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Would you like to show Fauci how science is done?

I'm thinking we should request the "free" brandon test kits and run controls to see how many of these tests give false positives. Would any of you be up for it?

Would you like to show Fauci how science is done? I'm thinking we should request the "free" brandon test kits and run controls to see how many of these tests give false positives. Would any of you be up for it?

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[–] • 4 pts

Everybody should know that these test kits come in a box with a control positive. If someone were to collect those control positives, then those would be valuable to those that want to swab their nose before they are tested. Boom. Free two weeks off of work.

[–] • 2 pts

A group of kids figured out that if they exposed the test to a highly acidic environment (gargled with orange juice) they could get unlimited time off school.
The new orange juice variant is very scary, it might overwhelm the hospital system!

[–] • 2 pts

I wonder if any of my cats have the China flu.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

That's not really how they are manipulating the numbers. The tests are legit and frankly probably give more false negatives then false positives. They start getting loud about a new variant and people who are terrified of covid and have the sniffles go wait in line and get tested. We have an epidemic of testing.

[–] • 0 pt

Can confirm. Everyone and their grandmas cat is getting tested now just for fun it seems.

[–] • 0 pt

Idiot..

[–] • 1 pt

I've done a lot of test (because unvaxxed) and never got a positive result. I guess there must be more false negatives than false positives.

[–] • 1 pt

The problem is designing a successful control. The best thing is to create multiple control groups. The point is that testing a human, even a non-sick human is different than testing a pine-apple. But by testing a human there is contamination of your control because you don't know to what extent the control group actually has omicron, especially given its weakness.

So what you do is both. Measure the result exposing it to only air. Measure the result after touching different surfaces. Measure the result on healthy people. Measure the result on sick people. Measure the result when the swab hasn't even touched outside air. Maybe it come pre-contaminated. We should test that.

[–] • 0 pt

I started thinking about this last night. You're right. In order to find a suitable control replacement for saliva we need to know how the tests work. And the control substance needs to be easily available to poalers. My current thought is that we should use distilled water, with the pH adjusted for human saliva.