Showing posts with label Kary Mullis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kary Mullis. Show all posts

Sunday, June 16, 2024

KARY MULLIS: The immune system's just a whole bunch of hungry cells, basically, that are not allowed to eat anything they find. They're only allowed to eat it if it's got a bunch of antibodies on it

Kary Mullis speaking at a Google Fireside Chat in 2010: "[T]he immune system deals with viruses...it deals with things like, say, influenza—when it causes your cells to start making influenza viruses—it puts a lot of things on the surfaces of those cells that wouldn't normally be there, that the virus wants to put there, because it makes it easier for it to do its stuff inside the cell. That's what you use as a target." "You say any cell that's been co-opted by influenza is going to have these little things called M2e, which is a little target that we can simulate with like a nonapeptide. So...because it makes these little holes in cells and...in order to do that, it has to put some of its proteins on there. And they're therefore susceptible to the immune system. So we just redirect an immunity to eat those cells." "The immune system's just a whole bunch of hungry cells, basically, that are not allowed to eat anything they find. They're only allowed to eat it if it's got a bunch of antibodies on it—that means this is for eating purposes here . . . so that keeps them from eating other things."

"So we put those antibodies on there because we found out from the chemists what the flu puts on there, what's different about those cells now. So you don't actually kill the virus itself, you actually kill the cells that make the virus." 

Sunday, November 5, 2023

"GLOBAL WARMING: THIS IS ONE OF THOSE COOL THINGS WHERE THERE IS NOT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE."

Thursday, March 18, 2021

"a woman who got the Spanish Flu still showed immunity 90 years later."

Thanks to Don Boudreaux.  

[00:21Shane Crotty, Ph.D., Virologist at La Jolla Institute for Immunology in La Jolla, CA concludes from his experiments that the amount of immune memory gained from natural infection would likely prevent the vast majority of people from getting hospitalized, disease, severe disease for many years.  In this study, which was published in Science, Dr. Crotty, showed that antibody levels stayed relatively constant with only modest declines within 6 to 8 months, Dr. Crotty reported notably that Memory B cells, specific for the spike protein, or RBD, were detected in almost all COVID-19 cases with no apparent half-life with 5 to 8 months after infection.  In other words, Dr. Crotty found significant evidence of long-term immunity after COVID infection.  Furthermore, Dr. Crotty noted that B-cell memory to some other infections has observed for sixty-plus years after smallpox vaccination or even 90 years with natural infection with influenza.  That was a woman who got the Spanish Flu and still showed immunity 90 years later.  So, rather than being pessimistic toward people gaining immunity after they’ve had COVID or had a vaccine, studies argue for significant optimism.  In fact, there have been no scientific studies arguing or proving that infection with COVID does not create immunity.  There've been no studies of significant numbers of re-infections of the 30 million Americans who've had COVID.  Only a handful of infections have been discovered.  In fact, the New York Times reported last fall that more than 38 million at the time worldwide had been infected with the Coronavirus and, as of that date, fewer than 5 of these cases had been confirmed by scientists to be reinfection.  Scientists interviewed for the article concluded, "In most cases, a second bout with the virus produced milder symptoms or none at all."  Given that no scientific studies have shown significant numbers of reinfection or patients previously infected or previously vaccinated, what specific studies do you cite to argue that the public should be wearing masks well into 2022? [2:27]

Find more on Shane Crotty, Ph.D., here.

If you want a little insight into Fauci's credibility, give a listen to what Kary Mullis, the inventor of the PCR test, said about Anthony Fauci.  

Sunday, November 1, 2020

THE PCR TEST FIASCO

Kevin McKernan is an expert in PCR testing.  This comes from the Tom Woods Show, Episode 1765, "The PCR Testing Fiasco."  From Tom's show notes, he introduces McKernan this way: 

In 2000 Kevin founded Agencourt Biosciences Corporation, which specialized in manufacturing DNA and RNA purification technology known as SPRI. It became the largest private DNA sequencing company at its time and received NHGRI grants to become their fifth genome center.

Beckman Coulter acquired Agencourt in 2005 and jointly spun out Agencourt Personal Genomics, which invented and commercialized the SOLiD Sequencer. Applied Biosystems acquired ApG in 2006.

After five years with Applied Biosystems/Life tech, Kevin left to start Medicinal Genomics and Courtagen Life Sciences.

Courtagen was a high complexity CLIA lab that performed clinical diagnostic testing using PCR and sequencing.

Medicinal Genomics is a cannabis Genomics company that builds Viral and microbial PCR assays for the cannabis field.

Read the original article at TomWoods.com. http://tomwoods.com/ep-1765-the-pcr-testing-fiasco/

McKernan worked at MIT on the human genome project from 1996 to 2000.  

Kary Mullis was the inventor of the PCR Test but died last year.  His criticism of the PCR tests revolved around the controversy as to whether or not HIV was the only virus involved in AIDS.  

New York Times article, "Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive.  Maybe It Shouldn't Be."  

The testing was so sensitive that for all practical purposes, the testing was not useful for anything.  

The news is speaking about this problem like in earthquakes while hiding the Richter Scale.  Hard to have a coherent discussion because the values in these tests aren't being shared.  They're turning what is a very quantitative test into a plus, minus answer.  That's the biggest problem we've got.  We've got to get the CQ or the Cycle Threshold values public.

Incredibly valuable test because you can measure single molecules or a million molecules with the same test.  But they're hiding these values.