Balance Discussion from a Nobel Laureate (Score 1)

If people are further interested, Kary Mullis wrote some really shocking things in Dancing Naked in the Mind Field. He's the Nobel-winning chemist who invented the polymerase chain reaction for replicating DNA. He talks about the journalist slant in the science world being a bi-product of money-oriented scientists using the media to make themselves rich through popular punditry. This leads to mainstream acceptance of major theories before they've been scientifically proven. As a pretty shocking example, Dr. Mullis cites that even though the link is credible, something as important to our society as HIV has not yet been scientifically proven to lead to AIDS, yet the theory is unquestioningly accepted. While HIV almost certainly does lead to AIDS, the science is behind the popular acceptance, and the media is the cause.