Here's another one: Lynn Margulis. HIV denial, weird ideas about spirochaetes making sperm tails, dismissing the whole field of population genetics, failing to understand evolution in general…it's embarrassingly bad. Dr Margulis had a weird idea once about endosymbiosis, and she was right — and now she's always off gallivanting towards the latest, weirdest, most untenable idea she can find. It's such a waste.
I think someone should arrange a conversation between Margulis and Wickramasinghe. Their egos will either synergize and produce a spectacular explosion of time-cube level kookiness, or they'll mutually annihilate each other. It's a risk I'm willing to take, for the lulz.
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Lynn Margulis died yesterday at her home in Amherst at the age of 73.
The chat with Lynn Margulis is over; thanks to Dr Margulis and all who participated. I've included the transcript below the fold.
The Lynn Margulis blog tour has moved on to Memoirs of a Skepchick—if you weren't satisfied with her answers here, you can try again.
Just because you were right yesterday doesn't mean you're going to be right tomorrow.