Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery

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"Fabulous Science reveals many of these findings to the general reader for the first time. Often startling and always enthralling, they show that some of our most important scientific theories were initially accepted only because famous scientists fudged data, pulled rank, or were propped up by religious and political elites. Striking case-studies show that science is not always driven on by pure rationality: human factors can play at least as big a role in the origin and reception of scientific ideas. Even poorly attested theories can gain widespread acceptance if put forward by scientists with sufficient clout." Fabulous Science restores to the history of science its complex personalities, bitter rivalries, and intense human dramas which until recently have been overlain by myths and misconceptions.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780192804044
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 12/28/2002
  • Pages: 368

Meet the Author

John C. Waller is a Research Fellow at both the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London and Harvard University. He currently lives with his wife in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: What is history for? 1
Pt. 1 Right for the wrong reasons 10
1 The pasteurization of spontaneous generation 14
2 'The battle over the electron' 22
3 The eclipse of Isaac Newton: Arthur Eddington's 'proof' of general relativity 48
4 Very unscientific management 64
5 The Hawthorne studies: finding what you are looking for 78
Conclusion to Part 1: Sins against science? 99
Pt. 2 Telling science as it was 108
6 Myth in the time of cholera 114
7 'The Priest who held the key': Gregor Mendel and the ratios of fact and fiction 132
8 Was Joseph Lister Mr. Clean? 160
9 The Origin of Species by means of use-inheritance 176
10 'A is for ape, B is for Bible': science, religion, and melodrama 204
11 Painting yourself into a corner: Charles Best and the discovery of insulin 222
12 Alexander Fleming's dirty dishes 246
13 'A decoy of Satan' 268
Conclusion to Part 2: Sins against history? 284
Notes on sources 296
Index 302
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