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  • Homosexual activists understand the power of words.

    Please visit my channel to watch a one-minute video clip in which popular atheist author Richard Dawkins admits that homosexual activists "hijacked the word 'gay'".

    The word "homosexual" is more appropriate and accurate because it, unlike the word "gay", actually describes the behavior/attraction/relationsh­ip being discussed.

    The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.

  • @kakashi76767 -_____- Logic has nothing to do with correct grammer and spelling. Yes, I didn't want to open another window because I just wanted to get my point across, not worry about spelling and grammer...Again, your not even arguing anymore your just attacking me. That's another logical "FALLACY". (Happy?) Anyway, don't even bother replying, your most likely a close minded idiot. Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean. (Yay Bob Marley)

  • @Ipickmynosesometimes heh - don't bother even ... .bothering your mind with idiots like kaka76:) Maybe some people have problems with writing but others have a problem with READING and LISTENING with understanding. BTW - I strongly recommend to be careful with dissing anything this great man says. Regardless of the subject. He's purely on a different wavelenght and light years in front of 'ordinary joe'. He's a pure genious

  • @JJTechnologies anyone who believes in astrology is a moron. im sorry your dad raped you every fathers day and that makes you so angry you have to threaten people over the internet but it doesnt change the fact this guy is flake.

  • @JJTechnologies you are so arrogant... anyone who disagrees with you must be attacked! i hope you get cancer. i hope your whole family gets it! i would piss on their graves! hahahahahahahahhaha

  • Why is an idiot who believes in astrology giving a ted talk? Ive heard this guy is a big druggie, which is maybe why his hands keep shaking

  • @kakashi76767 Yea this druggie is also the guy that came up with the most significant tool in molecular biology that we have to date. Maybe you should look into people's work before you start do judge the credibility of their work based on irrelevant characteristics?

  • @webbous100 yeah.... he accepts astrology as fact... thats not irrelevant, that retarded

  • @kakashi76767 What does astrology have to do with Biochemistry?

  • @webbous100 whoever believes in astrology is retarded; therefore, it is safe to discount everything else he says

  • @kakashi76767 That's a logical fallicie and has nothing to do with his work.

  • @Ipickmynosesometimes Don't talk to me about logic if you don't know how to spell "fallacy". Not only are you stupid, but you are too lazy to google the word in another window to make sure it's spelled correctly.

  • @kakashi76767 you call Mullis retard? :) You don't even know who you're talking about, or you're too dumb to even bother checking. go and google PCR and what kind of impact it had on the development of technology and medicine and than come back ... kaka

  • Oh now i get it. Alpha gal epitope is immediately attacked by your anti bodies so Kary came up with the idea to attach epitope on pathogens so your anti bodies can attack the epitope-pathogen complex eg anthrax and epitope. This is better than your body taking the time to develop its own immunity to that pathogen.

  • @Nousides

    Wow. You are really misinformed. Try actually reading the Mullis paper "On Aids and Global Warming". Here is an excerpt:

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    This is in contrast to the current AIDS establishment’s “It’s the virus, stupid!” No experiments were ever done or even suggested to test the HIV hypothesis.

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    Dr. Kary Mullis is a very outspoken critic of the HIV-AIDS hypothesis and he appears in numerous interviews across the net sharing those views.

  • wtf is this man saying, he goes off on so many tangents.

  • Isn't Doxycycline an anti-biotic? 

  • What?? I can't believe this talk! Cops would actually try to entrap someone by planting drugs on them?? Impossible!

  • one of my favorite talks

  • HIV causes AIDS: Koch's postulates fulfilled. SJ O'Brien, JJ Goedert - Current opinion in immunology, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    You are only 14 years behind the times.

  • But in the end, the key message from Mullis is that AIDS is a syndrome caused by a retrovirus. Which means he fundamentally disagrees with duesberg, and with 99.9% of the denialist mantra. Since HIS statement is consistent with HIV testing being effective, and treatment.

    As for the proof HIV is the causal agent of AIDS. I gave it to you. It is up to you, to read the paper and understand. Start by pulling your head out of your ass & getting an education.

  • "Even Montagnier is now saying: "healthy organism can eliminate hiv in 2-3 weeks"" Lol. Lying by omission again. You must be another sockpuppet account for kookaid or reggieworth.

    What is the rest of that statement? Oh... CAN. Not "Does in every case." And what happens to the rest of them? HIV infection. And what happens to most of those when left untreated? HIV disease, AIDS and death.

    Your metaphor is moronic. We aren't talking fruits and grapes, we are talking kinds of grapes.

  • I see that you have still not gone to Mullis' OWN web site to read his OWN paper in which he states retroviridae are the cause of AIDS.

    Let me help you since you are obviously an illiterate idiot. The title of the paper is "AIDS and GLOBAL WARMING" and here is a quote from his own paper "Regarding AIDS I have published a hypothesis wherein the Retroviridae in general, rather than a particular species, is the problem. This was published in Genetica 95:195-197, 1995."

  • it's unbelievable how far some people can go with nonsense. I love the way Mullis is talking, and just hope there are more scientists like him. As per what he says:"If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There is no such document."

    Even Montagnier is now saying: "healthy organism can eliminate hiv in 2-3 weeks". Long live Kary Mullis:)

  • Is so compelling to see the ingenuity of scientists.

  • @scramignon

    If you think this is amazing you should check out the newest stuff like the bioengineered viruses (made out of HIV-1 and Herpes simplex1 respectively as follows) that can *cure* x-linked adrenoleukodystrophy or the other ones that can *cure* metastatic melanoma (yeah, skin cancer) and at the same time heal the lesions on the liver and lungs.

  • @scramignon

    Really makes you wonder why there's not more money going into this stuff, huh?

  • me no scientist,but if an auto-immune system will eat them pig heart-valve molecules and anything they are attached to,doesn't that make it as much a weapon as a cure? just askin...

  • Not really because as he said alpha-gal epitope is not found in Human cells... So our auto-immune system has an excellent system that will only recognize foreign body and eats it

  • kary mullis on May 8, 2009 12:44 PM writes... "The Altermune method has proven itself in vivo in the case of Anthrax in mice by J. Kiel and J. Vivekanada at Brooks Air Base in San Antonio using a molecule containing a derivatized DNA aptamer and an alpha-Gal epitope."

    reggums you are such a fucking idiot. Travian answered him correctly. Just because you are too fucking stupid to figure it out isn't our problem.

  • Amazing. Does anyone know how far are commercial drugs based on this system?

  • Nowhere near at the moment. They are performing tests in mice at this time.

  • The truth is the Mullis knows damn well that HIV is the causal agent of AIDS. He uses these kinds of stories and "theories" to identify the true idiots.

    If you buy his alien raccoon and HIV bullshit, then you are an idiot.

    HIV is the causal agent of AIDS. End of story.

  • I guess the truth about Mullis' psychiatric problems is a little hard for you to handle? Yes you can shut psycho's up. It just isn't easy. Why?

  • Got one thank you! ER is slow on a Wed morning. The morning car accidents are over with.

    And mullis is still one seriously screwed up guy with psychiatric problems. A perfect representative for the HIV denial crowd. A scientist that made one great breakthrough in his life, and has been desperately scrambling to recapture that fame since. Even if he has to promote scientifically vaccuous points of view such as HIV denial to do so.

  • ER doctor, internal medicine specialist.

  • Oh lol son. I have nothing to prove to you. Like I am going to reveal my name when I get death threats daily from the HIV denial crowd.

    Every one of my statements about mullis is easily verifiable. Read his own book. He is the one who told the world about his alien raccoons.

    And the fact that HIV is the causal agent of AIDS is likewise easily verifiable to anyone with brains to use google scholar.

  • nousides you troll

  • @Nousides and here we go again - easily verifiable? Show me one damn scientific paper PROVING that hiv is cause of aids. The problem is there are none, and this is the fundation on Mullis's "denial" for the hiv>aids hypothesis. Maybe you're not using google or what? :) You should change your nick for Nuisance. You get "death threats" from anyone? I believe you might be the one with well developed paranoia. Mullis is pure genius and doesn't have to "prove himself" to dummies

  • "Show me one damn scientific paper PROVING that hiv is cause of aids."

    HIV is the causal agent of AIDS: Koch's Postulates Fulfilled.

    There. Done, and owned.

    And Mullis now admits that retroviridae are the cause of AIDS. You can read the paper on his own web site.

    You need to grow up. Call me when you finish your MD, then you might be qualified enough for us to speak.

  • @Nousides you're having conversation with yourself or what?

    I asked you to provide a link to the paper: 'PROVING that HIV is cause of aids'. Not 'proving that RETROVIRUSES are cause of HIV”, which partially can be thuth

    Mullis had a hypothesis that AIDS is casuse by retroviruses OTHER THAN HIV. It's like asking: show me that you can make champagne from apples

    and getting answer: it's proven that you can make it from fruit.

    Not every retrovirus is HIV, just like not every fruit is grape:))

  • @Nousides Koch's postulates are not fulfilled by the HIV = AIDS hypothesis....I won't go into all four.

    1. 1000's of HIV negative people die every year from AIDS defining diseases, you have to understand that there is a 100% correlation between HIV and AIDS simply because it is implied in the AIDS definition....interestingly, the HIV negative deaths have even lower CD4 counts

    3. Only 1.5% of people who are HIV positive develop AIDS every year; and this is a very sick group of people as well

  • @ChiefClickClack Koch's postulates are not fulfilled by TB either.

  • Quoting from his 1998 book Dancing Naked in the Mine Field, Mullis encountered something extraordinarily weird on the way.

  • The raccoon spoke. Good evening, doctor, it said. I said something back, I dont remember what, probably, Hello. The next thing I remember, it was early in the morning. I was walking along a road uphill from my house.

  • Center for UFO studies:

    ...at the far end of the path, under a fir tree, there was something glowing. I pointed my flashlight at it anyhow. It only made it whiter where the beam landed. It seemed to be a raccoon. I wasnt frightened. Later, I wondered if it could have been a hologram, projected from God knows where.

  • Very Cool! He was so nervous, thanks for standing up Kary Mullis!

  • THE SOUND OF YOUR VIDEOS IS TOO LOW FOR HOW LOUD YOUR OFFICIAL END OF VIDEOS "SONG" IS!!! Lower it!! Please! You blowing my eardrums!

  • WTF!? Does the Mofo want us to de-evolve?

  • Dude, human ingenuity ftw!!!!

  • yeah! ftw!

  • I can only be sorry that he is an aids denialist....

  • What do you mean by AIDS denialist? He questioned the connection between HIV and AIDS itself. He doesn't deny AIDS!

  • Denying aids is the same as questioning the relation between hiv and aids. Trust me, Mullis even doubts the existence of HIV.

    which is a pity. It is not unheard of some Nobel prize winners to have their delusions.

    but he is a genius, no doubt

  • Quite sad about Mullis, but just as sad that people down-thumbed the comments about Mullis' AIDS denying.

    People would give credit to the nonsensical assertion that there is no virus that causes AIDS, and therefore no one should be bothered to avoid this contagion? Why don't you go tell Africans not to use condoms, and while you're at it share your hypodermic needles with other people?

    You down-thumbing people sicken me.

  • ? me thumbing down ?

    you sure mean the others

  • Yes, I replied to your comment, but most of it was directed to comment readers, especially down-thumbing folk, and not you. Sorry.

  • I think that's in the past. It's already proven. Period.

  • lol......

    get real

  • Boeing, Blackwater, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, United Technologies, Halliburton, G. E., Science Applications International and CSC/ DynCorp

    ftw!

  • Bet this old boys sparked up a few doobies in his time...Lol...Thanks for posting.

  • i want to read his book

  • great idea bog problem

    the drug companies cant make much money from this.

    thats the story of most great ideas in medical science...

  • Yep, that's what happened to a testing platform Kary worked on in the 90's

  • wow

  • I got a kick out of his analogy :)

  • wow what an interesting idea..the possibilities are endless!

  • Talk was too short and shallow. I guess he was just appealing to the mass.

    Does anyone think abusing this could mean big trouble? Using this frequently would cause our bodies to be overrun by the same similar antibodies all the time. I wonder how this would affect our normal flora as well.

    Also, I noticed he only talked about staph, and anthracis, but what about viruses? I think it would benefit the virus more if this were to be used for them...

  • what are you talking about?

  • holyscythe- I don't see why this kind of treatment would be any more harmful than current antibiotics, less so if anything since if i understand rightly it would be targeted at quite specific types of cell. viruses are totally different to bacteria and its unlikely there will ever be one treatment that can combat both of them.

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  • genius but not a great talker

  • I like that presenter, he's eccentric and has interesting analogies. Bravo! :o)

  • So now we live forever right?

  • wow

  • hell to the yes!

    Go Kary Mullis!

    Go TED!

    Peace to all! ;-)

  • He left out alot....

  • now another 10 years untill it hits the market because of government regulations

  • finding that "little feature" on the bacteria is the hardest part I guess ...

  • this sounds quite promising

  • Haha, drop a bag of weed in the bacteria's back seat and charge it with possesion.

  • oooooooo0oooo0oo

  • kool.

  • That was smart of him.

    =)

  • he's really endearing :)

  • pigs need that epitope, bacteria does not, so evemtually bacteria will mutate to create a hydrolase that will cleave the carrier, or cleave the epitope, or have a way to shield it so its not recognized by the immune cells anymore, or suppress the apetite of the immune cells that have been activated by the epitope, there are plenty of ways to escape. "single target" drug therapy is not the way to go

  • "'single target' drug therapy is not the way to go"

    Assuming you're right, do you have a better solution?

    Don't thousands of people facing certain death from resistant strains of bacteria stand to have their lives returned to them due to this method of drug therapy, despite your claim that eventually the bacteria will evolve to make it ineffective? Isn't that alone a good reason to develop this therapy, assuming a known therapy doesn't have *more* promise with the same cost/energy input?

  • "why this urge to 'save' lives?"

    Of course, you're absolutely right. There's no reason to save anyone's life (or improve the conditions thereof). We should just stop practicing medicine entirely. Let's start with you, happybirthdayricha.

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  • Wow, this looks very good. Let's see what happen with it.

  • great to see someone so great with so much humility! amazing

  • Truly great people have humility.

  • Truly great people have humility.

  • Love this man's voice; funny yet so full of knowledge I haven't yet learned.

    And I watched something about a cure for Antrax earlier today on the news...perhaps it was this guy's cure they were speaking of.

  • all wishful liberal thinking. you guys can't even cure swineflu.

  • all negative, pessimistic thinking. you cant cure swineful, but this guy's heading in the right direction.

  • you know what else was wishful liberal thinking, to learn how to fly... to go to space, to feed the world by using nitrogen. Plz stop being close minded, if you don't trust science then live in the wilderness.

  • i love hearing experts explain stuff in really simple terms.  this guy is the man ;)

  • wow incrediable! :)

  • this its motivational it not science, it can be used now?

    a how many can save?

  • Got English?

  • not to good why?

  • He left the stage so fast :P

    Excellent talk. Isn't stuff like this supposed to be the next big shift after antibiotics. Since antibiotics are becoming less effective against resistant bacterial strains.

  • I saw him hand tweak the molecule. Is he talking about an isomer?

  • Absolutely beautiful! THIS is real science in action.

  • Those little bastards got my professor friend the other day.

  • That was rather short a little more depth afterwards would have made it better.

  • Sounds like Forest Gump. If life was like a box of chocolates..

  • forest gump? this guy won a nobel prize in 1993. YOU are more likely to be forest

  • how is this new?

  • Alpha-gal epitodes are not destroyed before its linker tag whatever bacteria in body???? Given that humans are many times larger than the mice, how much of alpha-gal will be needed to combat the bacteria?

    Sound interesting but the scientific explanation was no enough in the talk.

  • the amount needed is probably relative to the size of the infection. and I would imagine that this would be less effective for more widespread infections like when a patient is septic or their lymph node system is infected.

  • Kary Mullis... such an intelligent man, who unfortunately engages in some very unintelligent things.

  • Very impressive...

    Is that Mark Hamill who came up on stage afterward?

  • nah i think it was michael j fox

  • Yeah you can cure cancer with 1 gram of Lysine per day too, FDA doesn't like that either. Also using a simple electronic device to pass EMF.

    The US had been sold out to large corporations. Why doesn't anyone on TED talk about that?

  • they don't allow any talks on politics. thats why

  • awesome

  • It sounds very exciting (I guess).....

    ....but I AM sick of hearing/reading reports of breakthroughs....and then you never hear about them again. Will that be the case with this? Why isn't this in the mainstream news?

  • Its not like they can do everything in a day, month, year, a few years, it takes a long time to progress with "breakthroughs"

    Its not in the media because it wouldn't sell as much as MJ or Sarah Palin

  • "Why isn't this in the mainstream news?"

    hmm, maybe because mainstream news media generates more attention by focusing on drama and trivialities than on reality.

  • Not true. The press appreciates the drama inherent in medical discoveries--they're always very quick to report them, too.

    The BAD part of this idea (perhaps. I'm not TRYING to dismiss it), is that having EXTREME immune reactions--that could occur from the apparent instantaneous HUGE presence of foreign protein throughout the body--is JUST as deadly, or moreso, than an infection itself.

    Look up "cytokine storm" to see what I mean.

  • Call me crazy, but it seems unlikely that the guy who won a Nobel would forget about that.

  • Really? He's not an MD, nor has the immune system been his area of expertise. It's not worth arguing here, but, so far, almost ALL such types of approaches to medical treatment have in fact been a disappointment....unfortunatel­y.

    I know, there WILL be breakthroughs with these types of approaches....no doubt. But....real breakthroughs will likely come for truly NEW and SURPRISING information--the immune system STILL is understood VERY imperfectly.....more

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  • Furthermore, you can't pass up an idea just because it MIGHT not work--you try it anyhow, even though there are potentially some big problems....typically you're RIGHT, and the problems you anticipated (and ones you didn't) spell failure for your idea. It's still worth it because SOMETIMES it works (or you learn something valuable even though it doesn't work).

  • Finally, journals are FILLED with potential treatments that worked GREAT with mice--and which ended as utter failures with people.....

    Still, I don't mean to disparage his ideas or his work--I'm trying to disparage irrational over-enthusiasm for ideas that haven't really been tested yet....enthusiasm which sometimes scientists themselves are most guilty of prematurely promoting.

  • Aye, I actually wondered 'what about cytokine storms' while watching this.

    Though, don't these cascades only occur when the body isn't familiar with a disease? In that case there wouldn't be much wrong with sticking that stuff on disease so your body will treat them as if they're familiar with it.

  • My only point was that there are always unanticipated "complications" involved in these kinds of approaches. The idea "works" when ALL such complications are overcome. That no human tests have been made shows that NONE of the anticipated (and UNanticipated) complications have been overcome

  • So why doesn't he cure them outside the US and make a fortune?

  • Who cares if it's "natural" ? Might as well say it was discovered by a guy named " Steve ".

    Natural is a bullshit marketing term.

  • Heh, it is very clear you lack knowledge.

    Go eat your artifical foods.. Syntetic is best for you.

    Let's just be clear on ONE thing here, you DO NOT DECIDE what the rest of us eat!

    So, legalize nature, start with cannabis!

    down with Codex Alimentarius. If you do not know what's going on, I feel sorry for you.

    Peace and love :)

  • i think we should make food grown with stemcells

  • I sense a lack of any real training in biology on your part.

  • here here!!! :)

  • Hey, legalization all the way, but dont dis synthetic foods.

    Hotpockets FTW

  • truely impressive, that method could have almost limitless potential

  • new hope !

    Truly remarkable...

  • Just brilliant!

  • But this makes me wonder. Can this drug be designed so that it attack virus infected cells? Aids in particular?! That would be a major breakthrough!

  • Simple and effective, LOVE IT!

  • When the camera pans around to the audience I was surprised by the number of bald heads.

  • just wait, ur turn's coming up. lol

  • Ahh don't say that.

  • speaker was fukin high!

  • Maybe he was high... What have you done though?

  • what have you done?

  • I'm finishing up a degree in Psychology. 日本語を勉強しています。日本にすんでいます。And I fought a silly war in Iraq. What have you done?

  • EGO Dissolution.

  • exactly what i was thinking. a different kind of buddha.

  • I don't believe in corporate work or war. I have nothing against honest labour.

  • Cool.

    Sometimes solutions to big problems can be pretty simple...

  • Wow this man is extremely intelligent

  • I absolutely, unequivocally, unconditionally love this man. He is truly one of the greatest minds of our time.

  • well done.

  • haha, fantastic.