Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis expressed his astonishment at the credulousness of the scientific community. For him, it defied common sense that, after hundreds of years of scientific research, one medical scientist, Bob Gallo, had suddenly discovered the true cause of thirty ancient diseases in the United States and Europe, and a retinue of at least thirty more in Africa, and traced them all to a simple creature with a hundred thousand relations, none of them known to cause any disease. “Things don’t happen that fast in science. You don’t suddenly notice that one new organism is causing every
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