High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Henry Hermann Bauer (born Austria, 1931) is an emeritus professor of chemistry and science studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ("Virginia Tech"). He is the author of several books and articles on such topics as the Loch Ness Monster and Immanuel Velikovsky, and is an AIDS denialist. Following his retirement in 1999, he was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration, a fringe science publication. Bauer also served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Tech., generating controversy by criticising affirmative action.