Eugenie S. Reich

Plastic Fantastic

How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Investigation of a celebrated scientific discovery that was revealed to be fraudulent from a journalist with a unique insight into the case

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mac Science / Macmillan Education
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780230224674
• ISBN-10: 0230224679
• Artikelnr.: 25930293

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Crystals Vision
Faking the Data
A Slave to Publication
A Nice Christmas Present for the Lab
How to Disarm Critics
Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Airtime
Scientists Astray
Plastic Fantastic
The Fraud Taboo
Getting the Word Out
A Kind of Confession
Where Are They Now?