Nobel Chemist Kary Mullis, Making Waves as a Mind Surfer

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Nobel Chemist Kary Mullis, Making Waves as a Mind Surfer

Washington Post (11/03/98) P. D1
Carlson, Peter

Nobel laureate chemist Kary Mullis has some distinctive opinions and character traits that set him apart from the average scientist. He defends astrology, surfs, advocates the cloning of dead celebrities' DNA, and does not believe that HIV causes AIDS. Mullis asserts that "there is zero data that could support the statement that HIV is the probable cause of AIDS." He argues that the people who originally developed AIDS had multiple parasites and that AIDS is a variety of diseases. Furthermore, he contends that the disease is not passed by sexual transmission and even that it does not constitute a disease. Mullis claims that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health push the disease since it is a prime source of funding. Stephen O'Brien, an AIDS researcher and head of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at NIH, notes that Mullis' opinion is very much the minority belief, calling Mullis' ideas "nonsense."

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