Kary Mullis inventor of PCR claims PCR test isn't designed to diagnose disease.

[Chonebox]

PCR Test inventor Kary Mullis got censored on almost every social media for the truth

Dr Kary B. Mullis, La Jolla, California, U.S.A., for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method,
Press release: The 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - NobelPrize.org

 

[Hypnalis]

Thanks for the link (impeccable source

It's another way to look at the sensitivity issue:
DNA from some potentially dangerous organism doesn't mean you're ill due to that organism (and/or virus - not sure how they're classified).

PCR tests are so sensitive they can pick up levels that are far too low to cause any problems.
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This might e.g. cause misuse of DNA data in criminal cases. For example anyone close to you on a train, bus, elevator, corridor, etc could leave some DNA on you or your clothing by brushing past you, or even by exhaling in the same space.

So if Law Enforcement is allowed to use "any amount of DNA on a victim" as justification for assuming the person is a genuine suspect (and e.g. detain, arrest, or formally interrogate them), "false positive" are inevitable.

Personally I've never voluntarily given a DNA sample for anything and never will (because some version of this has been inevitable for many years).

But for many medical services they take bio samples, and these all have some identifiable DNA in them. So it's become effectively impossible to avoid providing a reference sample.

FYI the computer tech to do things like this anonymously has been around for decades, and the infrastructure would be far cheaper than modern payment-card processing (you'd only need a tiny fraction f the number of endpoints).

Sadly nobody cares about this except IT people (who understand the risks and the ways to resolve them), and it's not going to become politically relevant any time soon.

 

[Chonebox]

Thanks for the link (impeccable source

It's another way to look at the sensitivity issue:
DNA from some potentially dangerous organism doesn't mean you're ill due to that organism (and/or virus - not sure how they're classified).

PCR tests are so sensitive they can pick up levels that are far too low to cause any problems.
:
:
This might e.g. cause misuse of DNA data in criminal cases. For example anyone close to you on a train, bus, elevator, corridor, etc could leave some DNA on you or your clothing by brushing past you, or even by exhaling in the same space.

So if Law Enforcement is allowed to use "any amount of DNA on a victim" as justification for assuming the person is a genuine suspect (and e.g. detain, arrest, or formally interrogate them), "false positive" are inevitable.

Personally I've never voluntarily given a DNA sample for anything and never will (because some version of this has been inevitable for many years).

But for many medical services they take bio samples, and these all have some identifiable DNA in them. So it's become effectively impossible to avoid providing a reference sample.

FYI the computer tech to do things like this anonymously has been around for decades, and the infrastructure would be far cheaper than modern payment-card processing (you'd only need a tiny fraction f the number of endpoints).

Sadly nobody cares about this except IT people (who understand the risks and the ways to resolve them), and it's not going to become politically relevant any time soon.

With the PCR you can find anything with it. It doesn't mean anything useful.

 

[Mary Terry]

Thanks for the link (impeccable source

It's another way to look at the sensitivity issue:
DNA from some potentially dangerous organism doesn't mean you're ill due to that organism (and/or virus - not sure how they're classified).

PCR tests are so sensitive they can pick up levels that are far too low to cause any problems.
:
:
This might e.g. cause misuse of DNA data in criminal cases. For example anyone close to you on a train, bus, elevator, corridor, etc could leave some DNA on you or your clothing by brushing past you, or even by exhaling in the same space.

So if Law Enforcement is allowed to use "any amount of DNA on a victim" as justification for assuming the person is a genuine suspect (and e.g. detain, arrest, or formally interrogate them), "false positive" are inevitable.

Personally I've never voluntarily given a DNA sample for anything and never will (because some version of this has been inevitable for many years).

But for many medical services they take bio samples, and these all have some identifiable DNA in them. So it's become effectively impossible to avoid providing a reference sample.

FYI the computer tech to do things like this anonymously has been around for decades, and the infrastructure would be far cheaper than modern payment-card processing (you'd only need a tiny fraction f the number of endpoints).

Sadly nobody cares about this except IT people (who understand the risks and the ways to resolve them), and it's not going to become politically relevant any time soon.

Criminal defense attorneys routinely present expert witnesses to attack the veracity and significance of DNA evidence offered by the prosecution.

 

[Masked Man]

I'm not understanding the video but I'm assuming this is when he's gone off and started believing in things like astrology and so forth.

Because I work on a hospital campus, one of our goals is the protection of our patients, who very often are immunocompromised.

During the COVID outbreak, we used the PCR tests as a diagnostic tool. When someone, whether a patient or an employee, displayed either respiratory or gastrointestinal symptoms of illness, we used the PCR tests as part of infection prevention. There are many viruses that cause a person to display these symptoms but by using the PCR test, we were able to identify which virus we were most likely dealing with (influenza or COVID-19) and then move to contain and limit its spread.

There is no tool that is perfect, but as with most everything else in medical science, it works pretty darn good.