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Icepick surgeon [sound recording] : murder, fraud, sabotage, piracy, and other dastardly deeds perpetuated in the name of science / by Kean, Sam,author.(CARDINAL)325615; Sullivan, Ben,narrator.;
Prologue: Cleopatra's legacy -- Introduction -- Piracy: the buccaneer biologist -- Slavery: the corruption of the flycatcher -- Grave-robbing: Jekyll & Hyde, Hunter & Knox -- Murder: the professor and the janitor -- Animal cruelty: the war of the currents -- Sabotage: the bone wars -- Oath-breaking: ethically impossible -- Ambition: surgery of the soul -- Espionage: the variety act -- Torture: the white whale -- Malpractice: sex, power, and money -- Fraud: superwoman -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The future of crime.Read by Ben Sullivan.From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets.Science is a force for good in the world?at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister.Science is a force for good in the world--at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn't everything, it's the only thing--no matter the cost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the true story of what happens when unfettered ambition pushes otherwise rational men and women to cross the line in the name of science, trampling ethical boundaries and often committing crimes in the process.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Medical ethics; Research; Science and civilization; Science; Science; Scientists;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Sun and the moon : the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York / by Goodman, Matthew.(CARDINAL)463718;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A study of a nineteenth-century journalistic hoax describes how a series of articles appearing in the "New York Sun" in 1835 purported to reveal lunar discoveries made by a noted British astronomer concerning life on the moon.
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Day, Benjamin Henry, 1810-1889.; Sun (New York, N.Y. : 1833); Fraud in science; Great Moon Hoax; Journalism;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The icepick surgeon [audio-enabled device] murder, fraud, sabotage, piracy, and other dastardly deeds perpetrated in the name of science / by Kean, Sam,author.(CARDINAL)325615; Sullivan, Ben,narrator.; Findaway World, LLC.(CARDINAL)345268; Hachette Audio (Firm).(CARDINAL)346394; Playaway Digital Audio.(CARDINAL)565887;
Read by Ben Sullivan."The Icepick Surgeon ... guides the reader across two thousand years of history, beginning with Cleopatra's dark deeds in ancient Egypt. The book reveals the origins of much of modern science in the transatlantic slave trade of the 1700s, as well as Thomas Edison's mercenary support of the electric chair and the warped logic of the spies who infiltrated the Manhattan Project. But the sins of science aren't all safely buried in the past. Many of them, Kean reminds us, still affect us today. We can draw direct lines from the medical abuses of Tuskegee and Nazi Germany to current vaccine hesitancy, and connect icepick lobotomies from the 1950s to the contemporary failings of mental-health care. Kean even takes us into the future, when advanced computers and genetic engineering could unleash whole new ways to do one another wrong."--Provided by publisher.Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Medical ethics.; Research; Science; Science; Scientists;
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The icepick surgeon : murder, fraud, sabotage, piracy, and other dastardly deeds perpetrated in the name of science / by Kean, Sam,author.(CARDINAL)325615;
Science is a force for good in the world--at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn't everything, it's the only thing--no matter the cost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the true story of what happens when unfettered ambition pushes otherwise rational men and women to cross the line in the name of science, trampling ethical boundaries and often committing crimes in the process. The Icepick Surgeon masterfully guides the reader across two thousand years of history, beginning with Cleopatra's dark deeds in ancient Egypt. The book reveals the origins of much of modern science in the transatlantic slave trade of the 1700s, as well as Thomas Edison's mercenary support of the electric chair and the warped logic of the spies who infiltrated the Manhattan Project. But the sins of science aren't all safely buried in the past. Many of them, Kean reminds us, still affect us today. We can draw direct lines from the medical abuses of Tuskegee and Nazi Germany to current vaccine hesitancy, and connect icepick lobotomies from the 1950s to the contemporary failings of mental-health care. Kean even takes us into the future, when advanced computers and genetic engineering could unleash whole new sways to do one another wrong. Unflinching, and exhilarating to the last page, The Icepick Surgeon fuses the drama of scientific discovery with the illicit thrill of a true-crime tale. With his trademark wti and precision, Kean shows that, while science has done more good than harm in the world, rogue scientists do exist, and when we sacrifice morals for progress, we often end up with neither. --Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-348) and index.
Subjects: True crime stories.; Science; Research; Science; Scientists; Medical ethics.;
Available copies: 30 / Total copies: 36
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Historians in trouble : plagiarism, fraud, and politics in the ivory tower / by Wiener, Jon.(CARDINAL)733387;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Case studies.; Fraud; Historians; Historians; Historiography; Mass media; Plagiarism; Power (Social sciences); Professional ethics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rescuing science : restoring trust in an age of doubt / by Sutter, Paul M.,1982-author.(CARDINAL)783592;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: The modern science -- The persistence of fraud -- The avoidance of risk -- The lack of careers -- The politicization of science -- The disdain for non-scientists -- The lack of diversity -- The disregard for the public -- Epilogue: The virtues of science"Examines the growing social distrust toward the scientific community, grounding its source in the academic scientific community itself, and offers solutions on how to solve it"--
Subjects: Research; Research; Research;
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Fraud : essays / by Rakoff, David.(CARDINAL)705015;
Subjects: American essays; American wit and humor.;
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Is that a fact? : frauds, quacks, and the real science of everyday life / by Schwarcz, Joe,author.(CARDINAL)539721;
In the beginning -- Black -- Gray -- White -- In the end.Organic is better for you .. no, it's not. Scientists just discovered a miracle weight-loss food... no, wait, it's actually bad for you. Schwarcz help you separate fact from fiction amid the storm of misinformation that today's media throws at us.1240L
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Science; Science;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The scientific attitude : defending science from denial, fraud, and pseudoscience / by McIntyre, Lee C.,author.(CARDINAL)355433;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Scientific method and the problem of demarcation -- Misconceptions about how science works -- The importance of the scientific attitude -- The scientific attitude need not solve the problem of demarcation -- Practical ways in which scientists embrace the scientific attitude -- How the scientific attitude transformed modern medicine -- Science gone wrong : fraud and other failures -- Science gone sideways : denialists, pseudoscientists, and other charlatans -- The case for the social sciences -- Valuing science.Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is ٢only a theory,٣ and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians' rhetorical repertoire. Defenders of science often point to its discoveries (penicillin! relativity!) without explaining exactly why scientific claims are superior. In this book, Lee McIntyre argues that what distinguishes science from its rivals is what he calls ٢the scientific attitude٣--caring about evidence and being willing to change theories on the basis of new evidence. The history of science is littered with theories that were scientific but turned out to be wrong; the scientific attitude reveals why even a failed theory can help us to understand what is special about science. McIntyre offers examples that illustrate both scientific success (a reduction in childbed fever in the nineteenth century) and failure (the flawed ٢discovery٣ of cold fusion in the twentieth century). He describes the transformation of medicine from a practice based largely on hunches into a science based on evidence; considers scientific fraud; examines the positions of ideology-driven denialists, pseudoscientists, and ٢skeptics٣ who reject scientific findings; and argues that social science, no less than natural science, should embrace the scientific attitude. McIntyre argues that the scientific attitude--the grounding of science in evidence--offers a uniquely powerful tool in the defense of science.
Subjects: Science; Science; Pseudoscience.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cybercrime / by Gray, Leon,1974-author.(CARDINAL)463421;
Includes bibliographical references (page 47) and index.Cybercrime -- What is cybercrime? -- In the lab -- Computer hacking -- Infecting computers -- Spamming -- Fraud on the web -- Online bullies -- The future of cybercrime.
Subjects: Computer crimes; Computer crimes;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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