The Genius and the Boys
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)
Género: PelÃcula de TV, Documental
Emitir: Michael Alpers, Warwick Anderson, Sena Anua, Carleton Gajdusek, Robert Gajdusek, Robert Gallo, Oliver Sacks, Lovisa Mbagintao, Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Tripulación: Lars Heleander (Production Manager), Bosse Lindquist (Director), Jonas Kellagher (Producer), Bosse Lindquist (Writer), Bernhard Winkler (Editor)
Palabra clave:
The Genius and the Boys 2009
nobel prize
d. carleton gajdusek
prions
paedophile
ARTE GEIE
BBC Storyville
DR-Dokumentar
Eight Millimetres
SVT Dokumentär
Svenska Filminstitutet
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