Wabbit Hole Subway: Abundance Year Episode 1996 (audio: noxsoma.substack.com)
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Saturday 13, June 2026
Abundance Year Episode 1996
Noxsoma Life Camp:
Wabbit Hole Subway
Omnipotence
Rabbit Hole Local
We’re questioning the reality of DNA.
Today's Episode: https://odysee.com/@Noxsoma:2/1931_full_6-13-26_1996_subway:c?r=47k2ScJsm9Uex9eETqgCCA8q1fukdST9
Miss Adventures in DNA.
Somehow I got it in my brain that DNA could be fraudulent. Then I got it in brain that it might actually be fraudulent. Lately, like at the start of this century, I became very dubious of humans who claim to practice “science,” especially when such science just happens to be profitable, or can somehow be used to further an agenda. Maybe to control, track and trace a population, for example. I don’t have any problem with actual scientists. They are curious explorers. I have a lot of respect for that. Often, it’s the scientists who are trying to help humanity. Unless of course they are German scientists. Just kidding. Or am I? You know German scientists’ reputations when it comes to chemistry and biology, don’t you? But, as usual, I digress. But just look what happened with LSD. But I digressed from the digression. That’s a first for this blog.
Nonetheless, there’s something I don’t trust about DNA. But maybe it’s not DNA that I don’t trust. It’s humans. And maybe it’s the way it’s been touted as this way to identify, and that means catalog and control, humans.
However, before I went on another one of my dumb-guy science rants, I figured I should do a little bit of research on this, “acidic chemical found in the nucleus, made of a special sugar (ribose), that is missing an oxygen atom. (de-oxy means, “no oxygen”). That’s why this stuff is called, De-oxy-ribo Nucleic Acid.
Declaimer: This is not a dissertation, or scholarly endeavor. I just want to know how this stuff went from some Swiss Dude, sloshing around in pus in Germany, to cloning sheep, to Jurassic Park, to criminal justice technology to 23 & Me, to a biometric panopticon.
DNA was first identified in 1869 by Swiss physician and biologist, Friedrich Miescher. While studying white blood cells, he isolated a substance he called, "nuclein," which we now know as DNA. However, its structure and role in heredity were uncovered later. in 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick, using data from Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, proposed the double helix model of DNA.
Did you catch that? The double-helix model was a “proposal.”
What does “propose” mean? “To put forward or offer for consideration.”
These guys saw X’s on the X-ray, declared it an “unmistakable” helix pattern, made a 3D model, and the rest? Well let’s see what came next.
DNA might actually be a double helix, there’s some shady science competition in the story though. Including the early death, (by cancer), of the only female researcher in the story. But that’s a wabbit hole within a wabbit hole, that we’re already too deep into.
Here’s a quick timeline from pus soaked bandages to super stardom. Think of Norma Jeane Mortenson, the unknown stain that became one of America’s all-time movie icons, Marilyn Monroe. She didn’t get there on her own. You might be too young to have ever read a Fan Magazine, nonetheless, consider the hyperbolic bend to this timeline. (I have added my own cynical comments from the research.)
1869, The Discovery (The "Dead" Molecule). Friedrich Miescher isolates, "nuclein" from pus soaked bandages. He has no idea what it does. For nearly a century, scientists believe proteins, not this simple molecule, are the stuff of heredity. (Maybe it is proteins.)
1953, The Structure (The "Secret" of Life). James Watson and Francis Crick, using Rosalind Franklin's Xray images, (passed on to them without her consent), unveil the double helix. The structure instantly reveals how life copies itself, a mechanism for heredity is finally found.
1970s, The Tool (The Genetic Scissors). Scientists discover restriction enzymes, which act as molecular scissors to cut DNA at specific spots. This is the invention of gene cloning and DNA sequencing. For the first time, you can isolate, read, and copy a specific gene. (The Super Soldier/DNA cloning movies will emerge in the early 1990s.)
1984 The First DNA Fingerprint. (The Eureka in the Dark). British geneticist Sir Alec Jeffreys accidentally discovers that certain DNA regions vary wildly from person to person. He invents genetic fingerprinting. (Notice the “accidental”discovery. I have not looked into this, yet. But it’s tempting.)
1985, 1986, The First Crime Solved (Law Enforcement Begins). In England, a double rape/murder leads police to ask Jeffreys for help. Colin Pitchfork becomes the first person convicted of a violent crime using DNA evidence. An innocent man (Richard Buckland) is the first exonerated by DNA before the real killer is found.
(Rewind, we will play this again for you folks in the back. The same guy, a British Knight, who “accidentally” discovered, “genetic fingerprinting” a year or two earlier, is called on to help solve a violent crime. The suspect, as previously mentioned was convicted based on DNA evidence. But wait, this is a two-fer, because you get an innocent man exonerated of the same crime, using… you-guessed-it, DNA.)
1990, The Human Genome Project & Jurassic Park, (The Big Promises). Two cultural moments happen at once. (What? Again? Just like the previous tale.)
1. The Project. An international consortium launches the Human Genome Project, (HGP) with a $3 billion goal to read all 3 billion letters of human DNA.
2. The Movie. Michael Crichton publishes Jurassic Park (film in 1993). The premise, extracting ancient DNA from amber to clone dinosaurs, This captures the public imagination, even though scientists know ancient DNA is too degraded to work. This is the Marilyn Monroe version of standing over the subway vent and having her white dress blow upwards, and a photog catching it at the exact right moment.
- Dolly the Sheep (The Clone). Scientists in Scotland clone Dolly from an adult mammary cell. The "impossible" is done, raising the real ethical debates that Jurassic Park fictionalized.
- Alien Resurrection is released. Ellen Ripley is cloned 200 years after her death, resulting in a being with superhuman strength and alien DNA mixed with her own.
2000 – 2003. The Human Genome is "Finished." (The Map). President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair announce a draft of the human genome. The complete sequence is published in 2003. It’s not an end, but a new beginning.
- The Revolution (CRISPR Cas9). Scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier discover CRISPR, a gene-editing tool borrowed from bacteria. It acts like "find-and-replace" for DNA. cheap, easy, and precise. (Like discount stereo equipment.)
Last year I did this stand-up philosophy piece about how, “Government Science” makes up a “substance,” then decides what they want to do with it, and then decides what they want this substance to do. Then the public relations begins. I didn’t know last year, that there was intrigue involved, or death, or a lot of murky shish. That might be part of the pattern too. The rest of the pattern includes, notoriety and celebration. The Nobel Prize was awarded to the surviving researchers in 1962. (James Watson passed just last year at age 97.) Then there’s the “real life” application. Coincidentally occurring within a few years of an “accidental” discovery. A culprit named “Pitchfork” with no family lineage, just his Mum, his wife and two sons, unnamed of course.
Then DNA and cloning starts showing up on cop dramas on TV and movies. Quiet little nods to DNA is Sci-Fi series and such. Then the data-collecting begins with the “find your great-great-great-great-grandmomma” promotions.
In my LP, “Writing Fiction,” I told those suckers I wasn’t falling for their DNA bluff. I’m not a lawyer, and this isn’t legal advice, but there are enough “shadows” let’s call them in DNA history to cause serious doubt. But I’m not going to be the test case. I’m just gonna sit back and watch the show. Maybe if someone brings up DNA at a cocktail party, I will be at least fairly well versed to toss some doubt-bombs into the mix. Just for fun.
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