ience was based on critical assessment of the work of others, yet there was an avoidance of value judgments such as the statement by Nobel laureate, Julius Axelrod: "Ninety-nine percent of the discoveries are made by one percent of the scientists," Proceedings of 11w American Philosophical Society, vol. 149, no

in 1975. A year or so after our Nature paper was published, the Nobel Prize winning neuropharmacologist at the National Institutes of Mental Health, Julius Axelrod, confirmed the presence of the DMT biosynthetic enzyme that converted the tryptophan product, tryptamine, to DMT in mammalian brain tissue. We were b