Fabulous Science
- Authors
- Waller, John
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Tags
- science
- ISBN
- 9780192804044
- Date
- 2002-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 3.18 MB
- Lang
- en
The great biologist Louis Pasteur suppressed awkward data because it didn't support the case he was making; John Snow, the first epidemiologist was doing nothing others had not done before; Gregor Mendel, the supposed founder of genetics never grasped the fundamental principles of Mendelian genetics; and Joseph Lister's famously clean hospital wards were actually notoriously dirty.