While I haven't done a good job in researching this because I don't really think it is worth my time getting worked up over, I remember hearing that the inventor or one of the minds behind the PCR test was opposed to it being used this way and then he mysteriously died a bit later. Is that right?
On another note I sincerely hope that the history books in the future will expose this period of time as the biggest fraud ever pulled on the entire world.
Yep, Kary Mullis loudly stated many times that the PCR is an amplification tool, not a diagnostic tool, and should not be used fro diagnostics, because you can find anything with it if you run enough cycles.