Meet Ronald Evans, Ph.D., a researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Evans is something of a mega-scientist. He has nearly 120,000 citations and a researcher rating (an h-index) of over 160. That number may not mean anything to you, but suffice it to say, Ron Evans is to physiology what Babe Ruth was to baseball—a legend. Evans' research has been very well-funded and published in Hall of Fame worthy peer-review journals, including the Big 3 journals in physiology: Science, Nature, and Cell. Evans also won the Wolfe Prize in Medicine in 2012—which commonly predicts Nobel Prize Winners—and he's one of only about 2,000 researchers worldwide admitted into the National Academy of Sciences.
With credentials like this, I can see why a lot of folks think that they've caught a cold when Dr. Evans sneezes. And yet, he's also been behind a couple of studies that have been contentious, to say the least.
Not once, but twice, Evans claimed to have found what many in...
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