Yeah, I know. But the headline is so egregiously anti-intellectual that it's embarrassing to see it in an academic context. And it's worse, because they're doing it to cater to their audience.
Then of course, they had to make it explicitly political, with the inclusion of this quote:
> Schekman, who calls Mullis’s Nobel a “complete fluke,” compares him to the man in the White House. “He’s the molecular biology equivalent of Donald Trump in terms of his personal behavior,” he says.
And they end the article with this line:
> Maybe the best way to remember Mullis and his invention of PCR is to make some space for the others who made it a reality.
It's just childishness. Whatever other bad things the man did, he really did invent PCR, which changed the world forever.
Then of course, they had to make it explicitly political, with the inclusion of this quote:
> Schekman, who calls Mullis’s Nobel a “complete fluke,” compares him to the man in the White House. “He’s the molecular biology equivalent of Donald Trump in terms of his personal behavior,” he says.
And they end the article with this line:
> Maybe the best way to remember Mullis and his invention of PCR is to make some space for the others who made it a reality.
It's just childishness. Whatever other bad things the man did, he really did invent PCR, which changed the world forever.