Stanley Prusiner: 'A Nobel prize doesn't wipe the scepticism away'

The neurologist whose discovery of the agent that causes CJD reveals why his finding was greeted with disbelief A scientific truth triumphs not by convincing its opponents but because its opponents eventually die, said influential physicist Max Planck. For Nobel prize-winning neurologist Stanley Prusiner, the quotation is "so mean" that he doesn't like to use it. "But it is absolutely true," he says. Prusiner won the Nobel prize in 1997 for his discovery of prions infectious proteins that cause ...