Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

Kary Mullis, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry and inventor of the polymerase chain reaction, writes about his ideas, adventures and frequent clashes with the scientific establishment. A surfer and a veteran of Berkeley in the sixties, he is perhaps the one Nobel laureate who has described what may have been an encounter with aliens. Mullis refuses to accept claims that rest on secondhand or hearsay evidence. His subjects range widely: astrology and parapsychology, HIV and AIDS, poisonous spiders, global warming, the scientific method, the O. J. Simpson trial and a way of turning on a light bulb with the mind. He urges readers to question the authority of scientific dogma.

Peter Attia lists it among reads he considers important for people who want to follow his career path, in Peter Attia: In Search of Still Water.