- Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
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Not to be confused with Oregon Health and Sciences University or OMSI.
The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located about seven miles from Cave Junction, Oregon. It is a private research institute that studies biochemistry, diagnostic medicine, nutrition, preventive medicine and the molecular biology of aging, and receives no government funding.[1]
The institute is headed by Arthur B. Robinson, who received a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from California Institute of Technology and spent a year as a professor at UCSD. Robinson established OISM in 1980 after a disagreement with his mentor Linus Pauling.[2] Other listed faculty are biochemist Martin D. Kamen (died in 2002), Nobel prize-winning chemist R. Bruce Merrifield (died in 2006), Salk Institute biochemist Fred Westall, electrical engineer Carl Boehme, physician Jane Orient, chemist Noah E. Robinson, and veterinarian Zachary W. Robinson.[1]
The OISM circulated the Oregon Petition, a "Scientists' Petition" on global warming, in collaboration with the late Frederick Seitz, former president of the National Academy of Sciences. OISM founder Arthur Robinson is skeptical that humans cause global warming.
The OISM website states that "several members of the Institute's staff are also well known for their work on the Petition Project, an undertaking that has obtained the signatures of more than 31,000 American scientists opposed, on scientific grounds, to the hypothesis of "human-caused global warming" and to concomitant proposals for world-wide energy taxation and rationing."[3]
OISM markets a homeschooling kit for parents who are concerned about how "American schools have degraded severely."[4] Another OISM project is Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. The Institute publishes the book "Nuclear War Survival Skills," by Cresson Kearny, describing how to survive nuclear war,[5] and in 1986 published Fighting Chance by Gary North and Arthur Robinson, advocating a revival of the federal government civil defense program.
References
- ^ a b Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine website. Accessed March 27, 2007.
- ^ Tom Bethell, A Scientist Finds Independence; Art Robinson fights aging with his home-schooled lab rats. The American Spectator, February 2001. (Archived version.)
- ^ OISM website
- ^ The Robinson Self-Teaching Curriculum: College Preparation
- ^ Nuclear War Survival Skills
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