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Originally Posted by DDDD
Pretty much the opposite , they took some lung fluid , aligned it to a predetermined template bat coronavirus using software called megahit . If you do this with non infected people you will get the same result .
The article debunks itself because with a stricter assembler they didn't find the longer sequences because it didn't exist. Its in the paper
They can claim high abundance in humans to a pig or a banana .
People actually believe they found a spiked protein structure in humans and then sequenced its rna and this is what's found in 'infected people'
Even these claims are not made in the papers .
PCR tests for a fragment of this nucleic acid sequence , not a virus . They also don't check the results of what was amplified in PCR , most people know after 25 cycles it starts creating all sorts of sequences that were not present in the original sample , go to court with forensics and it would be thrown out at more than 12 cycles .
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methods section , not the claims section .
Its claims 89% similarity , we are 98% similar to a pig , this ain't similar at all .
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This piqued my curiosity so I pulled the SARS-Cov-2 genome (
link) from a genome database and crunched it through some software to see if it aligned with human sequences (BlastN search, a standard search tool for aligning genomes) At first, a got many hits but they were all SARS-COV-2 which at least shows the tool works! I filtered on human DNA and RNA and got, wait for it......
No significant hits
If these guys are pulling genome sequences from lung fluid, it aint human genomic RNA or mRNA.
RT-PCR testing is cycle dependent, that's why quantitative RT-PCR is used so you can see how many cycles are needed to get a signal. It's also why multiple targets are used to compensate for any issues with incorrect results. It's also why negative controls are used for every test plate. RT-PCR isn't perfect but if you have the right controls in place, it is pretty robust