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"MagillaGorilla" wrote in message
... Tom Kunich wrote: MagillaGorilla wrote in message ... Cary Ellis's science is a lot better than the Kangaroos who said their test is 100% infallible. Who the hell is Cary Ellis? DNA tests took years to be accepted because they needed to be reassured all the false positives were worked out. Innocent people went to jail over false positives for DNA tests. Duh! There is no "false positives" because that isn't the way the DNA analysis works. Maybe you ought to know a little something about the things that you want to talk about. Sorry, I meant Kary Mullis, I keep forgetting his name. He's the guy who invented the technique called PCR (polymerase chain reaction). Kary worked for Cetus and left a little after I got there. I was told that he was so drugged up all the time that he was a danger to himself. And yes, there were false positives with DNA, loser. You obviously don't know how it works. As a clue - I designed the power supply for the first and second generation thermocyclers that makes the process possible. I just may have a little more knowledge of the science than you do. The false positives were based on insufficient statistics for certain gene loci. So people were convicted based on DNA matches to what were really gene loci that were fairly common in the population. It took years to get enough statistics to make the DNA test false positive rate in the "1 in 3.5 billion" range. What you are suggesting that the test gives "false positives" because people don't know what they're looking at. Figures. So you can drop your little condescending lecture, Tom. For you, never a quicky, always a longy. |
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