The Kuru Guru
Carleton Gajdusek won a Nobel Prize in 1976 for his groundbreaking research on the kuru virus in Papua New Guinea. He found the virus seemingly was spread by cannibalism as those who became infected had dined on the brains of their dead relatives.
But as the documentary film The Genius and The Boys confirms, Gajdusek wasn’t simply intrigued by the maladies of Stone Age peoples. He also was a hardened perodphile who adopted — and molested — scores of underage boys from Micronesia and other remote lands. Here’s more from Jamie Dlux.
