Robert Root-Bernstein
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Professor Robert Root-Bernstein (b. August 7, 1953) (PhD, Princeton University) is a professor of life sciences at Michigan State University. In 1981, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, the "genius grant."
He has also been researching and consulting on creativity for more than fifteen years. Among other books, he has authored Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge, and Rethinking AIDS, a book questioning the connection between HIV and AIDS.
Root-Bernstein continues to believe that HIV alone is not sufficient to cause AIDS, and that researchers should investigate co-factors: "Both the camp that says HIV is a pussycat and the people who claim AIDS is all HIV are wrong." Nevertheless, he is critical of those who argue that HIV is harmless, saying, "The denialists make claims that are clearly inconsistent with existing studies. When I check the existing studies, I don’t agree with the interpretation of the data, or, worse, I can’t find the studies [at all]."[1]
[edit] Books authored
- "Discovering: Finding and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Science," Harvard University Press, 1989.
- Rethinking AIDS: The Tragic Cost of Premature Consensus, Free Press, 1993, ISBN 0-02-926905-9
- "Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels," (with Michele Root-Bernstein), Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
- "Sparks of Genius. The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People," Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
[edit] External links
- Robert Root-Bernstein's faculty web site at Michigan State University
- The Heretic, GQ, November 1993
[edit] References
- ^ "Dead Certain?" by Bob Lederer. Published in POZ magazine April 2006. Accessed 31 Oct 2006.
