Robert Root-Bernstein, Date of Birth

Robert Root-Bernstein

American academic

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1953

Profession: writer, physiologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Robert Root-Bernstein (born August 7, 1953) (Ph.D., Princeton University) is a professor of physiology at Michigan State University.
In 1981, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as a "genius grant." He has also researched and consulted on creativity for more than fifteen years.
Among other books, he has authored Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People, Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge, and Rethinking AIDS: The Tragic Cost of Premature Consensus.
In Rethinking AIDS, Root-Bernstein postulated that factors in addition to HIV may contribute to AIDS.
Root-Bernstein is a former member of the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis, a group of AIDS denialists. Root-Bernstein asserts that HIV, while involved in the development of AIDS, may be no more important than an accumulation of co-factors such as a history of poor nutrition, lack of hygiene, intravenous drug use, anal intercourse, as well as various infections and lifestyle diseases.
In its April 2004 issue, POZ published a quote it attributed to Root-Bernstein: "Both the camp that says HIV is a pussycat and the people who claim AIDS is all HIV are wrong .
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The denialists make claims that are clearly inconsistent with existing studies.
When I check the existing studies, I don’t agree with the interpretation of the data, or, worse, I can’t find the studies [at all]."