Weekend Rebel Science Excursion - 60

Putting A Face
on Machine Mutation

I. Look Back

It has been several years since Dredd Blog did a "Weekend Rebel Science Excursion" type post (Weekend Rebel Science Excursion - 59), cf. "SCIENCE (of the rebellion" on the Series Posts N-Z page).

II. A Tale of Two Sciences

In the real world there are commercial scientists who work for and are controlled by corporations and corporate interests, and there are non-commercial scientists who do science to properly fact find, no matter what commercial corporate scientists think about it.

An example would be tobacco/cigarette company scientists versus scientists who discovered that smoking causes cancer and other sicknesses (Smoke & Fumes).

Another example would be oil company scientists versus environmental scientists who discovered that we are in the Sixth Mass Extinction because of oil company activities (Smoke & Fumes).

III. Today's Rebellion

I have been skeptical of the commercial virology scientists in several Dredd Blog series that concern genes and viruses of microbes and viruses (On the Origin of the Genes of Viruses, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16; On The Origin Of The Home Of COVID-19, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24; The Uncertain Gene, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).

The skepticism and criticism is borne of their failure to determine the extent of the damage that the mass-production-of-animals-for-food industry has done by the indiscriminate overuse of antibiotics and other chemicals that indiscriminately kill microbes and damage viruses.

IV. Today's Data & Effort

As I remarked in a previous post, I have placed "GenBank" GBFF file data into my SQL server, and have written several C++ programs to analyze the data. 

That GenBank data has to do with virus genomes of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-1, and SARS-CoV-2.

Today, what the software program I am talking about does is: 

1) load the data and report:

"total virus genomes loaded: 178,109 rows

loaded: 8 C1 rows
loaded: 1,586 CO rows
loaded: 176,515 C2 rows

(viruses with insufficient genes/nucleotides: 44,747)"

2) search for coronavirus("CO") genes in SARS-CoV-1 ("C1")viruses:

"search type: CO_in_C1
rows with 0 genes: 0
one or both genes void (no comparison): 0
matches: 4 (out of 85,350 gene comparisons)"

3) search for  coronavirus("CO") genes in SARS-CoV-2 ("C2")viruses:

"search type: CO_in_C2
rows with 0 genes: 0
one or both genes void (no comparison): 0
matches: 583 (out of 2,358,998,843 gene comparisons)"

4) search for  coronavirus("C1") genes in SARS-CoV-2 ("C2")viruses:

"search type: C1_in_C2
rows with 0 genes: 0
one or both genes void (no comparison): 0
matches: 0 (out of 11,295,835 gene comparisons)"

The process involves extracting the genes of a virus, then one by one comparing that gene with the genes of all the other viruses (On The Origin of the Genes of Viruses - 17).

The purpose is to see if there is any gene preservation as there would be if a gene was fit to do what an evolved gene would have to do to perform like a well-made machine.

The result indicates that:

"0 out of 11,295,835" comparisons;

"583 out of 2,358,998,843" comparisons;

and "4 out of 85,350" comparisons.

(583 + 4 out of 11,295,835+2,358,998,843+85,350) indicate shrapnel as the result of damage rather than survival of the fittest gene as a result of selection of the most fit uncertainty (The Uncertain Gene - 2).

V. Closing Comments

It is time for commercial scientists to "come out" and own their religion (The Machine Religion) like Bernays did (The Ways of Bernays).

The previous post in this series is here.

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