Science & Medicine

The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located about seven miles from Cave Junction, Oregon. more...

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It describes itself as \"a small research institute\" that studies \"biochemistry, diagnostic medicine, nutrition, preventive medicine and the molecular biology of aging.\"

OISM lists six \"faculty members,\" but does not enroll students or teach courses.

The institute is headed by Arthur B. Robinson, who received the Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technogy. Robinson established OISM in 1980 after he fell out with his mentor Linus Pauling. 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, and physician Jane Orient.

The OISM is known mostly for the role it played in 1998 in circulating the Oregon Petition, a \"scientists' petition\" on global warming, in collaboration with Frederick Seitz, a retired former president of the National Academy of Sciences.

OISM markets a home-schooling kit for parents who are concerned about how \"American schools have degraded severely.\" Another OISM project is Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. The Institute publishes the book \"Nuclear War Survival Skills,\" describing how to survive nuclear war.

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