Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
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The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization which describes itself as "a small research institute" that studies "biochemistry, diagnostic medicine, nutrition, preventive medicine and the molecular biology of aging." It has 6 faculty members,[1] and is headed by Arthur B. Robinson, a scientist who has a long history of controversial entanglements with figures on the fringe of accepted research.[citation needed] OISM also markets a home-schooling kit for "parents concerned about socialism in the public schools" and publishes books on how to survive nuclear war.[citation needed]
OISM was established by Robinson in 1980, after he fell out with his mentor Linus Pauling.
The OISM is located on a building about 7 miles from the city of Cave Junction, Oregon.
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.
