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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jul 4

    Health Nerd Retweeted RisetteMD, MPH - Diffuse Interstitial Dung Disease

    It's also a particularly funny point because Kary Mullis was a famous contrarian who denied that HIV caused AIDS, dropped a lot of acid, and claimed to have talked to a fluorescent alien raccoon ALL OF THAT IS TRUEhttps://twitter.com/MdRisette/status/1411388316138852355 …

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    RisetteMD, MPH - Diffuse Interstitial Dung Disease @MdRisette
    "Kary Mullis, inventor of PCR, said you can't do X with PCR" The assumption being, apparently, that the person who invents something dictates forever what that thing can be used to do. That technology never evolves. Alexander Graham Bell would say you can't send text via phone.
    4:01 AM - 4 Jul 2021
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      1. Rubana Islam‏ @i_rubana Jul 4
        Replying to @GidMK

        also that he didn’t exactly say that. Quote from the paper I’m guessing that no anti-vaxxers read:PCR is intended to identify substances qualitatively… The tests can detect genetic sequences of viruses, but not viruses themselves.”https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN24420X …

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      1. Neli Trevisan‏ @neli_trevisan Jul 4
        Replying to @GidMK @deonandan

        This has been proven to be a false/misleading quote by Mullins.https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-pcr-idUSKBN24420X …

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      2. Mandi Smallhorne‏ @rainbowinsid Jul 4
        Replying to @GidMK @rcr_pereira

        Which just shows that you can do fascinating work AND be off the wall. Like Newton, who believed metals vegetated and that he was a Chosen interpreter of scripture, among other weird s**t.

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      3. Roberto Pereira‏ @rcr_pereira Jul 4
        Replying to @rainbowinsid @GidMK

        Luc Montagnier, co discoverer of HIV also into weird stuff

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      1. Katharina (BIPOC  🌈 ally, Every Child Matters)‏ @HaighKatharina Jul 4
        Replying to @GidMK @deonandan

        He *invented* PCR while being on an acid trip! Good thing that science looks first at whether something is possible and not at who made the claim in what state, because otherwise his invention would've been dismissed immediately

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      1. Nous sommes tous Arthur‏ @catfish8888 Jul 4
        Replying to @GidMK @jm_mcgrath

        And at 6 a.m. I am Googling "fluorescent raccoon."

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      1. William J Adams‏ @WilliamJAdams8 Jul 4
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        Bloody hell, I wonder if it was the same fluorescent raccoon with whom I discussed the Calculus in Tampa,Fl

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      1. ساره علي الحوال‏ @sarah__alh Jul 4
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        and believed in astrology because 3 people correctly guessed that he was a capricorn… 🙃

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      1. Julia Abortion is Healthcare FNP-BC‏ @julialkRN Jul 4
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        pic.twitter.com/B13gBp0W0p

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      1. Rick Calvert‏ @blogworld Jul 6
        Replying to @GidMK

        Funny the lesson I take from this is that experts are wrong all the time.

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