The Scientist Whose Darkest Experiment Was on the Children He Took Home

Rachel Aviv follows the boys a Nobel-winning scientist brought from the South Pacific to live with him in the US, and the lives they led afterward.

Previously untold stories behind a celebrated scientist's disturbing private life.

D. Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his research on kuru, a fatal brain disease in Papua New Guinea. Over three decades, he brought dozens of boys from the South Pacific to live with him in the United States—an

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