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Cathleen's avatar

Wasn't Kary Mullis the inventor of the PCR test? He was a fierce critic of Anthony Fauci. And he stated emphatically that no infection or illness can be accurately diagnosed with the PCR-RT.

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Norman J Pieniazek's avatar

Yes, Kary Mullis got the Nobel Prize for developing the ideas behind the technique of Polymerase Chain Reaction. I knew him and Fauci. Dr. Mullis never discussed the RT-qPCR method used for diagnosis of the Wuhan virus.

By the way, I created and was the head of the CDC Laboratory of Molecular Reference Diagnosis. My papers were quoted over 9,000 times, see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wKIBcKEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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Cathleen's avatar

Congrats on your paper, that's quite an impressive list.

I believe Dr. Mullis died (somewhat mysteriously) in Aug, 2019, before the wuhan "virus".

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Norman J Pieniazek's avatar

His health was not in really good. He also experimented with various drugs. I saw him last time at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, possibly in Atlanta, before I retired in 2013.

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