Stories of friendship and the quarrels that ended them

AFTER writing continuously about the PCR test controversy, I thought of going off in a different direction today by writing about celebrity quarrels.

The trigger was a report about a big quarrel between Nobel laureate and PCR inventor Kary Mullis and infectious disease director Anthony Fauci, chief Covid adviser today to President

Joe Biden. Mullis called Fauci a liar and an abuser of his test.

Camus and Sartre: Bitter falling-out

The quarrel between Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre, both existentialist philosophers and Nobel laureates for literature, is one of the most saddening and puzzling historically.

Until now it has been impossible to read the full story of the relationship between Camus and Sartre. Their dramatic rupture at the height of the Cold War, like that conflict itself, demanded those caught in its wake to take sides rather than to appreciate its tragic complexity. Now, using newly available sources, Ronald Aronson in Camus and Sartre: The story of a friendship and the quarrel that ended it (University of Chicago Press, 2004) offers the first book-length account of the 20th century’s most famous friendship and its end.

Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre first met in 1943, during the German occupation of France. The two became fast friends. Intellectual as well as political allies, they grew famous overnight after Paris was liberated. As playwrights, novelists, philosophers, journalists and editors, the two seemed to be everywhere and in command of every medium in post-war France. East-West tensions would put a strain on their friendship, however, as they evolved in opposing directions and began to disagree over philosophy, the responsibilities of intellectuals, and what sorts of political changes were necessary or possible.

As Camus, then Sartre, adopted the mantle of public spokesman for his side, a historic showdown seemed inevitable. Sartre embraced violence as a path to change and Camus sharply opposed it, leading to a bitter and very public falling out in 1952. They never spoke again, although they continued to disagree, in code, until Camus’ death in 1960.

In a remarkably nuanced and balanced account, Aronson chronicles this riveting story while demonstrating how Camus and Sartre developed first in connection with and then against each other, each keeping the other in his sights long after their break. Combining biography and intellectual history, philosophical and political passion, Camus and Sartre will fascinate anyone interested in these great writers or the world-historical issues that tore them apart.

Mullis and Fauci: Science vs authority

David Knight reported in Roundtablereport.com in December last year on the fiery quarrel between Nobel laureate Kary Mullis and the immunologist Anthony Fauci.

Mullis died at the age of 74 in August 2019, but prior to his death, he had a lot of interactions with Fauci.

He went to war with Fauci for misusing his PCR test. Mullis and other scientists said Fauci was magnifying the retrovirus HIV using PCR to “prove” it was the cause of AIDS. Mullis was furious that Fauci refused to debate him on science but argued from authority.

Following are David Knight’s comments:

“Does this all sound familiar? It’s another reason why this Covid ‘novel’ was not credible from the beginning. In the past, Fauci, CDC, etc. had abused test methods many times to push pandemics and pharmaceuticals.

“‘The strategy for locking us down again is based on these fraudulent tests. The magnified tests that don’t measure the quantity of anything. It’s the same strategy Fauci used to make a lot of money for a lot of people. It’s not just the PCR test, all these rapid tests, every one of them, they’re all non-quantitative tests. There’s no such thing as a nonquantitative test, it’s a lie, an obvious fraud. We’re locking everybody down over brainless lies. The only reason they were able to get away with this is because they’ve turned us into an idiocracy, that was the whole point of the government schools.’

“[Mullis] always said you couldn’t use [PCR] to diagnose a disease but in one interview he went after Fauci and said what a liar he is.”

“Mullis said: ‘These guys like Fauci get up there and start talking to me, you know, he doesn’t know anything really about anything, and I’d say that to his face. Nothing. The man thinks you can take a blood sample and stick it in an electron microscope and if it’s got a virus in there you’d know it. He doesn’t understand electron microscopy, and he doesn’t understand medicine, and he shouldn’t be in the position he’s in. Most of those guys up there on the top are just total administrative people, and they don’t know anything about what’s going on at the bottom. Those guys have an agenda, which is not what we would like them to have, being that we pay for them to take care of our health in some way. They’ve got a personal kind of agenda, they make up their own rules, they change them as they go. And Tony Fauci doesn’t mind going on television in front of the people who pay his salary and lie directly into the camera.’

“‘Fauci didn’t want to have the debate because he only argues from authority. Mullis didn’t believe that there was a connection between HIV and AIDS and said they’re making this connection by misusing his test. He said we all have retroviruses and they’re, literally, blowing this way out of proportion. They’re amplifying it a trillion times, that’s what a PCR cycle of 40 does. The FDA requires PCR testing of Covid to be 40 CT (cycle threshold).’

PCR and HIV/AIDS

“‘Mullis didn’t believe that AIDS was caused by HIV, partly because it was barely detectable in AIDS patients. When PCR was used, they were able to see viral particles in quantities they couldn’t see before.’

“Farber reports: ‘Mullis himself was unimpressed. ‘PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV,’ Mullis told Spin in 1992, ‘and some of those people came down with symptoms of AIDS. But that doesn’t begin even to answer the question — Does HIV cause it?’

“Does that sound familiar? They misuse the PCR test and all of a sudden we’ve got cases everywhere. They did a complete media blackout of the HIV debate for over 7 years. Just like with vaccines right now.

“Remember that the first thing Fauci did as director of the NIH was to make sure that Big Pharma had legal immunity for any damage from vaccines. And remember, this was less than 10 years after we’d been rushed into a swine flu vaccine over a fake pandemic and a lot of people were injured by it. That was the reason he had to do it, it had nothing to do with science, it’s all about politics and money.

“But Fauci also took the reins of NIH’s infectious diseases as AIDS/ HIV was pushed to the front by him and by media.

“Mullis said: ‘The mystery of [AIDS] has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it. You take any other virus, and you spend $2 billion, and you can make up some great mysteries about it too.’

“Knight compares the financial incentives of the AIDS industry in the 1990s with Great Reset financial and political incentives with Covid. “What if you spend $20 billion on it? What if you were to reorder society and take everything from everyone over it? What if the pot at the end of all this is worth tens of trillions of dollars to the bankers, globalists, and the politicians who work for them? For trillions of dollars, they could reset the whole world.” And all it takes is magnifying a virus a trillion times with a PCR of 40 CT.”

Knight concludes: “There are many parallels between what Fauci did with AIDS and what he’s doing with Covid. Mullis pointed out that the misuse of his test was just being done because there’s money involved. For seven years the media stopped anyone questioning what Fauci said about AIDS. They’ve been censoring the debate over vaccines for quite some time and they’re going to step it up. YouTube was bragging about how they’re going to pull down any videos of anyone who questions the election now.

“It’s a clear violation of the First Amendment, they’re taking our right to know, to debate. These people don’t want to debate, Mullis was saying he’d challenged Fauci but he wouldn’t show up. They will control the press, just like they did a blackout on AIDS, they’ll do a blackout on this vaccine.”