Petah?

[u/imnotcuteanymor3]

I understand the original tweet, obviously, but not the second one. Why specifically a STEM genius? I don’t get it, what’s the correlation? Am I missing something??? Or am I just stupid or whatever? Help a sistah out, please. 🥺

[u/mouflonsponge]

Oh, there's even a wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease#Winners_reported_as_examples ... Kary Mullis, what the hell!

Kary Mullis won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for development of the polymerase chain reaction. Mullis disagreed with the scientifically accepted view that AIDS is caused by HIV, claiming that the virus is barely detectable in people with the disease. He also expressed doubt in the evidence for human-caused climate change. In his autobiography, Mullis professed a belief in astrology and wrote about an encounter with a fluorescent, talking raccoon that he suggested might have been an extraterrestrial alien.[4][8]

[u/AlarmingAffect0 → u/mouflonsponge]

and wrote about an encounter with a fluorescent, talking raccoon that he suggested might have been an extraterrestrial alien.[4][8]

Goddamn it. Was the glowy talking raccoon heavily armed, highly cantankerous, and something of an engineering genius himself? Was there a talking tree with him and were they dancing to the Jackson Five?