Even the greatest minds in medicine have been terribly, terribly wrong.
The inventor of the lobotomy won a Nobel prize in medicine for destroying his patients' brains.
Another Nobel laureate thought malaria cured syphilis.
The discoverer of anaphylactic shock also researched the spirit world and ESP.
A pioneer of organ transplants was an ardent eugenicist, while the founder of sports physiology heroically spoke out against Nazism.
Boneheads and Brainiacs profiles .
Quill Driver Books Boneheads and brainiacs: heroes and scoundrels of the nobel prize in medicine, paperback/moira dolan
