Not to mention the anti-evolutionists. One of the top people in retrovirology turned out to be a crank when AIDS was elucidated, and he couldn't see it. Peter

Not to mention the anti-evolutionists. One of the top people in retrovirology turned out to be a crank when AIDS was elucidated, and he couldn't see it. Peter Duesberg (duesberg.com). Also, HPV doesn't cause cancer, after all? He has got Kary Mullis, 1993 Nobel/chem for the polymerase chain reaction, on his side, anyway. Geology used to be full of cranks. Not just anti-tectonicists, but anti-catastrophists who could not abide bolide strikes. There are still many who can't accept a strike 13kya; they have fallen back on demanding a crater, knowing not all bolides leave one. A really great geology book, BTW, is "Reading the Rocks", by Marcia Bjornerud.