Missing scientist no longer missing

About a month ago, Mike Martin published a profile in Psychology Today, all about Margie Profet, a controversial evolutionary biologist and McArthur fellow who had been missing since 2004. (I posted a link to his story here.)

Now Martin says that Margie Profet has turned up—alive, if not totally physically well. His story led her to realize people were looking for her and to get back in touch with her family.

At the time we lost track of her, Margie was in severe physical pain. Not wanting to trouble anyone else, she did not disclose the fact to us or to her friends, but moved to a new location in which she thought the pain would soon diminish. Instead, it persisted for many years. Unable to work because of it and subsequent injuries, she had long lived in poverty, sustained largely by the religion she had come to early in the decade.

Margie is finally home now, recovering from her long ordeal and hoping to find work in the near future. She is very happy to be reunited with her family, and we are overjoyed to have her back.

Read the rest of the letter from Margie Profet's mother at Mike Martin's website

• [Jim Saul]

  Despite continued challenges, it’s so wonderful to hear a followup that’s not the worst most of us had assumed. Here’s hoping she finds many new chapters to write, and turns her unique abilities to the many fields which have ripened during her sabbatical.

• [archanoid]

  “sustained largely by the religion she had come to early in the decade”

  What religion would that be?

  • [koko szanel]

    noo, its was “poverty sustained largely by the religion”

  • [Al Billings]

     Did you read the article or were you too lazy?

    • [doug rogers]

      did you?

• [BillStewart2012]

  I’m glad to hear she’s alive, and hope her health gets better.  I met her at a conference back in the 1990s, and she was a creative and interesting person.