Cara Santa Maria

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5,033 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 6d ago

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #827 - May 15 2021 podcast

And then they go on to say, however, this will be technically challenging because only a small fraction of cells in any patient tissues are expected to be positive for viral sequences. voice-verified

Consistent with this notion, it's been estimated that only between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 100,000 mouse cells infected with LCMV, either in culture or in the animal carried viral DNA copies integrated into the genome. voice-verified

So what they're saying here is that... voice-verified

It's going to be hard to test because at any given cell that we look at, any given sequence of DNA probably wouldn't have SARS in it. voice-verified

But my question, and Steve, I'm hoping maybe you can just help me with the biochemistry here, is their original observation was that people are testing positive even though they don't have the infection. voice-verified

So clearly they're getting evidence of viral DNA. voice-verified

It's the very thing that made them want to do this study that they're saying they're never going to be able to find. voice-verified

And to me, that's really strange. voice-verified

Like, you would think that if you had a positive PCR test, then you would be able to then further look at that sample. voice-verified

But the weird thing is what they said is it's likely that it's incorporated into the genome by the virtue of the fact that they're still testing positive. voice-verified

Yeah, but I think that's just a hypothesis. voice-verified

But it doesn't say that it's actually happening in human beings. voice-verified

And that's left for us to determine. voice-verified

But it's better evidence than a random hypothesis. voice-verified

They're showing, hey, it could happen. voice-verified

We have a mechanism by which it could happen. voice-verified

And we even made it happen when we forced it. voice-verified

Now let's see if it's actually happening. voice-verified

Yeah, and they do make that point. voice-verified

But I guess what I'm saying, the confusing part for me is that the very thing that they're saying is why they wanted to investigate it in the first place. voice-verified

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