Michael Brooks nimmt sich in diesem Buch die Zunft der Forscher zur
Brust. Mit einer Fülle faszinierender Geschichten zeigt er, dass
Wissenschaftler durchaus keine objektiven, abwägenden, gerechten
„Übermenschen“ sind, sondern Individuen, die ein Ziel, eine
Vision antreibt und die dieses Ziel auch gegen Widerstände, auf
eigene Kosten wie auf Kosten anderer, in der Überzeugung, recht zu
haben, verfolgen und dabei nicht selten „unordentliche“ Pfade
einschlagen – „freie Radikale“ eben. Informationstext zur
englischen Ausgabe: How did Newton, Galileo, Einstein and myriad
Nobel laureates create the modern world? Through anarchy. In science,
anything goes ...For more than fifty years, scientists have been
involved in a cover-up that is arguably one of the most successful of
modern times. It has succeeded because even the scientists haven’t
understood what has been going on. The public image of science - cool,
logical, rational, level-headed; rather boring, in other words – was
a careful creation. The reality of science is very different. To make
a breakthrough or to stay on top, scientists take drugs, they follow
crazy dreams, they experiment on themselves and on one another, and
occasionally they die in the process. They fight – sometimes
physically, but mostly in intellectual battles that can wreck careers
and end in suicide. They break all the rules of polite society,
trampling on the sacred and showing a total disregard for authority.
They commit fraud or deceive or manipulate others in order to get to
the truth about how the world works. They conjure up seemingly
ridiculous ideas, then fight tooth and nail to show that the ideas are
not only far from ridiculous, but exactly how things really are. Some
challenge the interests of government and business, occasionally
sacrificing their reputations for the greater good. Science is
peppered with successes that defy rational explanation, and failures
that seem even more illogical. There are moments of euphoria and –
just once in ten thousand working lifetimes – world-changing
success...
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ISBN
9783642416965
Publisert
2019
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Springer Spektrum
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Tysk
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Digital bok
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