Education
Pearson graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a triple major in physics, biology, and psychology.
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Career
Pearson has patents in the area of oil shale and tar sands recovery, lasers, holography and supplement formulations. Pearson assisted with equipment design and experiments for National Aeronautics and Space Administration"s Space Shuttle. Pearson is also an International Society for Testing and Failure Analysis honoree.
Pearson and Shaw wrote, designed the stunts, and acted as technical advisors for a 1978 episode of The Wonderful World of Disney, called "Black Holes, Monsters That Eat Space and Time." They acted as scientific and technical advisors and received screen credits for the Clint Eastwood film Firefox.
They received screen credits for acting as technical advisors for Douglas Trumbull"s film Brainstorm, starring Natalie Wood. In 1988 Steve Sharon, Pearson and Shaw wrote the thriller The Dead Pool, which was later sold to Warner Brothers and made into a Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry film.
Pearson and Shaw make a cameo appearance in the funeral scene. Pearson and Shaw in a civil action challenged the constitutional validity of several United States. Food and Drug Administration ("Food and Drug Administration") regulations that require sellers of dietary supplements to obtain Food and Drug Administration authorization before labeling such supplements with "health claims".
In ruling against the Food and Drug Administration, the United States. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that the supplement health claims were constitutionally protected free speech.
Membership
While a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Science Fiction Society and one of the writers for the early underground comic God Comics.
