Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science.

摘要

Early on, Stuart Ritchie paraphrases Shakespeare's Mark Anthony, declaring that he 'comes to praise science, not to bury it'. Unlike the scheming Anthony of history and literature, though, Ritchie is not cloaking ulterior motives, but making quite a sincere statement of purpose from someone intimately acquainted with the worrying flaws underpinning the edifice of modern science.