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S'està carregant… The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Sciencede Sam Kean
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This is one of those books that made me glad I abandoned the GR star rating system because.. well I have very mixed feelings and that doesn't translate well to a 5 star system! I learned a LOT of really fascinating stuff here and glad that I read it for that reason. The writing itself-- well it was good and clear buuuut the amount of phrases like "to be sure" and "to be fair" (even just those two specific phrases alone) would have made for a dangerous drinking game. It gave the work a sort of... I dunno, unintentional apologist tone? It was weirdly "tbf" to horrible practices but did make an effort to *acknowledge* that (not super successfully in my own opinion) so yeah, glad I ditched star ratings. I'd recommend to true crime fans interested in history and science that are willing to go in with a BIG grain of salt. The authorial tone can grate but the book does yield some really interesting looks into the facts of unethical scientific method throughout history. Audio narrator was terrific. In Icepick surgeon Sam Kean looks for scientists who did bad things in the name of science. In doing so, he mostly tries to avoid the easy ways out: most of the chapters are about sincere scientists, who at least start out meaning well, not cartoon villains. And on the flip side, Kean makes clear that there is no justification for the sorts of harm inflicted by these scientists -- he reminds us again and again that this is not how science advances. Reading it, I was stunned at how many of the tales were tales about scientists who did bad things in the name of MONEY, not science: taking to piracy, slave-trading, even murder with the goal of raising enough money to continue doing science. I complain bitterly about the NIH and the silly hoops for grant-funding, but at least science is funded. So much of historical science was only for people who were already gentry and could self-fund. Rating somewhere between 3.0 and 4.0 stars (Rating shown may vary depending on site.) I believe I learned about this book from BookPage which I get at the library. I didn't realize that I'd read another book by this author until something about that book was mentioned in this one. There were quite a few references to the author's works (other books, podcast, website, etc.) that seemed a bit self-serving, but . . . in this day and age, I guess whatever works to get people to buy your book or subscribe to your channels. If you're at all squeamish, you may want to skip this book. I don't consider myself squeamish as a rule but the section on lobotomies did get to me. Each part of the book discusses deeds perpetrated in the name of "progressing science". The appendix looks ahead at some potential issues that we could face as science and technology progress. I’ve never read a Sam Kean book, but was drawn to this one by a recommendation on Goodreads. Well researched, with a lot of history I was unaware of, but there was something about the style of writing that didn’t sit right with me. I couldn’t wait to finish just to get the book out of the way. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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I did feel like the female scientist in the last chapter was added just for some balance, but perhaps it was needed. ( )