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Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology and Politics in Science
by
John Grant (Goodreads Author)
In Discarded Science, John Grant took a fascinating look at all the things science got wrong through the centuries. But at least those were honest mistakes. Grants attempt to deny climate change. The themes, while entertaining as ever, are serious and timely.
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published
November 1st 2007
by Artist's and Photographers' Press Ltd
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Corrupted Science by John Grant covers a lot of territory. It describes the politically motivated corruption of science from ancient times to present. The book is very easy to read. The last chapter covers the major corruption in three countries in recent times. Nazi Germany lost World War II because of the extreme corruption/politically corrected physics, biology, and mathematics. Similarly, the Stalinist Soviet Union suffered in politicized agicultural science, genetics and other areas, ev...more
(Original review: http://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2009/02/27/...)
Overall: Good
Writing: Fair
Re-Readability: Good
Info: Good
Grant provides an entertaining, sometimes outrageous, usually fascinating survey of scientific research and publication that has been corrupted in different fashions — faking data (intentionally or not), seeing what is expected (or desired) out of experiments, military wild goose chases (and corrupted budgets), religious and other popular ideol...more
Overall: Good
Writing: Fair
Re-Readability: Good
Info: Good
Grant provides an entertaining, sometimes outrageous, usually fascinating survey of scientific research and publication that has been corrupted in different fashions — faking data (intentionally or not), seeing what is expected (or desired) out of experiments, military wild goose chases (and corrupted budgets), religious and other popular ideol...more
Though you might not guess it from the title, this is an entertaining defense of science. He won me over in the little section on signing chimps.
Interesting. Grant initially explores corrupted and self-deluded science and scientists thought he ages – those looking for fame, fortune and those that went to great lengths to convince the world that they were right. Then he moves onto more organised pseudo-science in the Military and religious worlds. This leads on to ideology and politics and into the perversions of science carried out by Nazi Germany and the Stalinist USSR. Finally Grant considered the systematic obstruction and denial of S...more
Nicholas Karpuk
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Recommends it for:
Science Enthusiasts, Uppity Atheists
Recommended to Nicholas by:
Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing
A pissy tone in writing troubles me deeply. It's doubly troubling when I'm otherwise enjoying the content.
"Corrupted Science" covers some pretty fascinating territories. Discussing the abuses of science both from within and without is pretty fascinating stuff. The first third of the book works great for this reason.
Reading about often famous scientists who fudged their data, gaffs by the military in resesarch in development, and funded pseudoscience like ESP are...more
"Corrupted Science" covers some pretty fascinating territories. Discussing the abuses of science both from within and without is pretty fascinating stuff. The first third of the book works great for this reason.
Reading about often famous scientists who fudged their data, gaffs by the military in resesarch in development, and funded pseudoscience like ESP are...more
As far as I now remember, the flaw with this book was that though the author tries to be "scientific" and objective in his analysis of the corruption of science for political means etc, in reality it descends into an emotional diatribe against these corruptions which are sometimes as provable as those corruptions themselves. A little hypocritical at times but generally a good read
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One of those books that's going to be on my "currently reading" list for a long time. It's broken up into easily digestible chunks of interesting, historical, scientific trivia when people got it wrong. Either in error or in fraud it makes interesting reading in bits. It is, however, presented in a rather dry manner as to make it hard to read for extended periods of time.
Interesting, and somewhat sad - Illustrates the unfortunate truth of how science is influenced by ideologies. Reinforces the need to examine not just the science, but who is presenting it (media, politicians, etc...)
Very entertaining book of case-studies of fraudulent behaviour in science.
A fun read which can provide some interesting insights.
The style is choppy, detailed, and disconnected but some of the parts are scary and the sum of the parts is frightening. Politics and science, war and science, religion and science have a history that science often loses to illiteracy, willful ignorance, bias, hatred, and fervid belief.
A wonderful book!
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John Grant is author of some seventy books, of which about twenty-five are fiction, including novels like The World, The Hundredfold Problem, The Far-Enough Window and most recently The Dragons of Manhattan and Leaving Fortusa. His “book-length fiction” Dragonhenge, illustrated by Bob Eggleton, was shortlisted for a Hugo Award in 2003; its successor was The Stardragons. His first story collection,...more
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