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Margie Profet: a Promising Scientist Vanishes Without a Trace

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 23rd, 2009

The most striking thing about biologist Margie Profet used to be her unconventional theories about evolution and pregnancy, conceived as she surfed the perilous waters of academe with neither tenure track nor PhD.

Now, more than 15 years after she made headlines as a young scientific "It Girl," the most striking thing about Profet is how her life suddenly stopped. One day she was at Harvard University and the next day she wasn't. The prodigal prodigy vanished into thin air, disappeared without a trace.

What happened to this anti-establishment thinker whose Sheryl Crow looks and beautiful mind made her a media darling' Weekly Scientist tackles that...

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