Is the Coronavirus PCR Test a Fraud? An Objective Look Into Why People Insist So

Reasons for the doubt are actually not entirely wrong, but they need proper interpretations.

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It’s ‘scientifically meaningless’ and all false positives, some have claimed about the current polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for SARS-CoV-2 infection or its disease, Covid-19. False-positive means that the positive result of a test is false, so it’s picking up a signal when there’s none.

There are at least 5 reasons why some doubt its scientific validity:

1. The inventor of PCR said it could not detect infectious viruses.
2. It has not been compared to a gold-standard, definitive test.
3. It’s a qualitative test, not quantitative.
4. The cycle threshold (Ct) value used is too high, so it’s detecting coronavirus genes when there are no real viruses.
5. There’s no proof that the detected genes belong to SARS-CoV-2 since this coronavirus has never been purified.

This article will look at each of these points — evaluating if they are correct or not. Actually, however, most of the above points are in the grey area that is not outright wrong, which is why they can be misleading if not…