WHEN SCIENCE GOES WRONG

Twelve Tales from the Dark Side of Discovery

 

Baboons on Ecstasy, death by volcano and catastrophic nuclear explosions... this is what happens When Science Goes Wrong.

British neuroscientist Simon LeVay has investigated and catalogued some of the world's most astonishing scientific disasters including how:

* An Olympic athlete is left with a foetus growing in his brain when cutting edge neuroscience techniques are used to treat his Parkinson's Disease.

* A study into why children stutter which ends up ruining their lives when scientists deliberately introduce speech impediments and, to their horror, find they are permanent.

* An innocent young black man is convicted of rape and sent to prison for 25 years on the basis of 'infallible' DNA evidence which turns out to be completely bogus.

 

'Simon LeVay displays a decided verve for both storytelling and hardcore explication'

The Guardian

 

'Entertaining and thought-provoking'

Publisher's Weekly

 

'This book will intrigue you to the very last sentence'

Daily Mail

 

'The dark - but fascinating - side of science... an absorbing read'

Geotimes

 

'Spine-tingling occasionally gruesome accounts of well-meant but disastrous scientific bungling'

Los Angeles Times