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PCR: The Good, The Bad and The Bustin



by Dr Sam Bailey


Dr Stephen Bustin is a Professor of Molecular Medicine at Anglia Ruskin University (U.K.) and a world-renowned expert on quantitative PCR.


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  1. Stephen Andrew Bustin:
    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen-Bustin 

  2. The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments:
    https://www.gene-quantification.de/miqe-bustin-et-al-clin-chem-2009.pdf 

  3. RT-qPCR—Facts and Fallacies: An Interview With Professor Stephen Bustin:
    https://www.technologynetworks.com/diagnostics/articles/rt-qpcrfacts-and-fallacies-an-interview-with-professor-stephen-bustin-346520 

  4. WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 16 March 2020:
    https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---16-march-2020 

  5. Stability issues of RT-PCR testing of SARS-CoV-2 for hospitalized patients clinically diagnosed with COVID-19:
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmv.25786 

  6. Planet Waves FM Interview with Dr. Stephen Bustin - February 10, 2021:
    https://planetwaves.net/planet-waves-fm-interview-with-dr-stephen-bustin/ 

  7. COVID-19 and Diagnostic Testing for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-qPCR—Facts and Fallacies:
    https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/706392/6/Bustin_et_al_2021.pdf 

  8. Portuguese Court Rules PCR Tests “Unreliable” & Quarantines “Unlawful”:
    https://off-guardian.org/2020/11/20/portuguese-court-rules-pcr-tests-unreliable-quarantines-unlawful/ 

  9. Austrian court overturns judgment: PCR test not suitable for diagnosis:
    https://mainland.press/2021/04/02/austrian-court-overturns-judgment-pcr-test-not-suitable-for-diagnosis/ 

  10. Austrian court ruling on the PCR (German):
    https://wp.tagesstimme.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Verwaltungsgericht_FPOe-Versammlung.pdf 

  11. Variation in False-Negative Rate of Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction–Based SARS-CoV-2 Tests by Time Since Exposure:
    https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1495 

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