'How could such a brilliant man be so deluded?' - Independent

The youngest person ever to graduate from Harvard Medical School, D. Carleton Gajdusek was a brilliant mind who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on degenerative neurological disorders. Studying diseases in New Guinea, Gajdusek was praised for adopting 57 local children and raising them in the US.

But after FBI surveillance revealed Gajdusek to be a paedophile, far from denying the charges, he became known for his contention that sexual relations with children are entirely natural. Featuring interviews with his victims, his supporters in the scientific community and with the man himself, The Genius and the Boys explores the extremes of human intelligence and ideals.

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