Background
Root-Bernstein, Robert Scott was born on August 7, 1953 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Morton Ira and Maurine (Berkstresser) Bernstein.
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Creativity isn't born, it's cultivated—this innovative guide distills the work of extraordinary artists and thinkers to show you how. All the imagination needs to be fruitful is exercise. Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein identify the thinking tools employed by history's greatest creative minds—from Albert Einstein and Jane Goodall to Amadeus Mozart and Virginia Woolf—so that anyone with the right mix of inspiration and drive can set their own genius in motion. With engaging narratives and ample illustrations, Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein investigate cognitive tools as diverse as observing, imaging, recognizing patterns, modeling, playing, and more to provide "a clever, detailed and demanding fitness program for the creative mind" (Kirkus Reviews).
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When basketball hero Magic Johnson recently announced that he had tested positive for HIV, the public naturally assumed it was only a matter of time before he developed full-blown AIDS. But is the link between HIV and AIDS really established? Most physicians now believe that HIV is tantamount to a death sentence. They also believe that AIDS is a fundamentally new disease whose cause remained unknown until the discovery of HIV. That discovery was hailed as a great advance in the fight against this devastating plague, and it has been cited to justify the continuing huge expenditure of billions of dollars a year in public funds on AIDS research. But do we know that AIDS is new? Do we really know its cause? Robert Root-Bernstein, a researcher in biochemistry and autoimmune diseases, argues that AIDS is not new, and strongly criticizes the AIDS research extablishment for ignoring historical data to the contrary in their haste to declare the AIDS puzzle solved. In fact, he argues, AIDS has been around a lot longer than anyone realizes; its fundamental cause is depression of the immune system; that this can occur for many different reasons; and that the relation between HIV and AIDS may be more correlational than causal. In short, we still don't know what causes AIDS. Lifestyle theories of causation are just as plausible, given the current state of knowledge, as the HIV hypothesis. Root-Bernstein provides a thorough and authoritative, yet accessible view of the existing AIDS research, drawing on medical records to show that hundreds of cases of AIDS may have occurred in the course of the past hundred years, and presenting several plausible alternatives to the HIV hypothesis.
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Root-Bernstein, Robert Scott was born on August 7, 1953 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Morton Ira and Maurine (Berkstresser) Bernstein.
AB, Princeton University, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1980.
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 Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: The Tragic Cost of Premature Consensus. In Rethinking Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Root-Bernstein postulated that factors in addition to Human Immunodeficiency Virus may contribute to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Root-Bernstein asserts that Human Immunodeficiency Virus, while involved in the development of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 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 Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a pussycat and the people who claim Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is all Human Immunodeficiency Virus are wrong.
. 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.".
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Root-Bernstein is a former member of the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Hypothesis, a group of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome denialists.
Married Michèle Marie Root-Bernstein, September 2, 1978. Children: Meredith Marie, Brian Robert.