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★ 6.0/10 2009 1h 29m TV MovieDocumentary

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…

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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)

Movie details

Release date
2009-11-20
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
TV Movie, Documentary
Rating
6.0/10 (2 votes)
Language
SV
Country
Sweden
Director
Bosse Lindquist
Writer
Bosse Lindquist

Cast

Bosse Lindquist
Bosse Lindquist
Narrator
Michael Alpers
Michael Alpers
Himself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru
Warwick Anderson
Warwick Anderson
Professor in Medical Anthropology
Sena Anua
Sena Anua
Medical Reporter - PNGIMR
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Himself - Virologist - Anthropologist - Linguist - Author - etc
Robert Gajdusek
Robert Gajdusek
Brother
Robert Gallo
Robert Gallo
Himself - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV
Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks
Himself - Professor of Neurology and Author
Lovisa Mbagintao
Lovisa Mbagintao
Secretary
Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Himself - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot)

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