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.