Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780679442554ISBN:0679442553
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780679442554ISBN:0679442553
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 2000-01-01
ISBN-13:9780679774006ISBN:0679774009
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780679774006ISBN:0679774009
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Description: New in no jacket. pp. 222. Awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Kary Mullis has frequently been at odds with the scientific establishment. He is brilliant, funny, provocative & charismatic. Here Mullis writes with passion & humor about a wide range of subjects: from the scientific method to parapsychology, from cloning to the HIV virus & AIDS, from global warming to astrology & religion, from the O.J. Simpson trial to a method for ... read more
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York
Date Published: 1998
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780747545538ISBN:0747545537
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon
Date Published: 1998-08-25
ISBN-13:9780679442554ISBN:0679442553
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780679442554ISBN:0679442553
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Kary Mullis, known to us bio dorks as the guy who invented PCR, reflects on growing up, synthesizing psychoactive compounds in a garage in college, dropping acid and inhaling a whole lot of nitrous while working for Cetus (oh, and coming up with PCR), winning the Nobel Prize, hitting on the empress of Japan, the OJ trial, being abducted by aliens, and my favorite-- being paid 7 grand NOT to give a talk at Glaxo. A fantastic read."
"Somewhat winding book with little point by an ego-inflated nobel prize winner. Chapters are self-contained, so it is sort of a book of essays. Some of them attempt to be "otherworldly" re: mind-reading. I wasn't impressed."
"It wasn't as funny as I thought it would be from reading all the reviews.
And I just couldn't accept many of his views. His AIDS denialism, believing in astrology and denying that global warming is taking place. Since the book was written in 1998, I wonder if he has changed his mind of some of his views, seeing that there had been more evidence supporting these issues.
The few chapters he wrote on AIDS was absolutely horrible. You can almost say that he has no clue as to what a virus is or even know the definition of immunology. It was a misguided and ignorant viewpoint.
What's worse? He was so vocal about all these theories and believes lacking scientific evidence, especially the one on HIV, complaining they did not have proper citations or references, but guess what, his book does not even have a reference section. Most books I've read written by scientists have had a reference section at the end, even if it is a biography, that's what they're trained to do. His doesn't. Maybe my book is missing a few pages.
Hypocrisy. Oh hypocrisy.
Regardless, he deserves credit for PCR and there are a few pages that I did enjoy in the book. That earned him the extra star."
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