It was never meant to be (and cannot be) a test at all. As you say, it is a manufacturing technique. It replicates a substance faster than previous techniques could, so that the substance can be studied in a lab.
As the inventor, Kari Mullis said, "It is a process whereby you can take a little bit of something and make a whole lot of something." That is all. It allows researchers to more quickly study that something.
It is not a test to determine the health of anyone for any purpose.
But it is fraudulently being used exactly for that. They have done the same thing with HIV, and Mullis called them out on it, saying they were misusing the process.
It was never meant to be (and cannot be) a test at all. As you say, it is a manufacturing technique. It replicates a substance faster than previous techniques could, so that the substance can be studied in a lab.
As the inventor, Kari Mullis said, "It is a process whereby you can take a little bit of something and make a whole lot of something." That is all. It allows researchers to more quickly study that something.
It is not a test to determine the health of anyone for any purpose.
But it is fraudulently being used exactly for that. They have done the same thing with HIV, and Mullis called them out on it, saying they were misusing the process.
And who was the exploiter for HIV? Dr. Magoo Fauci.
He is certainly Prime Suspect #1.