An interview with Kary Mullis, inventor of the polymerase chain reaction. Anyone who will be in the medical or scientific community should read this shit. It's really interesting and funny, and the article is a good read.

http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/cfmullis.htm

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5/19/2006 6:53:36 PM

i've met this guy. he seemed a bit nicer than Craig Venter

5/19/2006 7:01:50 PM

no shit? where did you meet him at?

craig venter is kind of scary. i dont know if id want to meet him, although the stuff he is doing now looks fun.

5/19/2006 7:05:37 PM

A number of Nobel Laureates seem to have gone astray in their careers after winning the prize.
Brian Josephson is one:
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/
he seems to be into the paranormal, ESP, and other shit. Linus Pauling and Charles Townes are two others that come to mind too.
I don't know how to explain it. Maybe its because being awarded the prize causes your ego to blow up so much it destroys whatever bullshit detector you once had.

5/19/2006 7:56:46 PM

Quote :

"its because being awarded the prize causes your ego to blow up so much it destroys whatever bullshit detector you once had."

5/19/2006 8:03:48 PM

^^if you read the article, you would have read that kary mullis was always like that even before he got his nobel prize.

5/19/2006 8:09:09 PM

at 2 different Genome Sequencing conferences. one in Miami, one in Boston.

5/19/2006 10:33:05 PM