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I came across this article from the NY Times last year – my first awareness of the problems of the fabled PCR test. Later, a few weeks I recall, Professor Carl Heneghan said up to 50% may be false positives. I taught myself the basics of calculating the false positives rates (and false negatives too)Continue reading “The Budgie’s Cage again”