The lie of freedom versus the truth of family

Many of the best scientists of the twentieth century were so because they tended to think outside normal patterns, to see from odd angles. Some, like Richard Feynman (safecracker, bongo drum player & painter of nudes) had eccentricities that were considered merely colorful and amusing. Some, like Noam Chomsky (eloquent political gadfly) were marginalized to minimize their threat to the status quo. And then there were ones like Alan Turing, a man whose work probably saved more lives in World War II than any other individual's, whose sexual proclivities so threatened society it hounded him into committing suicide. Dr Daniel Carleton Gajdusek [won the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine] fell into that last category for his love of boys and his defense of that love. [...]

He [Gajdusek] remained unrepentant to the end about his sexual relationships with his adopted sons, Dr. Klitzman said. He considered American law prudish and pointed out that sex with young men was normal in the cultures he studied and in the classic Greek societies at the foundation of Western civilization.

source: Article 'The Lie Of Freedom Versus the Truth Of Family'; www.nambla.org/gajdusek.htm; Nambla.org; March 2009