Arthur B. Robinson

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Arthur B. Robinson is founder, president and professor of chemistry at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, where he conducts research on protein chemistry and on nutrition and predictive and preventive medicine. He also sells the Robinson Curriculum, which is a self-taught home school curriculum for grammar school children through high school.[1][2]

"Teach your children...to acquire superior knowledge as did many...in the days before socialism in education."

He is an avowed Christian.

He is currently the editor and publisher of the newsletter Access to Energy[3], which was originated by Petr Beckmann.

With his son, Noah E. Robinson, Ph.D., Arthur Robinson authored the Molecular Clocks: Deamidation of Asparaginyl and Glutaminyl Residues in Peptides and Proteins [4] which includes an exhaustive review of the scientific literature on deamidation; His work is still discussed in later publications on this subject, for example [5] Robinson and coworkers formulated the amide molecular clock hypothesis in 1970. [6]

An American Spectator article concerning Dr. Robinson's unique history.[7] includes discussion of his association with Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling (Chemistry, 1954 and Peace, 1962), who referred to Robinson as "my principal and most valued collaborator." However, Robinson's research revealed "highly embarrassing" results proving conclusively that Pauling's data on vitamin C was false. According to the article:

A sharp divergence of political opinion between the two men also became apparent. A few years after he won the Nobel Peace Prize, Pauling also won the Lenin Peace Prize. He told Robinson that he was more proud of the Soviet than the Norwegian award. For his part, in the spring of 1978 Robinson had given a speech at the Cato Institute, then in San Francisco, deploring the government funding of science as harmful to the independence that is essential to scientific inquiry [7]

Robinson is the senior author of the Oregon Petition, a petition of over 31,000 self-described scientists or engineers (in 2008), intended to show that a "scientific consensus" does not exist on the subject of global warming.[8] Robinson is a signatory to A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism, a petition produced by the Discovery Institute that expresses skepticism about the ability of natural selection to account for the complexity of life, and encouraging careful examination of the evidence for "Darwinian theory".

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  1. ^ "The Robinson Self-Teaching curriculum
  2. ^ Robinson Curriculum - Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
  3. ^ www.accesstoenergy.com
  4. ^ Robinson NE, Robinson AB (2004) Molecular clocks: Deamidation of asparaginyl and glutaminyl residues in peptides and proteins Cave Junction (Oregon): Althouse Press. 419 p.
  5. ^ "DNA Damage–Induced Bcl-xL Deamidation Is Mediated by NHE-1 Antiport Regulated Intracellular pH" by Zhao R, Oxley D, Smith TS, Follows GA, Green AR, et al. PLoS Biology Vol. 5, No. 1, e1 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050001
  6. ^ "Controlled deamidation of peptides and proteins: an experimental hazard and a possible biological timer." by Robinson AB, McKerrow JH, Cary P. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1970 Jul;66(3):753-7. PMID: 5269237 available at PubMed Central
  7. ^ a b "A Scientist Finds Independence Art Robinson fights aging with his home-schooled lab rats." by Tom Bethell The American Spectator Feb. 2001, available at: The Independent Scientist
  8. ^ Oregon Petition

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