Here is a multidimensional playland of ideas from the world's
most eccentric Nobel-Prize winning scientist. Kary Mullis is
legendary for his invention of PCR, which redefined the world of
DNA, genetics, and forensic science. He is also a surfer, a veteran
of Berkeley in the sixties, and perhaps the only Nobel laureate to
describe a possible encounter with aliens. A scientist of boundless
curiosity, he refuses to accept any proposition based on secondhand
or hearsay evidence, and always looks for the "money
trail" when scientists make announcements. Mullis writes with
passion and humor about a wide range of topics: from global warming
to the O. J. Simpson trial, from poisonous spiders to HIV, from
scientific method to astrology. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
challenges us to question the authority of scientific dogma even as
it reveals the workings of an uncannily original scientific mind.
