Gaus says he was “quite surprised” to find out later that Karl Gauss had also published a pension fund analyis. Karl Gauss's analysis was of a German teacher's fund.
In the course of his later effort--in what might be called his “science journalism”--Gaus developed original, though controversial, ideas regarding ivirology and immunology.
For example, he has proposed that, because of the direction of nucleic acid transfer, “All viruses are male.” He has also put forward a new theory about immunology.
His central immunological thesis is that most cancers and other immune problems have associated with them either a heterogeneous substance or a heterogeneous collection of cells. This approach to immunology is derived, in part, from mathematical information theory. His first paper on the subject, published in 1992, had an unexpected and unintended effect on the 1992 presidential race.