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Mass Testing: The Fatal Conceit

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Posted By: earlybird, 4/24/2022 11:54:39 AM

Afew decades ago, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) robots, DNA sequencers, and high-speed computers fostered and accompanied quite a scientific revolution in virology. Acknowledging this radical change, some illustrious scholars alerted their scientific community on a hazardous drift away from investigating the viral ecology, pathogenesis, and disease potential, along with viral identification by testing. “In summary”, wrote Calisher and al. (2001), remarkable advances in molecular genetics have allowed rapid and precise identifications of viruses and of their genomes; however, such characterizations thus far can provide only limited information about the phenotype and disease potential of a virus.

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The inventor of the PCR test said virtually the same thing.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: earlybird 4/24/2022 12:08:17 PM (No. 1136955)
Calisher, in an interview: Thanks to techniques such as PCR and sequencing, diagnostic labs everywhere can perform high -sensitivity tests for a battery of viruses in a matter of hours. […] Although all that is terrific, says Calisher, a string of DNA letters in a data bank tells little or nothing about how a virus multiplies, which animals carry it, how it makes people sick, or whether antibodies to other viruses might protect against it. Just studying sequences, Calisher says, is “like trying to say whether somebody has bad breath by looking at his fingerprint.”
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Reply 2 - Posted by: earlybird 4/24/2022 12:11:10 PM (No. 1136959)
(hit submit too soon) Calisher, in 2001, was of course prophetic. An interesting read. The mass testing is not about “science”.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: bamboozle 4/24/2022 12:13:47 PM (No. 1136962)
Mass testing is about data collection. Science is about studying what the data means. Medicine is about treating/preventing what the virus described in part by the data causes to people.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 4/24/2022 12:40:06 PM (No. 1136989)
FTA, they claim "....rapid and precise identifications of viruses". Yeah, well with a really PROPERLY DONE PCR test, this can be correct. But when the lying pukes in charge of making the CDC test
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 4/24/2022 12:41:03 PM (No. 1136990)
And of course, Epoch Times doesn't let us read their stories unless we subscribe. And yet, this poster continues to post these subscription only stories.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: czechlist 4/24/2022 12:52:04 PM (No. 1137001)
Wife and daughter ( both fully vaccinated) were very ill in January. Wife tested - daughter +. I (unvaccinated) ministered to them but never became ill. ???? Like "climate change" there are too many variables involved to reach any conclusion by which national or planetary remedies should be instituted. Not a single Earth Day "expert's" prediction / projection has been realized after 52 years. Kary Mullis who shared the Nobel prize for inventing PCR insisted it was a research technique, not a diagnostic tool.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 4/24/2022 1:13:23 PM (No. 1137015)
Stopping runaway italics.
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