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Free Radicals The Secret Anarchy of Science

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ISBN-10: 1590208544

ISBN-13: 9781590208540

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael Brooks

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The thrilling exploration of the secret side of scientific discovery --proving that some rules were meant to be broken scientists have colluded in the most successful cover-up of modern times. They present themselves as cool, logical, and level-headed, when the truth is that they will do anything --take drugs, follow mystical visions, lie and even cheat --to make a discovery. They are often more interested in starting revolutions than in playing by the rules. In Free Radicals, bestselling author Michael Brooks reveals the extreme lengths some of our most celebrated scientists --such as Newton, Einstein, and Watson and Crick --are willing to go to, from fraud to reckless, unethical…    
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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Abrams, Inc.
Publication date: 4/26/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Michael Brooks is the veteran of more than 20 years of year-round club, high school, summer league, and country club swim coaching. He has worked with all levels, from novice to Olympic Trial athletes. He coaches swimmers ages 8 to 18 so that he can keep the beginning, middle, and end of swimmer development in mind at all times.Since October 2006 Brooks has been head coach of the York YMCA swimming team in York, Pennsylvania. Before that, he spent two years as the head age-group coach of the Brophy East swimming team in Phoenix, Arizona, and five years as head coach of the York site of the North Baltimore Aquatic Club (Michael Phelps' home club), where he worked with renowned coaches Murray…    

Prologue
How it Begins
Dreams, drugs and visions from God
The Delinquents
Rules are there to be broken
Masters of Illusion
Evidence isn't everything
Playing with Fire
No pain, no gain
Sacrilege
Breaking taboos is part of the game
Fight Club
There's no prize for the runner-up
Defending the Throne
Machiavelli would be proud
In the Line of Fire
Life on the barricades
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes and sources
Index