Never in medical history has a diagnostic tool been given so much authority as the PCR test, which has been used to detect the CCP virus and determine who is quarantined, which businesses may open, and how many people can gather together. Many policymakers rely solely on rising positive cases derived from the PCR test, and not on death or hospitalization rates, to implement restrictive measures to try and stop the transmission of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus that causes the disease COVID-19. But the “gold standard” PCR test is now under investigation as an international team of scientists calls for the retraction of a study that details the first PCR test protocol to detect the CCP virus, claiming there were serious technical and scientific errors. The study, referred to as the Corman-Drosten paper (pdf), “aimed to develop and deploy robust diagnostic methodology for use in public health laboratory …