A Scientist Finds Independence
Bethell, Tom
Independ atthew Robinson, 13, has a Colt .45 strapped to his waist as he practices the piano in the living room. He lives on a 350-acre farm in southern Oregon, with his brothers and sisters,...
...Something from Vince Lombardi's play-book, perhaps...
...Art asked if she wanted to go to the emergency room but she said no...
...Next to the piano is a huge home-made wood-burning stove...
...They had tested 80 of these possibilities in peptides (miniature pro-teins) and showed that the order in which they were posi-tioned could dramatically change the "half-life" of the turnover, from days to decades...
...With radiation, nonetheless, the operative principle has been "zero tolerance," permitting environmentalists not just to stop nuclear tests, but to demonize nuclear power and to stymie the disposal of nuclear waste as well- with little discussion of the evidence...
...She wasn't dead yet, but her heart had almost stopped...
...But this new paper, "Molecular Clocks," based on research mostly done on an Oregon farm with his own son, is "the best scientific paper I have ever had my name on," he says...
...Unknown people are filling in this false information on mail-in cards from maga-zines...
...The largest, with 10,000 square feet of floor space, houses the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, founded by Art Robinson in 1980...
...As it is, most of them are trapped...
...of Science and Medicine was not qualified to comment because it has "no mainframe computers," and its "secret sources of funding" were "undoubtedly" oil-industry related...
...His older brother Noah, 22, was the top chemistry graduate applicant to MIT, but chose instead to go to his father's school, Caltech...
...As for politically sensitive areas such as The American Spectator . February 2001 37 global warming, "your research had better come up with the results they want...
...At the mouse-equivalent of 10 grams of Vitamin C a day- Paul-ing's recommended dose for humans-the mice were getting more cancer, not less...
...And you can't tell what will happen when you set a man free...
...The work was difficult to do in those days, even with the help of graduate students...
...The mass spectrometer cost $150,000 second hand...
...They started to tell lies about him...
...Meanwhile, Art ruefully points out, the hormesis data show that Oregon is not a particularly good place to live...
...We won this fight without firing a shot," Art told his friends, "but only because we were prepared to shoot...
...She slept in the living room to be closer to the electric heaters...
...Pauling also told lab assistants to kill the 400 mice used for the experiments...
...Low background lev-els of radiation seem to be good for you...
...Art has no employees -another triumph of the computer revolution...
...Independ atthew Robinson, 13, has a Colt .45 strapped to his waist as he practices the piano in the living room...
...The president backed down at the last minute...
...Inside there was an electrical hum, but few people...
...At the new institute, on Sandhill Road, Robinson devised some mouse experiments to test this amazing theory...
...The evidence that the "linear extrapolation to zero" is wrong, accumulated by Bernard L. Cohen, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Pittsburgh, comes from many sources...
...Real guns were also unthinkable, until Art felt the children were old enough...
...Jane Orient of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, visiting from Tucson, was working alone in the small library...
...Now this undergrowth is accumulating in the forests, where it increas-es the dangers of forest fires...
...Art once summarized his approach to cultural warfare as fol-lows: "It is fine to complain about those who would do evil...
...Paper recycling has also destroyed the market for forest undergrowth...
...Beckmann had printed the newsletter on his own press for 20 years...
...We don't know what those timers are, but when we find that the basic building blocks of life have clocks built into them, and we find that they are used to time short term processes, it is reasonable to predict that there are also clocks that time aging itself...
...There are tens of thousands of different kinds of proteins in the body, each participating in different activities, and the discovery that two of the amino acids in these proteins were "hydrolyzing," or changing structurally when combined with water, suggested that a fundamental mechanism of living organisms was at work...
...Yet this is the best way in which to make progress...
...So this could be timing the biological function of the protein," Robinson said...
...In his newsletter, Art said his father was "sim-ply head over heels in love with chemical plants...
...D in Boston, gave the name Jerry Halliwell...
...But the chances are a little better...
...Robinson is using it to work on "molecular clocks" in the body...
...A subscription costs $35 for individuals, $150 for tax-subsidized organizations (one or two do pay full freight...
...Without the computer technology, the home-schooling profits and generous donors it wouldn't have been possible...
...But they all have about the same biochemistry," Art pointed out...
...A physicist with the Union of Concerned Sci-entists told radio listeners in New York that the Oregon Institute neering at the University of Colorado...
...By 1988, the six Robinson children ranged in age from 12 to one and a half...
...All her blood was in her peritoneal cavity...
...The American Spectator . February 2001...
...This is the real world, and these people are trying to shut off half of humanity's energy supplies...
...At graduate school, Art hoped that he would one day do path-breaking work in science...
...So it should be stopped...
...But multiplying that harm-rate by the population of the world, as Pauling did, allowed him to claim that continued nuclear testing would kill "millions of children...
...This supposedly contributes to global warming, but it also helps the trees grow...
...Around the time he heard that the Proceedings of the National Academy would publish the article, Art said: "If we just had a few thousand scientists pursuing their own goals, we'd real-ly be able to get some new research done in this country...
...Today astonishing machines-a fifth of a mile long and weighing several hundred tons-shred cars and sep-arate them into reusable pieces and are able to process an automobile every minute...
...As to those who signed his peti-tion, Art says, "We got quite a few famous names, but many of them are near retirement...
...The project itself had better be popular...
...It was previously economical to make wood chips of undergrowth, which were used for paper...
...He had seen in print claims of a "con-sensus" among scientists about the cause of global warming...
...There's less cancer risk in Denver, where the background radi-ation levels are much higher...
...Sweets aren't allowed either-"sugar diminishes mental func-tion and increases irritability...
...Trapped by government money...
...Each of us must understand these things for himself and build his own relationship with God...
...They are no longer seeking grants...
...The paper recycling craze has also helped convince the public that industries were not socially responsible until the enviros forced them to be...
...A graduate student in the same lab, Torgeir Flatmark (today a professor of biochemistry in Norway), proved, contrary to what was believed at the time, that two of the 20 amino acids that are strung together in various sequences to form all known proteins, are in fact unstable...
...He was a chem-istry student at Caltech himself, and something of a whiz kid...
...And they were able to do so only because a large number of his subscribers and home-schooling friends "were available to help...
...Miners used hydraulic methods that would terrify today's environmentalists- the top soil was blasted away with fire-hoses...
...Now Art had to find a way to keep going on his own...
...lambs, 15 cows, 7 horses, 4 dogs, and 50 wild turkeys...
...The curriculum was transferred to 22 compact discs, which are sold in a box for $195...
...The false identity had been supplied deliberately, in an attempt to delegitimize the entire list...
...40 February 2001 . The American Spectator Robinson recalled the "total immersion" that he and Noah experienced during the last months of their work...
...Bethany, 18, is still at home, and her older sister Arynne, 20, has finished two years of college...
...It had all taken less than 24 hours...
...For most of my life," Robinson says, "I had found education to be a boring subject...
...At private research institutions, where half the money may come from private endowments, the research is nonetheless still held hostage...
...And the difference between truth and falsehood in matters of science is not something that concerns them at all...
...He proved to be such a favorite with the instructors that they sought Art's permission to teach him, too...
...He narrowly escaped two thugs, one with a knife, by dodging around corners, arriving at the apart-ment just ahead of his pursuers...
...He put out a newsletter called Fighting Chance, and published a paperback of that name with Gary North (half a mil-lion copies were distributed...
...Art informed the university administration that they faced law-suits, adverse publicity, and "an ever increasing telephone, fax, and letter campaign...
...environmentalists since the 1970's...
...Among them, the family members have developed a home school curriculum consisting of over 250 books-among them the 30,000-page 1911 edition of the Ency-clopedia Britannica- - which the youngsters took turns scanning into computers...
...You're only going to get the money for something that everyone has heard of and thinks is the coming thing," he said...
...Since then, however, ii has been shown to be wrong...
...Concerned about the decline of public education, she had already begun to accumulate filing cabinets full of her own instructional material and was home-schooling all the children...
...Moreover, the "mini mills," with which the steel indus-try has been partially resuscitated -from a near death brought on by technological change, foreign competi-tion, and debilitating taxation and regulation-have ben-efited from these automobile homogenizers...
...I think the work we are doing is important...
...The results are "elegant," he says, in a moment of unguard-ed enthusiasm...
...They are too disadvantageous...
...A sharp divergence of political opinion between the two men also became apparent...
...She died before reaching the hospital...
...In private, he disparages the enviros as "warmed over college radicals who have found a way to make radicalism pay," by attaching themselves to the richly funded environmentalist industry...
...The clock-rate varies, he proposed, depending on the identities of the amino acids on either side of the two unstable ones in the pro-tein chain...
...The muggers could feel confident that any law-abiding target would be unarmed...
...Professors in these universities who are candid with you will say, 'Well, we can't really do what we want here because half of our money comes from the government so we can't afford to put it at risk.'" A better system, Art thinks, would be to give one-time grants to a couple of thousand scien-tists a year, with no further oversight or reports...
...Even if she had been in the hospital, it is not likely that she could have been saved...
...ly designed to destroy her faith, her innocence, her self-respect, and her happiness in her way of life," Art says...
...Independent evi-dence for an aging clock is provided by progeric children with the rare Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome...
...The argument involved a "linear extrapolation to zero," in Robinson's scientific hngo...
...Pauling responded to the unwelcome news by entering Robinson's office one day and announcing that he had in his breast pocket some damaging personal infor-mation...
...Until recently, Noah continued to print the newsletter on the same press, which was hauled from Boulder to Ore-gon...
...That may mean that we will do something remarkable that we wouldn't have done...
...Its background radiation levels are below the national average, and its cancer rates are above average...
...A few years after he won the Nobel Peace Prize, Pauling also won the Lenin Peace Prize...
...His approach to religious instruction paral-lels the teach-yourself philosophy he applies to education generally...
...In addition, unscrupulous people are trying to manufacture the evidence for oil industry connections...
...Matthew's older brother Joshua, 18, has pinned to the wall of his room the skin of a cougar that he trapped...
...What can a stu-dent do if the science, engineering and mathematics courses are held hostage by the 'humanities' departments...
...They "don't have much for brains," he considers...
...It is self-satisfying to take action strong enough to elicit praise...
...For his part, in the spring of 1978 Robinson had given a speech at the Gato Institute, then in San Francisco, deploring the government funding of science as harmful to the independence that is essential to scientific inquiry...
...or something that you want to function only briefly, like a hormone, and then to disappear...
...He told Robinson that he was more proud of the Soviet than the Norwegian award...
...Two years ago, agreeing with the title of his close friend Jeff Cooper's book, To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth, firearms training was added to their home school...
...He is buried in an Alpine glacier near the top of Mont Blanc...
...One day in November all the children had stomach flu...
...Now, however, the enviros will be able to sup-port their side of this issue with data-base information showing my 'oil industry' connections-fabricated with fraudulent mail-ings...
...We didn't do as much as we perhaps could have done, if we had stayed in academia," he said, "but I am very happy with what we are doing...
...The peti-tion called for a rejection of the Kyoto treaty, signed by the U.S...
...Auto recycling could not, of course, become an enviro cause...
...He permits no television, which "promotes pas-sive, vicarious brain development rather than active thought...
...Pauling and his wife Ava Helen organized a petition against testing in the atmosphere, signed by 11,000 scientists and presented to the United Nations...
...Noah's older brother, Zachary, 24, is at Iowa State University studying to be a doctor of veterinary medicine, and also working for a chemistry Ph.D...
...The seminal discoveries in science are few and far between...
...Access to Energy, August 2000 The American Spectator . February 2001 39 Robinson's response to the Union of Concerned Scientists might have been taken from the playbook of Vince Lombardi...
...We can't wake mommy up...
...Recently they heard that the paper was accepted...
...Obeying the law, Noah had "left his .45 at home...
...Whether the institution is nominally private, or publicly funded, he points out, most scientific research is held captive by heavy infusions of federal money...
...But with the end of the Cold War this doomed cause was lost totally...
...After he wrote about it for Access to Energy, an editor at the Wall Street journal called and asked for an op-ed piece...
...The first two did not worry them, Art says-they had the lawyers and the media...
...Last summer they made all 800 sequences, doing some of the work at Bruce Merrifield's lab at Rockefeller University in New York...
...Another is to educate the public about hormesis, which will be needed to get nuclear power back on track...
...As any one of the 20 amino acids could be on one side, and any one of 20 could be on the other side, there were 800 possibilities in all...
...San Diego with Martin Kamen, the dis-coverer of Carbon-14 and later the winner of the Enrico Fermi Award...
...He added this jolting postscript: "He is buried in an alpine glacier near the top of Mont Blanc on the border between France and Italy, which contains the remains of the Air India Boeing 707 that crashed there on January 24, 1966...
...Pauling calculated the damage at minuscule levels by extending that graph back in a straight line to zero...
...Since then, with many intervening adventures, Art Robin-son has mostly been home alone with the kids...
...It's world class work...
...Art and his wife Laurelee, and Zachary and Noah, moved to Oregon in 1980...
...That inverse relationship holds all over the country...
...After many twists and turns, and a lengthy account in Barron's by the perennial Wall Street bear, James Grant, now the publisher of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, the case was set-tied out of court with Pauling paying Robinson $575,000...
...Art is a scientist, but he is also a warrior...
...In addition, he said, ''75 percent of all cancer can be prevented or cured by Vitamin C alone...
...Art and Zachary Robinson had it on his desk the next day...
...To graduate, she was told, she had to take a course called "col-loquium," an exercise "specificalCREATIVE DESTRUCTION R ecycled paper is of poorer quality and higher cost than unrecycled paper...
...He was one of the few students ever to be appointed to the faculty of the University of California (in San Diego) immediately after getting his Ph.D...
...The same principle is observed with alcohol, and a number of other poisons...
...But the economics of farming locally are not good, Art Robinson says...
...All of it is being returned unopened...
...in chemistry...
...Despite the many difficulties, he has not only kept alive his youthful dream of doing great things in science, but he may be in the midst of doing it...
...There are six Robinson children, all of them home-schooled...
...It's a good thing they didn't meet the Robinson boys down on the farm...
...rt Robinson will be 59 in March...
...Twenty years ago, Art built a 30 kilowatt hydro-electric generator next to the creek near his house, but the Department of Fish and Game has yet to give its approval...
...It's not understood at all," he says...
...Art calls this genocide, as it now causes the deaths, from malar-ia, of about three million children a year...
...One is to tackle the DDT ban, driven by U.S...
...Some of the work was also done in New York, at the Rockefeller University lab of R. Bruce Mer-rifield, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984...
...Art's warrior instincts also came to the fore after his daughter Arynne enrolled at Southern Oregon Uni-versity...
...There are four keys to learning, he believes -"study environment, study habits, course of study, and high-quality books"-but he may not real-ize the extent to which his own discipline, determination and watchfulness have made the first two a given in his own household...
...Laurelee was 4336 February 2oo1 . The American Spectator The experimental results were "highly embar-rassing...
...Suffice it to say that Art Robinson has recovered his finan-cial independence...
...Another was the lesson that Robinson had learned from Pauling...
...After that, they started sleeping in a con-ference room near the lab...
...Fruit flies live for a few weeks, mice for about two years, man for 80 or 90 years...
...Art and Noah worked in 12-hour shifts, sleeping in a friend's apartment nearby and rotating at 3 a.m...
...More recently, with typical single-mindedness, Robinson tracked down all 99 his-torical novels by the Edwardian writer G. A. Henry, and they in turn were optically scanned...
...A possible explanation for their presence was that the "insta-bility" within the protein could be functioning as a timer for bodily functions...
...He has more battle-plans up his sleeve...
...In this, the family has revert-ed to earlier times in America when children were taught self-reliance, good judgment and practical skills- including the use of firearms-at an early age...
...The subject was "nuclear fallout," or the residual radia-tion after an atomic explosion...
...One must become so totally immersed in one's work that eat-ing is an imposition and sleeping an inconvenience...
...Industry has been doing it for more than 70 years- and it benefits two politically incorrect technologies, steel and automobiles...
...This could shed light on one of the greatest unsolved problems of biochemistry-aging...
...It would have involved many thousands of inquiries, and they would be needing extra telephone lines and secretaries...
...He is not pleased by many developments in America in the last generation, especially at the intersection of science and pol-itics, and his own life has been beset by obstacles and tragedies...
...A defector from Communist Czechoslovakia, he valued the First Amendment highly - and exercised it through a printing press in the base-ment...
...For them, the clock is running much too fast and the interval between childhood and old age shrinks to just over a decade...
...As the recent energy problems on the West Coast suggest, we are going to have to start building nuclear power plants again...
...There seemed to be nothing special about them...
...Automobile scrap has been recy-cled for almost as long as there has been an automobile industry...
...nuclear weapon has been tested for a decade, and their reliability is becoming uncertain...
...Filling out grant requests, pol-iticking to be well-liked, serving on grant review boards, going to the meetings to be seen by others, will take half your time...
...One night Noah was nearly mugged...
...As to other distractions, they are just not tolerated...
...Many of them were not scientists at all, and only 382 were Americans...
...The family gets together for Bible-readings every night and the children say grace before meals (in nearly inaudible whispers...
...It is believed to have been the work of assassins that killed the Indian physicist Bhaba, who was then head of the nuclear energy program and was also on the plane...
...The graph does not go straight back to zero...
...It may be something that is wanted for a long time, like the lens of the eye...
...Robinson theorized that the rate at which this turnover occurred was the bodily equivalent of a clock...
...New York's draconian gun laws make the streets unsafe...
...and next to the main house is a log-cabin structure where all the Robinson children have been home-schooled...
...It is something you gladly reach for in the mailbox...
...In fact, his independence as a scientist is now greater than it would be if he were still at a large research institution...
...On the piano Matthew is still on grade 1B, but his math is going well...
...When Robin-son refused, Pauling locked him out and kept the filing cabiThe American Spectator o February 2001 35 nets and computer tapes containing nine years' worth of research...
...An enemy is not beaten, however, unless he is, in fact, beaten...
...Mass spectrometers were used at Oak Ridge to help develop the atomic bomb, but this version is many times more powerful...
...Over four years, 20,000 sets have been sold...
...There are few institutions where scientists are able to work, for many months at a time, essentially without inter-ruption...
...I enjoyed teaching chemistry because I enjoyed chemistry-not education...
...We are frequently confronted with our alleged oil industry associations," Robinson wrote in Access to Energy...
...It is best to win, even if this requires actions outside one's field of specialization...
...When Laurelee died I continued our home school, but I let the children teach themselves...
...By the summer of 1978, he was getting "highly embarrassing" results...
...Other amino acids could have been substituted for them...
...These are not college pranks...
...Pauling's later sworn tes-timony showed that the story about the damaging information was invented, while experiments by the Mayo Clinic conclusively proved that the theory about cancer and Vitamin C was wrong...
...Now we have the "hormesis" data, gathered in the last 20 years, and that's what interests Robinson...
...He began to explore this theory with his students in San Diego in the early 1970's...
...He would overlook it, however, if Robinson were to resign all his positions and turn over his research...
...The fish may be affected, they say...
...Advance place-ment had allowed the boys to skip this insult...
...We have been free...
...Many paper mills found it too costly to maintain two production facilities, so to meet government speci-fications they switched entirely to recycled paper-and raised their prices...
...San Diego, Robin-son teamed up with Linus Pauling to form the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in Menlo Park, California...
...Art calls "highly politicized,'' and Scientific American (whose deterioration has been sad to behold...
...That is rarely accom-panied by interpretive comment...
...Otherwise those two amino acids wouldn't be used...
...Weapons test-ing must also be resumed...
...Piled 12 feet high in another building, the mailing room, are the books and home-schooling curricula that the Robinsons have published in recent years and now ship to the public...
...but not yet ratified, and it added that "there is no con-vincing scientific evidence" that the human release of green-house gases has significantly warmed the Earth's atmosphere...
...And that, in the end, is why his story is inspiring...
...But the third did...
...It seems to keep the DNA repair mechanisms in good working order...
...He no longer needs government grants to pursue the unresolved scientific questions that were put on hold over 20 years ago...
...Laurelee felt ill too, with a bad stomach ache...
...Before he left for graduate studies, Art and Noah submitted a paper to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
...Bad for you in large doses, radiation does some good in small doses...
...The "greens" have not sat back...
...In New York, however, they did experience one big distrac-tion...
...It doesn't mean that that freedom will be used to save the world...
...No one in our family ever questions the truth of the Lord's Word as provided to us in the Old and New Testaments of the King James Bible," he wrote in Practical Home Schooling...
...The letter was always a lively read, and Robinson has pre-served that quality...
...They may net $10,000 a year from farming, and if they did nothing else and made no mistakes, maybe they could double that figure...
...In 34 February 2001 o The American Spectator TIST FIND a smaller building is the printing press where Robinson's newsletter, Access to Energy, is printed...
...It is better to take some noticeable action to interfere with them...
...He knew this wasn't true, although something resembling a con-sensus had been confected by such journals as Science, which 38 February 2001 . The American Spectator Ted Robinson was 'In love with chemical plants...
...He will be only 14 by the time he has finished calculus...
...hen he found himself locked out of his own office, Robinson sued Pauling for breach of contract, slan-der, and fraud...
...Their training was conducted under Cooper himself at the NRA Competition Center at Raton, New Mexico, and under Clint Smith, Cooper's associate in Texas...
...As soon as it was published on the Website, Ozone Action announced at a congressional hearing that the petition was fraudulent: "Halliwell" was the real name of a rock group member...
...In 1958, Pauling had engaged in a series of tele-vised debates with the developer of the hydrogen bomb, Edward Teller...
...He allowed that it was "unusual to be doing it on an Ore-gon farm with your kids...
...The sutures would never have held," a doctor told Art...
...It's a miracle in a box," Art says...
...Why were they not recycling before...
...He obtained over 17,000 signatures- this in contrast to the "2,000 scientists" who were said to accept man-made climate change as a reality...
...So it's evi-dent that there are timers in them...
...At low levels, by his calculations, not many would be harmed...
...The next morning Arynne and Bethany, aged 8 and 6, came running into his room...
...We only seek to understand these truths by repeated reading...
...That is, when mixed with water, they turn into two different amino acids...
...The cause of this crash is not known for certain...
...Pauling responded by telling Robinson that he had in his pocket some damaging personal information...
...n the late 1960 's, Robinson was working as a young pro-fessor at U.C...
...Out there in the woods are cougars and black bears, and earlier this year Joshua shot a cougar that appeared in a tree just above him...
...Art says of his own parents: '' They were, I think, Methodist...
...But most of us are being forced to use it, since the Clinton Administration declared that all government agencies must use it exclu-sively...
...So my reasoning went this way," Robinson said...
...They retail for $99...
...Zero radiation, obviously, causes no harm...
...Some of the labs are unused, others contain equipment-vials, bottles, a cryogenic freezer-that was mostly bought at auction...
...Most die of a heart attack or stroke, wizened in their late teens...
...But his children help out as lab assistants, and recently Noah became a full-fledged co-worker...
...A short distance from the farm house there stand several buildings of steel construction...
...Then the enviros made an error," Art recalled...
...But no one knows...
...Pauling died in 1994, at the age of 93, but his peace-prize activ-ities continue to resonate among scientists, and the subject still absorbs Robinson...
...The answer is that industrial recycling has always been important-in those commodities for which it was economically sensible...
...Very heavy drinking will kill you, but a glass of wine a day is a tonic...
...They have now timed the turnover rates of about half of these, having measured 9,000 sam-ples...
...Yet in recent years he has been able to resume that work...
...It goes down to about 700 millirems a day, then heads back up again, like a hook...
...They were never recovered...
...For that he won the Nobel Prize, and the Lenin Prize a few years later...
...But all of these things are ultimately detours and distractions...
...Bad science had managed to demonize nuclear power and the testing of nuclear weapons...
...It was a rare disease called acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis...
...The price of wool is one-third the shearing cost...
...There are 200 such machines in the United States, which convert 13 million automobiles per year into reusable metallic "corn flakes...
...There will be at least two more years' work on molecular timers...
...Art draws the obvious conclu-sion...
...One was the rising power of "green" fanatics, whose bad science, or indifference to it, was no impediment to their influence...
...One person who submit-ted her signature by fax, claiming to be a Ph...
...The Robinsons have hundreds of sheep and TOM BETHELL is The American Spectator's senior editor...
...His formula- "let the children teach themselves" -sounds as though it came from the progressive play-book...
...Home-schooling his own children, sheltering them from corrupted universities, and fighting environmentalists are so time-consuming that they would have derailed the scientific aspirations of almost anyone...
...Anyone who opposes them can expect to be attacked in all sorts of underhanded ways...
...For this reason, many decent people avoid this controversy...
...Enzymes released by the pancreas, instead of going down the proper duct to the digestive system, had latched onto an artery, and eaten a hole in it...
...Over the years, Art Robinson co-authored scientific papers with many famous men, including his teacher of 40 years ago, Linus Pauling...
...Pauling won, Robinson says, with the help of an argument that was unsupported by evidence at the time...
...Flatmark didn't pur-sue it, and Robinson had time to ponder this odd discovery...
...Robinson, president and research direc-tor, revered Pauling both as a teacher and a chemist, while Pauling had referred to him as "my principal and most valued collaborator.'' Paul-ing had won two Nobel Prizes, for Chemistry (1954), and Peace (1962), and by the mid 1970's had widely publicized the claim that Vitamin C could cure the common cold...
...Matthew was con-sidered to be too young, but he went along on the trips...
...Art, an only child, was in graduate school in San Diego at the time...
...He even built demonstration shelters for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which installed them at FEMA centers in Arizona, Idaho, Pennsylvania and Utah...
...He lives on a 350-acre farm in southern Oregon, with his brothers and sisters, and his father, the scientist Art Robin-son...
...Additional information can be found at www.oism.org, and at www.robinsoncurriculum.com...
...More recently, he and Noah developed faster and better methods...
...We only ate, slept, and worked - calling upon our associates only when we needed additional hands and otherwise ignoring entirely the world outside...
...They pro-vide valuable feedstocks for the mills...
...Three thousand Henry sets (6 CD's) were shipped in the first year...
...So the house is heated by burning wood, which of course releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere...
...The area around Cave Junction, not far from the California border, was developed in the gold-rush days...
...Art is a Christian of no specific denomination and irregular church attendance...
...We reply that we have none...
...No U.S...
...He is working for his Ph.D...
...He ran in...
...Art took over Access to Energy in 1993, at the request of its ail-ing proprietor Petr Beckmann, a professor of electrical engiPetr Beckmann saw in Art a kindred spirit-even though Petr was an atheist and Art is a believer...
...Remarkably, Art has managed to convert the education of his chil-dren from a financial drain into a thriving business...
...He studied the Union of Concerned Scientists' manual on handling the media...
...A year later, Art's mother found that she could not live without her husband and she committed suicide...
...For a while, Art Robinson tried to revive interest in civil defense...
...Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, a reliable shill for the environmental industry, wrote a sarcastic op-ed for the Boston Globe denouncing the petition on the basis of the one false name...
...High levels of radiation wlI1 certainy kill you, and lower levels will harm you...
...This involved raising money, writing a summary paper, obtaining mailing lists, printing the mailing...
...It did-n't make sense to me that two of the 20 fundamental building blocks of proteins would be unstable in the body," he said...
...On one issue-global warming-Art has made a real dif-ference...
...But he is a man of steely determination and intensity, and he has achieved a good deal since moving to Oregon 20 years ago...
...So why not remove her from the school...
...Art's father, Ted Robinson, lived in Houston and designed and constructed petrochemical plants for Union Carbide in various parts of the world...
...Art decided to circulate a petition among the "silent major-ity" of scientists...
...The instability itself must be the function...
...Cap guns, war toys and violent video games were never permitted in the Robinson household...
...As it happened, the science fac-ulty was excellent, the university's proximity was convenient, and his tax dollars were paying for this travesty...
...As to aging, "it's reasonable to predict that there is a clock that determines lifespan," Art said...
...Robin-son has begun to receive crates of mail subscriptions, and merchandise, addressed to Arthur B. Robinson of the Oregon Petroleum Institute in Cave Junction...
...Today it's farming and tree-growing territory...
...As for the guns, they are not entirely for show...
...In the mid 1970's, after a few years at U.C...
...Robinson shared Beckmann's concerns about a number of issues...
Vol. 34 • February 2001 • No. 1
