A review by raventheclaw19
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.0
Interesting. Not exactly what I expected; more variegated in subject than I thought it would be. It centered more around a theme (immoral science) than a topic (e.g. DNA).
Altogether, it was an interesting read. It reads like a podcast transcript (featuring notes in parentheses and sarcastic comments at the end of a paragraph e.g. “yeah right”)
Kean does a great job discussing the ethics of using immoral research (see: his discussion of slavery and how it still affects scientists in the future)
Altogether, it was an interesting read. It reads like a podcast transcript (featuring notes in parentheses and sarcastic comments at the end of a paragraph e.g. “yeah right”)
Kean does a great job discussing the ethics of using immoral research (see: his discussion of slavery and how it still affects scientists in the future)