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Meet the Inventor of the PCR Test Now Misused for COVID-19
Meet the Inventor of the PCR Test Now Misused for COVID-19
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993
Interview with Kary B. Mullis, 1993 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, at the 55th meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, June 2005. Interviewer is freelance journalist Marika Griehsel.
This is a small segment from the interview that Kary Mullis gave upon receiving his Nobel prize.
I would like to come back to the issue of the award, the Nobel award. Was that a kind of, for you, having done the discovery you made and then when you got the prize, was that some kind of feeling of justification but also that your knowledge and your idea was finally acknowledged and that you got some kind of, you know, payback after having...?
Kary B. Mullis: There is nothing like getting the Nobel Prize. I mean, there’s just nothing quite like that as far as I’m concerned. By 1993, I didn’t need any confirmation that this was a useful thing because every time I’d pick up Science or Nature or Cell or any scientific kind of magazines, there’s not only articles that are using the technique but there’s full colour, full page ads for the equipment to do it with. It’s pretty hard these days even to find an issue, in fact you couldn’t find an issue with Science or Nature or Cell or, you know, PNAS or anything that didn’t have lots of people using PCR.
But did you wait for it? Did you think, ok, one day I will get it, or did you think, ok, no?
Kary B. Mullis: No, I really didn’t think that much about the Nobel Prize except for the fact on the night, then I thought ah yes. I told my girlfriend. I said, you know, this is the kind of thing you get the Nobel Prize for. This will change DNA chemistry, you know, for a long time and she didn’t take it very seriously but I didn’t think of it too much after that until years later somebody, my mentor when I was in graduate school, Joe Neilands called me one day and he said something like if you’ll start talking to the press about all kinds of issues and stuff, and I was starting to talk about AIDS... because they were using PCR to detect it, the HIV molecule, and I was going to a lot of those meetings and I was thinking these guys are on the wrong track and they’ve got blinders on them in a sense, he said if you just stop that, you know, you’re probably going to get the Nobel Prize but they don’t have to give it to you until you’re dead; I mean, they don’t have to give it to you until right before you’re dead, so make it easier on yourself and just, I said you wouldn’t stop talking about something that you thought was important, would you Joe? And I knew he wouldn’t because he had been a real activist against Vietnam and that kind of stuff and that was the one thing I learned from him, was that scientists had a responsibility.
Kary Mullis mysteriously died in August 2019, just a few short weeks before the world was turned on its head.
The full transcript and interview video can be found here:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1993/mullis/25900-interview-transcript-1993/
Nobel Prize Winning Inventor of PCR Test Said that Dr. Fauci "Doesn't Know Anything – And I’d Say It to His Face"
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