by Michael Thau “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it.” ― H.L. Mencken In the previous entry, we learned how a process invented to increase the size of research samples of DNA called polymerase chain reaction is used to test for viruses even though the guy who received a Nobel Prize for inventing it said using it that way doesn’t work. Kary Mullis’s PCR process takes segments of DNA through a “cycle” that doubles the amount. If you run a single segment of…
