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Kary Mullis

4 minute video

Audience question: “How do they misuse PCR to estimate all these supposed free, viral RNAs that may or may not be there?” 

Mullis: “… I don’t think you can misuse PCR… With PCR, if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody. It starts making you believe in the sort of Buddhist notion that everything is contained in everything else. Because if you can amplify one single molecule up to something that you can really measure, which PCR can do, there are just very few molecules that you don’t have at least one single one of in your body… 

It [PCR] tells you something about nature and what’s there. It allows you to take a very miniscule amount of anything and make it measurable…

PCR is just a process that’s used to make a whole lot of something out of something. It doesn’t tell you that you’re sick, and it doesn’t tell you that the thing you ended up with was going to hurt you, or anything like that.” 

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clinical cases,COVID-19,polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing issues