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  Matt Hancock’s UK Health Security Agency would be the worst April Fool’s ever – except he isn’t joking Neil Clark is a journalist, writer, broadcaster and blogger. His award winning blog can be found at www.neilclark66.blogspot.com. He tweets on politics and world affairs  @NeilClark66 27 Mar, 2021 08:01 Get short URL Britain's Health Secretary Hancock holds a news conference in London  ©  Reuters 186 Follow RT on The UK Health Secretary confirmed this week that a new ‘UK Health Security Agency’ was being set up on April 1, thus marking the next stage in Britain’s transformation into a repressive bio-security state. Back in 1957, the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme  Panorama  (well, it was then) showed a short three-minute film of a family in Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from a family ‘spaghetti tree.’ People rang up the BBC switchboard afterwards for advice on growing their own spaghetti. They should have paid closer attention to the date of the broadcast. The first

  “Making something out of nothing”: PCR tests, CT values and false positives A comment on the efficacy of the RT-PCR test in view of the Jaafar paper. Niels Harrit PhD SUMMARY: If inoculation can be used as verification of the Corman-Drosten RT-PCR test for Covid-19, about 50% of the positive results reported must be considered false when a maximum of 35 cycles are applied. If only 25 cycles are applied the fraction of false positives drops to 20%. The efficacy of the RT-PCR test used to identify infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and ”cases” of the Covid-19 disease is widely disputed. In these discussions it is often maintained that the test produces 97% false positives. Reference for that claim is made to a study by a Marseille-based group who communicated their results in a letter to the editor on September 28th, 2020.[ 1 ] The first author is R. Jaafar, so it is hereafter referred to as the Jaafar-paper. It represents an expanded data set compared to an earlier study[ 2 ] spearhead