I am currently reading a book by Kary Mullis, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field. I like this Mullis character, as he is a little off-center. I imagine I could drive coast-to-coast with him and enjoy every minute, having to stop now and then so he could get out and run naked around a lake or through a car wash. That makes him interesting.
Mullis, if you recognize the name, invented (and won a Nobel Prize for) the “PCR,” or polymerase chain reaction machine. It takes a small strand of DNA and magnifies it, making it far easier to study. It is this machine, I am led to believe, that has made DNA matching possible. It is also currently being used to identify “COVID-19,” but was not designed for that purpose, and so often makes mistakes. However, I don’t imagine the testing being done for that virus is real, as I don’t imagine the virus is real.
