User: hunter108

This guy believes & has a Nobel Prize in Bioch

On: Should Scientists Date People Who Believe Astrology?

Kary Mullis, Nobel-Prize-winning-biochemist, inventor-of-PCR, kind-of-a-big-deal, believes in astrology. I quote from his book "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field" from the chapter "I am a Capricorn,":

"A recent scientific study of the distribution of medical students in birth months discovered that a lot of medical students were born in late June. They postulated that it was because the sun was up earlier and so there was more light for them right away and they could be outside and therefore would get interested in biology. Well, that was bullshit. It's the same in Austrailia, and the sun is not up early in June down in the antipodes. Successful applicants to medical school do not come equally from each month. They cluster around Gemini-Cancer in both hemispheres. More biochemists are born in Sagittarius. Lawyers have their own distribution, and some people claim reasonably that lawyers hatch from eggs and eat their own young--not enough obviously--so they have their own separate problems. Sociology has so far turned a blind eye to these things. It could be that's one of the reasons sociology is so boring and such a worthless science. It's pedantic and uninformed.

I was born at 17:58 Greenwich Mean Time on December 28, 1944 in Lenoir, North Carolina. You can find out more about me from that than you can from reading this book."

Pretty sure someone's going to twist that last line into a way to blow him off, so let's have it.