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psyblet

Wikipedia butchered Kary Mullis, the "inventor" of the PCR tests

I googled "pcr tests bad" and found an article where some buzzfeed-like site was playing fact-checker again and came across the name Kary Mullis. I've personally not cared at all about the coronavirus thing, it hasn't changed my life in any meaningful way so I just didn't bother.

Googled his name, found a weirdly short Wikipedia article with some very pointed language. Went through the history of it, and found an older version where the language was much more objective.

Here is the current version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis

Here is the historic version from September 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kary_Mullis&oldid=915449084

There are glaring differences in these versions, and that reminds me how good Wikipedia used to be before whatever the fuck is happening to the internet now happened. Nothing is objective or nuanced anymore, something is either the best thing ever or it's terrible.

I've noticed the same thing happening to other biographies on Wikipedia.

Posted Dec 5, 2020, 1:21 PM UTC

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perfect_pickles•

well said

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Destroyer_of_Walls•

Wikipedia has become a travesty. Completely fucking useless for any remotely controversial topic. It's merely a propaganda machine at this stage. I always check Encyclopedia Britannica and Info-galactic to get more balance on a topic, but even then you're in no way guaranteed a fair and balanced outlook.

Mullis died the Summer of 2019. It would be interesting to note when the creep towards defamation set in on his page. Before or after the world began to be "tested" with his PCR technique which he was adamant was not a "test" or diagnostic tool, but a manufacturing technique for replicating dna.

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perfect_pickles•

Canadian MI6 people own and run Wikipedia.

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powerfulKRH•

It sucks cuz back in the day when teachers said “Wikipedia is not a source” it was a fantastic source. Now they like it and it’s complete trash

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InfowarriorKat•

I feel so fucking stupid for donating to them. When they ask for a donation when you search for something the thing comes up asking you to donate. They don't need our donations. I'm sure they get plenty of money from the deep state who pays them to add things, discredit certain things, add "far right conspiracy" to pages, etc.

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AlBundyIsMyHero666•

Lol fact checking is just a form of censorship

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dukey•

He was very out spoken about HIV fraud. HIV was announced as the cause of aids even before it was scientifically verified. The whole thing was just a giant hoax. In the 80s it used to be called GRID gay related immune deficiency. It was only seen in a subsection of gay men, mostly those that abused cocaine and other drugs such as amylnitrite (poppers). It was a lifestyle disease and not caused by a retro virus. In order to treat hiv patients they gave them a drug called AZT, which was a dna chain terminator drug. It was originally developed as a chemo drug, but was too toxic and killed too many people so was rejected. If you took this drug long enough you would die. It attacked every tissue in your body, bone marrow etc.. Aids was really a journey into insanity.

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CommnRange606•

His book Dancing Naked in the Mind Field is wonderful! Complete with encounters of a machine elf or being from another dimension saving his life during a blackout, OJ Simpson tales, how his test could never ever be used to find AIDS and how it doesn't exist, etc. Kary is rollin in his grave if he knows PCR is being used as a covid test

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cobblepoint•

A life changing book for me. His essay “Nobody is minding the Store” should be required reading before students are released upon the world.

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frankreynoldsisgod•

Philip Cross or JIDF should interest you.

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exrasser•

Wikipedia English with image: 100GB
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exrasser•

No clue, it was to get it before it gets altered any further.
I got a copy from 2019 on a external hard drive somewhere to compare with in any case.

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perfect_pickles•

Obamco when the SJW and feelie types arrived in power.

Reality and the whole world became their playground and sandbox.

2020 and the MSM plus corporations totally fawning over the the messages was their crowning glory.

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Algebra_Child•

Can you point to a specific point of difference for reference? I don’t feel like reading two entire Wikipedia pages and at a glance I don’t see too much different?

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psybletOP•

Go to the parts about his stance on AIDS/HIV. In the current article it's "he's a denialist and bad boi", very pointed language. In the historic one it's more about describing his views and that others have contested some of those views.

The current one tries to sell it as "everyone knows this so he's stupid", instead of being objective to what he's said and what he means.

The current one is also much shorter than the historic one, but with a few more addendums about conspiracy or "nutjob"-ness. That's what I found, anyway. If you disagree, that would be awesome.

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Algebra_Child•

Honestly they don’t seem that different, the word conspiracy comes up once and it’s a reference to him claiming others are pushing conspiracies. There’s one quote without attribution (and Wikipedia even made this clear) but it’s not really derogatory unless you think someone who ponders while enjoying their other hobbies a bad thing.

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psybletOP•

It's the usage of the term "denialist" that bothers me. It has charged meaning.

No idea why you're being downvoted. It was a reach by me, but the article has definitely changed along with the mainstream narrative that there are "fundamental truths", and anyone who questions those are "denialists".

It just reminds me too much of "1984".

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gargamel_1982•

Any time you see someone labeled a “denialist” or “denier”, they’re trying to shut down investigation and discredit the person rather than arguing based on logic and critical thinking.

It’s like “climate denier”. “The science is settled.” Nope, it isn’t “settled”.

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[deleted]•

I don’t feel like reading

Damn, life must be a never-ending struggle for you.

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Algebra_Child•

Nah it’s pretty easy when you make enough money to pay people to smear conspiracy theorists online so they all look like neck beard weirdos.

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sallystone7777•

You "haven't cared at all about the whole coronavirus thing" ?

Do you not care at all about what this worldwide lockdown has done to billions of people on this planet? Are you a sociopath or a psychopath?

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bYbCYKA•

the virus did all that? I would have sworn it was people capitalizing. how can a virus lock down half a planet? the virus arresting that pregnant chick in Australia for her Facebook posts looked a lot like regular policemen. the virus eating at French Laundry the other night wore a Gavin Newsom costume. does Melinda Gates know her husband was replaced by a virus? are you retarded?

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sallystone7777•

No, but apparently you are. Learn how to write.

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psybletOP•

Are you a sociopath or a psychopath?

Yes

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