Christopher Exley is one of the most knowledgeable and widely cited aluminum researchers in the world. Exley has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers and recently authored a book about aluminum, “Imagine You Are an Aluminum Atom: Discussions With Mr. Aluminum” (Skyhorse, 2020). 
However, in July of last year, Exley was forced out of his position as a tenured professor. His extensive scientific discoveries, he explained, have started to call into question the safety of aluminum, especially when it becomes sequestered in the human brain.
Instead of celebrating this important science, Exley’s university withdrew funding for his research.
A Devoted Aluminum Researcher
On any given day in his old laboratory at Keele University in Staffordshire, England, you could find Exley—bespectacled, blue-jeaned, and pony-tailed—looking over an experiment design with his graduate students, double-checking the results of an analysis, or discussing the meaning of his team’s most recent findings….