by Rhoda Wilson, Expose News:
There has been a shift in medical practices from examining patients for illness to relying on lab tests for diagnosis. One of the tests used is the PCR test and it is likely to be used to diagnose mpox or monkeypox “cases” as it was with covid.
Although it is not the case in Africa, at least not yet, the World Economic Forum noted in 2022 referring to “cases diagnosed” outside of Africa: “All individuals who have tested positive have had the infection confirmed by a PCR test.” And the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) notes: “Laboratory confirmation of mpox is done by testing skin lesion material by PCR.”
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Using PCR tests for identifying and diagnosing monkeypox, as well as other illnesses, is not accurate or reliable. It is not meant to be used as a diagnostic tool; it does not provide black-and-white results, yes or no answers. PCR detects fragments of genetic material rather than viable viruses or infections.
During the covid era, the number of “cases” was inflated not only by the number of false positives but by the number of people being tested. As the number of people being tested increased, so did the number of “cases.” Are they going to do the same with mpox?
he following is the article ‘What is really going on with monkeypox? Part 3’ originally published by the Gold Report. It is the third in a series. At the time of writing the Gold Report had not yet published Part 4. We will publish it after it has been made available. You can read Part 1 HERE and Part 2 HERE.
How Do We Know It’s Monkeypox?
As the Our World in Data graphs showed in Part 2 of this series, there are far fewer confirmed cases of, and deaths from, monkeypox worldwide, and in the Democratic Republic of Congo (“DRC”), than the WHO has claimed. But how were “confirmed cases” confirmed? How sure can we be that even those really are confirmations of monkeypox? The WHO confirms cases of monkeypox (or mpox as it is now being called) by PCR (polymerase chain reaction) testing, a diagnostic tool used for many illnesses, not just covid-19.
PCR Revisited
Not a “test”
The late Kary Mullis (who died in August 2019 right before covid-19 was declared) invented PCR to amplify DNA for study; he was very upset that it was being used to diagnose viral (HIV) infection. Mullis was adamant, as is evident in the clip below, that it is not a diagnostic tool and not meant for testing, since “it doesn’t tell you that you’re sick and it doesn’t tell you that the thing you ended up with really was going to hurt you or anything like that.” In fact, Mullis said, with PCR you can find almost anything in anybody.
With PCR, if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody. It starts making you believe in the sort of Buddhist notion that everything is contained in everything else, right?? I mean, because if you can amplify one single molecule up to something that you can really measure, which PCR can do, then there’s just very few molecules that you don’t have at least one single one of them in your body.
No black-and-white results
Principia Scientific author John Sullivan in an article about the use of the PCR test for diagnosing covid-19, quotes Canadian researcher David Crowe, who holds degrees in biology and mathematics, regarding the PCR test:
“The first thing to know is that the test is not binary,” he said. “In fact, I don’t think there are any tests for infectious disease that are positive or negative. What they do is they take some kind of a continuum and they arbitrarily say this point is the difference between positive and negative.”
“That’s so important. I think people envision it as one of two things: Positive or negative, like a pregnancy test. You ‘have it’ or you don’t.”
“PCR is really a manufacturing technique,” Crowe explained. “You start with one molecule. You start with a small amount of DNA and on each cycle the amount doubles, which doesn’t sound like that much, but if you, if you double 30 times, you get approximately a billion times more material than you started with. So as a manufacturing technique, it’s great… This is where it gets wild.
… So, if you cut off at 20, everybody would be negative. If you cut off a 50, you might have everybody positive.”
This means that a PCR test, unlike a pregnancy test, doesn’t give you a yes or no answer and there is no honest way of using it to diagnose disease.
Genetic material, not viruses
Michale Thau, writing for Red State, noted that the PCR tests do not detect viruses but fragments of “dead” genetic material.
But two factors are responsible for creating the massive unreliability of PCR testing …
1. The bits of genetic material whose amount is being amplified ARE NOT viruses. They’re just small segments of inert genetic material found inside a virus’s shell. The PCR test doesn’t detect “live” viruses, at best it only detects their “dead remains.”
2. The detection of viral remains involves massively amplifying the amount in the original sample by running it through successive PCR cycles. And nothing about the PCR test itself will tell you if there was actually any “live” virus in the original sample. (Emphases added.)
Skewed results
Dr. Nick Delgado, who Sullivan quoted regarding false positive PCR test results, said it’s not just a matter of false positives but the number of people tested. The more people tested, the more positives (which is why it appeared that more people were getting ill).
But the numbers aren’t just skewed by false positives, they are also skewed by how many people are offered the test and what condition they are in. For example, during the first few weeks of the “pandemic,” tests were scarce. As they became more widely available of course the number of infections accounted for increased as well, and false-positive results further increased those numbers.”
The late journalist and author Allan C. Weisbecker reposted (an edited and more readable) article by UncoverDC questioning the purpose of the PCR test. In author Celia Farber’s conversation with Dr. David Rasnick, she quoted him as saying that now medicine is all based on lab tests but it used to be that you would examine the patients first, listening to their lungs. By the time the patient has symptoms, he said, thirty per cent of the infectious cells are dead and it’s dead cells that generate symptoms.
