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GUERRILLA SCIENCE IS the refreshing trend that finds novice young researchers making lab discoveries that embarrass their elders and the Establishment. In May, it was New York med student Steven Nurkin, whose study found that physicians’ neckties were swarming with dangerous germs. In July, the grad students of UNC marine biologist Peter Marko made the journal Nature by using DNA samples to show that 75% of fish sold as “red snapper” really aren’t. Of course, the ultimate outsider was Albert Einstein, who as a 26-year-old pencil-pusher in a Swiss patent office published three papers that reinvented the entire universe.
