89m •
2009
D Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Prions - the particles that would emerge as the cause of Mad Cow disease - while working with a cannibal tribe on New Guinea. He was a star of the scientific world. Over his years working amongst the tribes of the South Seas, he adopted 57 kids, bringing them to a new life in Washington DC. His adoptions were hailed as wonderful fatherly beneficence. But, at the height of his career, rumours began to spread he was a paedophile. Gajdusek would argue that if sex with children was okay in their own cultures, he wasn't wrong to join in. How could a great mind like Gajdusek's lose insight so totally, and why would the scientific community to which he was a hero be so quick to leap to his defence and dismiss the allegations? (Storyville)
2010•
5.5
2008•
5.4
1996•
0
2019•
7.0
2020•
8.0
2020•
7.5
2018•
7.4
2009•
6.0
1939•
6.0
2020•
0
1988•
5.2
1955•
6.0
ARTE GEIE •
BBC Storyville • GB
DR-Dokumentar •
Eight Millimetres • SE
SVT Dokumentär •
Svenska Filminstitutet • SE
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Himself - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot)
