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To: Jill who wrote (188929)	3/6/2009 1:02:17 PM
From: Think4Yourself	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

OT: If you look through history you find that the most brilliant scientific minds are usually ridiculed by their mediocre peers at the time of their discoveries. Many times they have been punished or put to death for thinking intelligently. This was especially true when the religious people were also the governing people (hey, kinda like George Bush!). I can't say anything about the brilliant political minds. When I look through history I can't find any (except for possibly Adolph Hitler), at least not in the last 1,000 years.

To: Jill who wrote (188929)	3/6/2009 1:14:53 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

She's long been considered off the deep end. Hanging out with James Lovelock doesn't help. What I think is going for her is that only in the last couple of years with rapid (and cheap genome sequencing) has the magnitude of horizontal gene transfer started to be appreciated, and with it, a renewed interest in endosymbiosis. Of course, there are many others who contributed to the field. I'd expect some Nobels to be handed out for such a significant aspect of biology within the next decade or so. There have been some related ones already IIRC.