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In 1982, scientist David Dolphin suggested that Porphyria was linked with legends of both vampirism and werewolves, receiving much media exposure.
The year is wrong: David Dolphin's porphyria-vampire theory was publicized in 1985, not 1982.
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Contemporaneous coverage places David Dolphin's vampire/porphyria proposal in 1985. A May 31, 1985 Washington Post report describes Dolphin presenting the idea in Los Angeles on May 30, 1985. A Los Angeles Times follow-up likewise says Dolphin had proposed the theory at an AAAS meeting held in Los Angeles "last May" and discusses the media reaction in August 1985. A later UPI retrospective explicitly says the theory was "first proposed" by Dolphin in 1985. That makes the article's specific date, 1982, incorrect even though the rest of the sentence about the theory and its publicity is broadly accurate.
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- Dracula, Wolf Man Legends May Contain a Drop of Truth - The Washington Post
LOS ANGELES, May 30, 1985 -- ... David Dolphin of the University of British Columbia ... said the folk mythology may have had some truth.
- Vampire Theory Haunts Porphyria Victims - Los Angeles Times
The accompanying article said that ... David Dolphin, had proposed at a meeting of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science, held in Los Angeles last May, that creatures known as vampires and werewolves were actually victims of ... porphyria...
- Vampires: the myth and the reality - UPI Archives
The theory linking porphyrics to vampires was first proposed by chemist David Dolphin, of the University of British Columbia, in 1985.