Kary Mullis

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Kary Mullis is a Nobel prize-winning biochemist, best known for developing the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), unquestionably one of the most important tools in molecular biology. Given that he has claimed that his LSD use had a major role in his work on PCR (James Watson, the discoverer of DNA, notably made similar claims with respect to his development of DNA as a concept prior to empirically confirming it),[1] it is perhaps unsurprising that he holds a number of bizarre views on subjects outside his specialty, and is noted for endorsing various and sundry conspiracy theories and pseudosciences. To name a few:

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  1. Mullis on LSD
  2. 2.0 2.1 If you want to know what the environmentalists have to do with it, you'll have to read his book, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field.
  3. 3.0 3.1 NYT: Bright Scientists, Dim Notions
  4. Seriously.
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