtedly a giant, one of the greatest scientists of our times … I believe that basic respect for scientific discourse requires that you do not eliminate your opponents through administrative machinations”. Additionally, 3,500 scientists and health-care professionals signed a letter in protest of Gøtzsche’s treatment."
Quotations: https://journal.ratical.earth/2020/04/30/dr-peter-gotzsche-on-big-pharma-as-organized-crime-and-cochranes-moral-collapse/
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