Book Description
Here are the outrageous ideas and extraordinary adventures of
the world's most eccentric and outspoken Nobel Prize-winning
scientist. Awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993, Kary
Mullis has frequently been at odds with the scientific
establishment. Legendary for his invention of the polymerase
chain reaction (PCR), which redefined the world of DNA and
genetics, Mullis is also an accomplished surfer, a veteran of
Berkeley in the sixties, and perhaps the only Nobel laureate
to describe a possible encounter with aliens. A scientist of
boundless curiosity who refuses to accept any proposition
based on secondhand or hearsay evidence, he is brilliant,
funny, provocative, and charismatic.
In Dancing Naked in the Mind Field Mullis writes with
passion and humor about a wide range of subjects: from the
scientific method to parapsychology, from poisonous spiders
to the HIV virus and AIDS, from global warming to astrology,
from the O. J. Simpson trial to how you can turn a light bulb
on with your mind. A multidimensional playland of ideas, this
book challenges us to question the authority of scientific
dogma even as it reveals the workings of an uncannily
original scientific