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:
- AIDS Denialism. Mullis pals around with noted AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg and believes AIDS is a conspiracy involving the government, scientists, and environmentalists.[2]
- Climate change denialism.[3]
- Aliensdidit. Mullis sees 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."[4]
- Alien abduction. Mullis claims he has encountered an extraterrestrial being.[2]
- Astrology.[3]
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- ↑ Mullis on LSD
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 NYT: Bright Scientists, Dim Notions
- ↑ Seriously.