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“”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.
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—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.
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.
“”Being a Nobel laureate is a license to be an expert in lots of things as long as you do your homework.
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—Mullis[4] |
To name a few:
“”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."
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—Mullis, in a foreward to Duesberg's book[5]:xiii |