Strange Country Ep. 273: Kary Mullis
We're sure you've heard of the Nobel Prize although it's hard to make the case Beth has since she mispronounces it quite a bit in this episode. But have you heard of Nobel Disease? It's when people are labeled geniuses and go on to embrace some whackadoodle pseudoscience. In today's Strange Country episode, Beth and Kelly discuss Kary Mullis, the only Nobel winner to be referred to as "generally barking mad." He discovered the polymerase chain reaction, which we all regularly employed when we wanted to make dang certain it wasn't covid.
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