Cresting controversy
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Unconventional Nobel laureate Kary Mullis believes there is no evidence to support the claim that HIV causes Aids and has volunteered to publicly revise his position if researchers can provide him with any proof. He believes the link was devised by the US Center for Disease Control to justify its budget. Mullis believes Aids is more of a social condition than a single disease. Mullis invented the revolutionary polymerase chain reaction technique, but claims to be disinterested in the commercial aspects of science. He also encourages scientists to be more open-minded about astrology.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1999
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Making a bang at Bell
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Arno Penzias was awarded a Nobel Price for his work on the Big Bang theory of the universe. He has retired from the Bell Labs of AT and T, which was a key physical sciences lab during the 1960s, and able to fund research into a variety of areas. Penzias had the task of detecting signals that might be emanating from the Milky Way, when he first joined the lab. He later had to cut the amount of academic research that could be carried out at bell Labs, due to financial constraints.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1999
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Chemical war in Whitehall
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The government has launched an interdepartmental review of organophosphates (OP). The OP information network support group currently has details of 600 cases of chronic OP poisoning, with a further 1200 veterans of the Gulf war complaining of similar symptoms. Organophosphate pesticides are used regularly across the UK and the chemicals can also be found in items such as lice-treatment shampoo.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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