“We accept the proclamations of scientists in their lab coats with the same faith once reserved for priests … They don’t have to be justifying their existence by scaring us out of our wits.”
-Kary Mullis
Kary Mullis, who died in 2019, won the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his invention of the PCR process, which he made clear was never intended to be used as a diagnostic test. Nonetheless, PCR has been used to scare the world into believing that a new virus is running rampant. It is true that, if you are looking for a certain DNA sequence, PCR will find it (or not). However, to prove that such a snippet of DNA is related to a virus, a bacteria, a human, or even a papaya, is another story completely.
Nonetheless, PCR became instrumental in providing a basis for the lockdowns that have since plagued the world. The Corman-Drosten report was used as the scientific basis for testing and the subsequent lockdowns. The paper describes using PCR to test for the supposed new virus. However, the paper admits that their aim was “to develop and deploy robust diagnostic methodology for use in public health laboratory settings without having virus material available.”
This excerpt form Mullis’s book, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, is a good indicator of how Mullis would have derided such scientific chicanery, “Very little experimental verification has been done to support important societal issues … Nor does it have to be done before public policy decisions are made. It only needs to be convincing to the misinformed voter. Some of the big truths voters have accepted have little or no scientific basis. And these include the belief that AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, the belief that fossil fuel emissions are causing global warming, and the belief that the release of chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere has created a hole in the ozone layer … People believe these things and a slew of others, not because they have seen proof but because they are ingenuous: they have faith.”
Mullis’s position on HIV is an excellent indicator of what he might have thought about the proposition that a new virus is now causing a new disease. He would say show us the proof. PCR is not proof of a virus, he would probably say, especially not when you had no virus available as a reference in making the test and had no virus as a gold standard against which to prove the test was working. He would tell the public not to believe these proclamations just because they are made by scientists and are repeated incessantly.
Mullis tells the story about how he changed from accepting the HIV / AIDS hypothesis to realizing there was no proof of it. Mullis had written the statement “HIV is the probable cause of AIDS” in a report for a government agency. He realized he had never seen the scientific paper that established that fact, so he went searching.
Computer searches showed no such articles. He asked colleagues at conferences with no luck. At one conference he saw Luc Montagnier, one of the two scientists that shared the credit for the discovery of HIV, and still did not receive a suitable answer. “After ten or fifteen meetings over a couple years, I was getting pretty upset when no one could cite the reference. I didn’t like the ugly conclusion that was forming in my mind: The entire campaign against a disease increasingly regarded as a twentieth century Black Plague was based on a hypothesis whose origins no one could recall.”
Eventually, he found the work of Peter Duesberg and realized why he couldn’t find the article proving that HIV was the cause of AIDS – because such an article did not exist. Duesberg went on to systemically demolish the HIV / AIDS hypothesis.
With his understanding of the lack of evidence backing the HIV / AIDS hypothesis and his intimate knowledge of PCR, he probably would have pointed out the many parallels between the HIV / AIDS theory and the Sars-Cov-2 / Covid theory, besides the lack of evidence for either of them. For instance, AIDS and Covid are both umbrella diagnoses. AIDS became the scary monster because many other diseases were being reclassified as AIDS if patients were found to be HIV-positive. Similarly, Covid is inclusive of what previously would have been classified as flu, pneumonia and other diseases because of CDC directives as to how to code cases and deaths. (CDC admits that only 6% of Covid deaths are Covid-only deaths and the remaining 94% of Covid deaths have an average of over three co-morbidities).
Amongst the other parallels are the maligning of simple interventions in favor of expensive and dangerous interventions. In the case of AIDS, many HIV-positive people took the drug AZT (in many cases those without symptoms took it prophylactically). AZT was found to be toxic and to cause the very symptoms associated with AIDS. Many Covid patients received expensive medications such as Remdesivir and some were put on ventilators, an expensive treatment that often led to death.
Other parallels include: Dr. Fauci’s prominent role in both the AIDS and Covid era; ignoring preventative measures while emphasizing expensive high-tech medicine; quickly coming to a consensus on the cause of the “disease”; and no use of Koch’s postulates to prove causation of a disease by a microbe.
Mullis predicts that “Years from now, people looking back at us will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find the the leaders who excommunicated Galileo. Science as it is practiced today is largely not science at all. What people call science is probably pretty similar to what people called science in 1634. Galileo was told to recant his beliefs or be excommunicated. People who refuse to accept the commandments of the AIDS establishment are basically told the same thing. “If you don’t accept what we say, you’re out.’”
Today we see videos censored from YouTube, social media accounts being frozen and other means to enforce the same rules with respect to Covid: “If you don’t accept what we say, you’re out.”
On top of that we see that even many insiders are telling us we can’t believe the science: “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine,” says Dr. Marcia Angell.
As a Nobel prize winner Mullis had once been the ultimate science insider. But he became a great skeptic of science. Science should not be done by press conference or by consensus. Or, as he might put it: “It’s not what somebody believes, it’s experimental proof that counts. And those guys don’t have that.”
Here are a few more interesting quotes from Dancing Naked in the Mind Field.
Mullis on government:
“It would be naive to think that individuals working in government agencies charged with taking care of us, or even in nonprofit foundations with lofty names, are altruistic towards us,” say Mullis. He credits the constitution for defining a system in which three parallel bodies balance each other out as having worked pretty well thus far. However, “what has happened in this century is that the world has gotten increasingly complex. Many functions of government have spread into highly technical areas that are impossible for concerned outsiders to monitor continually.”
He gives an example, “When the National Institutes of Health makes an announcement through one its many spokespeople, who checks out the credibility of that statement?”
He concludes, “We have to be aware – when someone comes on the seven o’clock news with word that the global temperature is going up or that the oceans are turning into cesspools … that the media are at the mercy of the scientists who have the ability to summon them.”
Mullis on science:
“Scientists who speak out strongly about future ecological disaster and promote the notion that humans are responsible for any changes that are going on are highly suspect. Turn off the TV. Read your elementary science textbooks. You need to know what they are up to.”
Mullis on AIDS:
“I lectured about PCR at innumerable meetings. Always there were people there talking about HIV. I asked them how it was that we knew that HIV was the cause of AIDS. Everyone had the answer at home in the office in some drawer … and they would send me the papers when they got back. But I never got any papers. Nobody ever sent me the news about how AIDS was caused by HIV.”
Sources:
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
Kary Mullis for the introduction to the book “Inventing the AIDS Virus” by Peter H. Duesberg
Did Faulty Science Lead to Lockdowns? Examining the Drosten Paper
Mullis quote about there being no evidence that HIV is the cause of AIDS
Further Reading:
PCR Inventor: “It doesn’t tell you that you are sick”
The World According to Kary Mullis, #1
The World According to Kary Mullis, #2
Inventing The AIDS Virus, a book review
Only 6% of deaths are Covid-only.
See Comorbidities and other conditions