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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (11293)	10/27/1998 5:08:00 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

>That would be Kary Mullis. Polymerase Chain Reaction, certainly a scientist in a relevant field, but gone on to other things, sort of another astral plane even. Doesn't seem like the kind of scientist you might normally take seriously, Johannes.< Well. As I have already said, he did seem a bit fruity for my tastes, but he made clear the point that his spiritual views were not scientific, and he did not present himself as an authority even on spiritual matters. Since I did not think it reasonable to look to him for such matters, I dismissed them. But when he claimed there exists no scientific evidence that HIV causes AIDS, and then gave evidence for how the notion arrived, then the man's fruitiness became profoundly insignificant. It is the message upon which we must now focus, and not the messenger. The message and its evidence is what matters. Whereas we have nothing objective that would allow us to test his spiritual views (and even he acknowledges this), we do have something to test whether he tells the truth regarding science, and his Nobel Prize lends credence to notion of his abilities.