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A history of mad-cow disease by veteran science writer Richard Rhodes ( The Making of the Atomic Bomb ). Critics praise Rhodes' lucid explication of complex virology as well as his range--the book includes digressions on political and literary themes and a section on the scandal surrounding a Nobel Prize-winning expert on the disease who recently pleaded guilty to molesting a little boy.
It quoted Anthony Finkelstein, a professor of software at University College London, as warning more than a year ago: "The public was ignorant, the IT consultants were drawn by the lure of filthy lucre, the science policy experts were seized with a mad-cow effect in which their advice ceased to be rational, the nutcases were declaring the end of the world and a sensible, empirically founded approach to risk was lost."
Prusiner's boilerplate response to prion critics has been that if mad-cow disease or any of the other "prion diseases" is caused by a virus, then surely that virus would have been discovered by now.
The book is said to degenerate into a jeremiad when Rhodes anoints mad-cow disease "the new Black Death."
Prusiner's hypothesis is that fatal brain maladies such as mad-cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are caused not by viruses, bacteria, fungi, or some other mundane agent but by something startlingly new that he has discovered--mutant, rampaging proteins known as "prions," short for "proteinaceous infectious particles."