PCR Inventor, Dr. Kary Mullis Explains Why His PCR Technique Cannot Be Used to Detect Viruses

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HIGHLIGHTS:

• “PCR for diagnosis is a big problem. When you have to amplify it these huge numbers of time, it’s going to generate massive amounts of false positives. Again, I’m skeptical that a PCR test is ever true.”
• “PCR is separate from that, it’s just a process that’s used to make a whole lot of something out of something. That’s what it is. It doesn’t tell you that you’re sick, and it doesn’t tell you that the thing you ended up with really was going to hurt you or anything like that.”

TRANSCRIPT:

Question: (Is it possible to) misuse PCR to estimate all these supposed free viral RNAs that may or may not be there?

Kary Mullis: I think “misuse PCR” is not quite (the right question) – I don’t think you can misuse PCR (however) the results, the interpretation of it, you see, if you can say … if they could find this virus in you at all — and 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. If you can amplify one single molecule up to something that you can really measure — which PCR can do — then, there’s just very few molecules that you don’t have at least one single one of them in your body. So that could be thought of a misuse of it, to claim that it is meaningful (if you amplify it too much — note, Dr. Reiner Fuellmich has stated that the test amplifies the specimen 45 times and is beyond the limit of 35 times which is considered the threshold of accuracy).

Kary Mullis: There is very little of what they call HIV … the measurement for it is not exact at all. It’s not as good as our measurement for things like apples. An apple is an apple. You know, you can get something that … if you have enough things that kind of look like an apple and you stick them all together, you might look like an apple. And HIV is like that. Those tests are all based on things that are invisible and the results are inferred, in a sense. PCR is separate from that, it’s just a process that’s used to make a whole lot of something out of something. That’s what it is. It doesn’t tell you that you’re sick, and it doesn’t tell you that the thing you ended up with really was going to hurt you or anything like that.

— Kary Mullis, Nobel Chemistry Prize Winner, Inventor of the PCR Test

Transcript Source: Health Science Report

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