Kary Mullis

If the Nobel disease had a poster boy.

The woo is out there
UFOlogy

Aliens did it...

* Jose Escamilla
* Abydos helicopter
* Giorgio Tsoukalos
* Lead Masks Case
* Blue Planet Project
* Ra Material

...and ran away

* Church of Scientology
* Peter Kolosimo
* Piri Reis map
* Erich von Däniken
* Giorgio Tsoukalos
* Ronald Story

v \- t \- e

Not just a river in Egypt
Denialism

Alternative facts

* One single proof
* Acid rain
* Anti-relativity
* Typhoid Mary
* HIV/AIDS denialism
* 2020 United States presidential election

♫ We're not listening ♫

* John Yiamouyiannis
* Rick Perry
* André Vltchek
* Beppe Grillo
* JonTron
* Trish Regan

v \- t \- e

“”Once he turned on the lights and left sacks of groceries on the floor, he lighted his path to the outhouse with a flashlight. On the way, he saw something glowing under a fir tree. Shining the flashlight on this glow, it seemed to be a raccoon with little black eyes. The raccoon spoke, saying, ‘Good evening, doctor,’ and he replied with a hello.

—You read that correctly. We are not kidding.[1]

Kary Banks Mullis (1944–2019)[2] was a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, best known for developing the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), unquestionably one of the most important tools in molecular biology.

Unfortunately, he had a number of less-founded views that he publicly expounded upon.

## Contents

* 1 Where's the beef?
* 2 Crank views
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Where's the beef?[edit]

Given that he claimed that his LSD use had a major role in his work on PCR (James Watson, one of the discoverers of DNA, made similar claims with respect to his development of DNA as a concept prior to empirically confirming it),[3] it is perhaps unsurprising that he held a number of bizarre views on subjects outside his specialty, and endorsed various and sundry conspiracy theories and pseudosciences.

## Crank views[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Nobel disease

“”Being a Nobel laureate is a license to be an expert in lots of things as long as you do your homework.

—Mullis[4]

To name a few:

* AIDS Denialism: Mullis hung around with noted AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg and believed AIDS is a conspiracy involving the government and scientists.

“”We have not been able to discover any good reasons why most of the people on earth believe that AIDS is a disease caused by a virus called HIV. There is simply no scientific evidence demonstrating that this is true."

—Mullis, in a foreward to Duesberg's book[5]:xiii

* Alien abduction: Mullis claimed he had had an encounter with an extraterrestrial being, in which he denied the involvement of LSD. More specifically -- he reported having close contact with a glowing green raccoon at his cabin in the woods of northern California around midnight one night in 1985. No, really.[1]
* Aliensdidit: Mullis saw evidence of Urantia Book scientific foreknowledge, writing "Several scientific developments, unexpected in 1955, reported in 2005 in Science and Nature […] were somehow described rather precisely already in the Urantia Book."[6]
* Astrology[7]
* Climate change denialism[7]

## See also[edit]

* Nobel disease

## References[edit]

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bullard, Thomas, "The Myth and Mystery of UFOs", LRB (Review) (UK) 33 (22)
2. ↑ Kary Mullis, eccentric Berkley-educated chemistry Nobelist, dies by Peter Fimrite (Aug. 10, 2019 Updated: Aug. 10, 2019 11:02 p.m.) San Francisco Chronicle.
3. ↑ Mullis on LSD
4. ↑ Kary B. Mullis The Nobel Prize.
5. ↑ Inventing The AIDS Virus by Peter Duesberg (1996) .
6. ↑ Seriously.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 NYT: Bright Scientists, Dim Notions