Free radicals
Subtitle: the secret anarchy of science
By: Michael Brooks
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781468306712
Subjects: Research; Popular works; Scientists; Psychology; Methodology; Science; Philosophy; Fraud in science; History; Human behavior; Moral and ethical aspects; Psychological aspects
Description: Reveals the extreme lengths to which scientists have gone to make discoveries, sharing colorful stories of drug use, mystical visions, and cheating by famous figures from Newton and Einstein to Watson and Crick.
Notes: Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: How it begins: Dreams, drugs and visions from God; title: Delinquents: Rules are there to be broken; title: Master of illusion: Evidence isn't everything; title: Playing with fire: No pain, no gain; title: Sacrilege: Breaking taboos is part of the game; title: Fight club: There's no prize for the runner-up; title: Defending the throne: Machiavelli would be proud; title: In the line of fire: Life on the barricades.