About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: David Horrobin, Mary Midgley, Mo Mowlam, Neil Astley, Jonathan Sacks, Frank Moulaert, Marlene Norst, Alan Beith, Paul Davies, Hermann Moisl, John Niemeyer Findlay, Geza Vermes, James Tooley, Martha Young-Scholten, Sugata Mitra, U. A. Fanthorpe, Jackie Kay, Jonathan Israel, George Neil Jenkins, Brian Randell, Fred D'Aguiar, Cliff Jones, William Scammell, Dorothy Heathcote, Tony Badger, David Whiffen, Simin Davoudi, Carl R. May, Patsy Healey, Stan Openshaw, Ben Pimlott, Ronald F. Tylecote, Ian Fells, Gillian Whitehead, Michael Goodfellow, Miodrag Stojkovi, Colin Jones, Thomas Stanley Westoll, G. W. S. Barrow, Jean Hillier, Maurice Tucker, Vicki Bruce, Bill Hopkins, Chris Stevenson, Norman Dennis, Frances Spalding, Robert A. Pearce, John House, Joseph Joshua Weiss, Mo O'Toole, Tom Shakespeare, Alick Walker, John Coulson, Karim Nayernia, John Fitzgerald, Christopher Rowland, Richard Middleton, Robin Plackett, Stuart Cameron, David E. H. Jones, Geoff Vigar, Patrick Salmon, Jack Mapanje, Mark Shucksmith. Excerpt: David Frederick Horrobin (6 October 1939 - 1 April 2003) was an entrepreneur, medical researcher, author and editor. He is best known as the founder of the biotechnology company Scotia Holdings and as a promoter of evening primrose oil as a medical treatment, Horrobin was founder and editor of the journals Medical Hypotheses and Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids. Horrobin believed that many diseases involve a lack of fatty acid precursors and might be alleviated by supplementing with the appropriate fatty acid. Horrobin's efforts focused on evening primrose oil, which contains gamma-linolenic acid. In the 1980s, Horrobin sold primrose oil in the United States without legally demonstrating its safety and efficacy, leading to government confiscations and felony indictments of his associates. H...
