Mae-Wan Ho

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho is a noted and controversial holistic scientist. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho's career spans more than 30 years in research and teaching in biochemistry, evolution, molecular genetics, and biophysics. She is the Co-Founder and Director of the UK-based Institute of Science in Society. She is former head of the Bio-Electrodynamics laboratory at the Open University in Milton Keynes after either having been fired for incompetence or resigning because of personal reasons. She is Editor of the radical science magazine, Science in Society. She also is a Scientific Advisor to the Third World Network.

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology in 1964, and her Ph. D. in Biochemistry in 1967 from Hong Kong University, and was Postdoctoral Fellow in Biochemical Genetics at the University of California in San Diego from 1968-1972. During that time, she won a competitive Fellowship at the US National Genetics Foundation, which took her to London University in the United Kingdom, where she became Senior Research Fellow at Queen Elizabeth College.

At the Open University, she was a Lecturer in Genetics from 1976-2000 and a Reader in Biology from 1985-2000. She currently remains Visiting Reader in Biology at the Open University, and is also a Visiting Professor of Biophysics at Catania University in Sicily.

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho has authored or co-authored a number of publications, including 10 books, such as The Rainbow and the Worm, the Physics of Organisms (1993, 1998), Genetic Engineering Dream or Nightmare? (1998, 1999), and Living with the Fluid Genome (2003).

Controversy

Dr. Ho has some controversial ideas. One idea she expouses is that living creatures do not obey the second law of thermodynamics. "But as there need be no entropy generated in adiabatic processes - which occur frequently in living systems..." [1].

Dr Ho is also a former vivesectionist as this article published by her clealy shows. Analysis Of Birefringence During Wound Healing And Remodeling Following Alkali Burns In Rabbit Cornea Huang YF, Meek KM, Ho MW, et al. EXP EYE RES 73 (4): 521-532 OCT 2001 doi:10.1006/exer.2001.1057, available online at http://www.idealibrary.com . In this study rabbits were treated as follows: "A sharply defined 12 mm diameter circular area alkali burn was made to the cornea by pipetting 0.5 ml of 0.5 N NaOH into a plastic well held firmly against the cornea for 35 sec"

Dr Ho has also been involved in the cloning of human genes - despite being a voracious c critic of genetic engineering. A cDNA Clone Coding For Human Sucrase-Isomaltase. Green FR, Edwards YH, Hauri HP, et al. Heredity 59: 154-154 1987

External links

• Big Picture TV Free video clips of Dr. Mae-Wan Ho