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Walter Gilbert , je americký fyzik, biochemik, podnikatel, a průkopník molekulární biologie.

Narodil se v Bostonu, Massachusetts a studoval v Sidwellovi Friends Schoolu, na Harvard University a Universitě v Cambridge. Společně s Allanem Maxamem objevili novou metodu řazení DNA.

Gilbert byl v roce 1980 oceněný Nobelovou cenou za chemii s Frederickem Sangerem. Gilbert a Sanger byli odměněni za průkopnickou práci v metodice sekvenování, tedy určování pořadí nukleotidů v nukleové kyselině.

Koncem roku 1980 Walter Gilbert zpochybnil roli HIV v AIDS.

V současné době je předsedou správní rady Harvard Society Fellows. Wikipedia  

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“The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.”

Meditel (1990)
Kontext: The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints. If you simply have a consensus, it generally stultifies. It fails to see the problems of that consensus and it depends on the existence of critics to break up that iceberg and permit knowledge to develop. This is in fact one of the underpinnings of democratic theory. It is one of the reasons why we believe in notions of free speech and it's one of the great forces in terms of intellectual development.

“I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's.”

Personal communication (4 April 2006) quoted in "Well, someone has to do it" at Moment of Science (July 2006) http://momentofscience.blogspot.com/2006/07/well-someone-has-to-do-it.html
Kontext: I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic — the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. … Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the failure of the immune system (only expected if the virus is the cause of the failure) as a reasonable proof of the causation argument