On Sat, 30 May 1998, den Otter wrote:
> Yes, Mr. Hayflick is apparently a couple o' bulbs short of enlightenment, as
> are most other "great minds" & cultural icons. Could it really be that, of the
> aprrox. 6 billion people on earth, only a couple of hundred or so really think
> rationally ?
He might be overly pessimistic about this, but Dr. Hayflick is a
great scientist. We might disagree with him on some points, but there is
no reason to call into question his intelligence and rationality.
This is the guy who in the 40's tore down the prevailing dogma
that cell cultures are immortal-- even though the field at the time was
dominated by a famous and very influential scientist named Alex Carel who
believed this. Hayflick repeated the experiments without the contamination
that Carel's lab was introducing into the cell cultures, got opposite
results, and stuck by them despite the flack he got for it for several
years.
--Sincerely, Alex F. Bokov
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