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They gave Mullis the prize for the PCR in order to encourage its widespread use and validate it for the planned purpose of using it as a diagnostic tool for planned BS like HIV or Covid “ Diagnosis” even when they knew it was not nor ever could be an accurate tool for diagnosis.

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Dear Jo,

One thing that you might want to consider on this topic is: has science run its course? Physics, for instance, is granting Nobels for either irrelevancies (Penrose's admitted, but inconsequential, mathematical brilliance) or banalities (this year's crop who worked on 'entanglement' -- a worthy topic, to be sure, but a vestige of what makes quantum mechanics, say, 'magical', if you want to think about it that way).

You've seen yourself that at least some (most?) of the medical/biological Nobels are, say, suspect.

Chemistry might be on slightly stronger ground, because of its links to engineering -- but if you look at your life, do you really feel that a new 'product' is going to make things more visceral/worthy?

I note that your main picture shows you in a Yoga pose. Evidently, Yoga adds something to your life. Do you need a scientific procedure to 'prove' that to you?

Science is a certain sort of epistemology that's exceedingly good at getting at the truth of certain repeatable things (like electricity). But I venture to say that the important questions of humanity are far divorced from scientific statements.

All I want to know: does my cat love me as much as my girlfriend does?

ShiYen

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