Science is the world's new religion" but what happens when it goes
terribly wrong? 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. A long-distance
runner's Parkinson's Disease is treated with revolutionary
neuroscience techniques, which leave a foetus growing in his brain.
A study into why children stutter ends up ruining their lives when
scientists deliberately introduce speech impediments, and, to their
horror, find they are permanent. British neuroscientist Simon LeVay
explains how elementary mistakes, miscaculations and simple bad
science sometimes lead to death (when anthrax spores escape from a
lab, or a nuclear plant explodes) and other times to expensive
farce (when a tiny data error sends a space probe hurtling to
oblivion, or when an 'impossible' hurricane wreaks havoc across the
UK). Baboons on ecstasy, death-by-volcano and the failure of gene
therapy to perform as advertised also feature in this authoritative
and entertaining study of the limitations of science.
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