Carleton Gajdusek, above, visited tribes in New Guinea which had paedophile traditions.
Carleton was a Nobel prizewinning medical researcher from New York.
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, 1923-2008
This was the first of his 56 adopted sons.
He put them all through school, and many through university or medical school.
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
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Carleton.
In the 1990s the FBI were alerted that something was not quite right.
The FBI questioned Carleton's adopted sons.
It emerged that Carleton and one of his adopted sons had masturbated each other.
None of the other boys said Carleton had touched them.
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Carleton in New Guinea.
Several of the sons were willing to give evidence in his favour.
But, Carleton, in his 70s, was sent to jail.
He was unapologetic about his conviction.
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, 1923-2008
Carleton and his boys
In 1963 Carleton brought to the USA a 12-year-old boy he had adopted in New Guinea.This was the first of his 56 adopted sons.
He put them all through school, and many through university or medical school.
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
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Carleton.
In the 1990s the FBI were alerted that something was not quite right.
The FBI questioned Carleton's adopted sons.
It emerged that Carleton and one of his adopted sons had masturbated each other.
None of the other boys said Carleton had touched them.
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Carleton in New Guinea.
Several of the sons were willing to give evidence in his favour.
But, Carleton, in his 70s, was sent to jail.
He was unapologetic about his conviction.
Carleton often said he thought that American law was too prudish.
He pointed out that his boys came from cultures where man-boy sex was common and unremarkable.
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Carleton had a Slovak father and a Hungarian mother.
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek is the inspiration for Hanya Yanagihara's novel The People in the Trees.
Perina comes across as somewhat arrogant and 'unthinkingly cruel'.
"The novel contains a critique of western imperialism."
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara – review.
The documentary The Genius and the Boys by Bosse Lindquist, shown on BBC Four on June 1, 2009, explains that "seven men testified in confidentiality about Gajdusek having had sex with them when they were boys".
Four said "the sex was untroubling" while three said "the sex was a shaming, abusive and a violation".
Victim of kuru.
Gajdusek's best-known work focused on the disease called kuru.
This disease was rampant among the South Fore people of New Guinea in the 1950s and 1960s.
Gajdusek connected the spread of the disease to the practice of eating the brains of dead relatives (funerary canibalism) by the South Fore.
With elimination of cannibalism, kuru disappeared among the South Fore within a generation.
Four said "the sex was untroubling" while three said "the sex was a shaming, abusive and a violation".
Victim of kuru.
Gajdusek's best-known work focused on the disease called kuru.
This disease was rampant among the South Fore people of New Guinea in the 1950s and 1960s.
Gajdusek connected the spread of the disease to the practice of eating the brains of dead relatives (funerary canibalism) by the South Fore.
With elimination of cannibalism, kuru disappeared among the South Fore within a generation.
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