A review by bentleyc
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

2.0

The books was well written, but did seem to feel a bit dramatized at times. I was aware of almost all of the incidents described in the book and so it didn’t feel like there was a great deal of new information. In several of the incidents, the transgressors seemed more likely to have engaged in the activities more as a consequence of both their own social factors and society at large around them. While the author acknowledges this in several places, I think I was expecting something a little different from the summary.