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The video they are referring to has a very specific part about pcr testing (relevant to the discussion here). I think it is reasonable to trust his opinion on

The video they are referring to has a very specific part about pcr testing (relevant to the discussion here). I think it is reasonable to trust his opinion on the matter regardless of what he thinks about AIDS.

briefcomment 5y ago
He is also a Nobel laureate.
javagram 5y ago
The video pretty clearly shows that his view is that testing for HIV is a conspiracy by the CDC to get funding to fight AIDS.[1] Unless you agree with him that AIDS isn’t caused by HIV, it doesn’t make much sense to trust him rather than all the scientific experts who have worked on PCR testing and virus detection in the last few decades. ( edit: Moreover, suppressing HIV using drugs has been successfully treating AIDS, which wouldn’t make sense if the disease wasn’t actually caused by the virus. ) Moreover, PCR testing during the covid epidemic, which he was not alive for, has clearly been working well. High cases later correspond to high hospitalizations and high covid-19 deaths and high excess deaths across many different countries. Frankly I don’t put much trust in his Nobel, any more than Michael Levitt who is also a Nobel laureate and has repeatedly made falsified predictions about the Covid-19 pandemic.[2] It seems pretty clear that Nobel prize winners can later lose touch with reality. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkqQIY7J0fQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkqQIY7J0fQ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Levitt#Covid-19 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Levitt#Covid-19
- native_samples 5y ago
  PCR testing during the covid epidemic, which he was not alive for, has clearly been working well There is no correlation between COVID health outcomes and levels of testing.
- timr 5y ago
  > Moreover, PCR testing during the covid epidemic, which he was not alive for, has clearly been working well. High cases later correspond to high hospitalizations and high covid-19 deaths and high excess deaths across many different countries. In the case of Covid, "hospitalizations" are largely defined as "in the hospital with a positive PCR test", so this is a truism. Deaths are predominantly downstream of "hospitalizations", so again, this is a truism. Any pathology in PCR testing would equally affect "hospitalizations" and "confirmed deaths".

briefcomment 5y ago

He is also a Nobel laureate.

javagram 5y ago

The video pretty clearly shows that his view is that testing for HIV is a conspiracy by the CDC to get funding to fight AIDS.[1] Unless you agree with him that AIDS isn’t caused by HIV, it doesn’t make much sense to trust him rather than all the scientific experts who have worked on PCR testing and virus detection in the last few decades. ( edit: Moreover, suppressing HIV using drugs has been successfully treating AIDS, which wouldn’t make sense if the disease wasn’t actually caused by the virus. ) Moreover, PCR testing during the covid epidemic, which he was not alive for, has clearly been working well. High cases later correspond to high hospitalizations and high covid-19 deaths and high excess deaths across many different countries. Frankly I don’t put much trust in his Nobel, any more than Michael Levitt who is also a Nobel laureate and has repeatedly made falsified predictions about the Covid-19 pandemic.[2] It seems pretty clear that Nobel prize winners can later lose touch with reality. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkqQIY7J0fQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkqQIY7J0fQ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Levitt#Covid-19 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Levitt#Covid-19

native_samples 5y ago
PCR testing during the covid epidemic, which he was not alive for, has clearly been working well There is no correlation between COVID health outcomes and levels of testing.
timr 5y ago
> Moreover, PCR testing during the covid epidemic, which he was not alive for, has clearly been working well. High cases later correspond to high hospitalizations and high covid-19 deaths and high excess deaths across many different countries. In the case of Covid, "hospitalizations" are largely defined as "in the hospital with a positive PCR test", so this is a truism. Deaths are predominantly downstream of "hospitalizations", so again, this is a truism. Any pathology in PCR testing would equally affect "hospitalizations" and "confirmed deaths".