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bhickey
1 day ago
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James Watson has died
You might be thinking of Kary Mullis, who supposedly came up with PCR while riding his motorcycle on LSD.
hooskerdu
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I thought he was driving in his car up a mountain with his wife/girlfriend asleep in the passenger seat.
I need to re-read his book
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acjohnson55
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Riding a motorcycle on LSD is nuts
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bhickey
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Mullis was a nutcase. He got banned from at least one conference for including porn in his slides.
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