SODOM & GOMORRAH: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this year to investigate some issues before the scientific community. One such issue that was raised was alchemy, a long debunked and dead branch of science that most people associate with quackery and magic tricks. Dr. Lawrence Principe of Johns Hopkins University, however, is attempting to revive alchemy. He believes that alchemists were genuine scientists who simply had flawed theories, and their reputation for trickery arose after people deliberately played tricks with alchemy in order to lend credibility to the new science of chemistry.
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