An entertaining, educational, and depressing look at the lengths people will go to lie cheat and steal their way into false truths. It's important to remember that while the method of scientific discovery is in theory an excellent one, the humans tasked with executing that method are fallible creatures who require a lot of supervision and peer review.

A great book for people who like history, factoids, and scientific weirdness. Also good for those who think that our current era of anti-science crusading is anything new. ( )

Disappointingly poor. A concoction of half truths and many opinions slanted to his view of what is correct. If he disagrees, then it must be wrong.
After awhile, I jumped from one subject to another with no better results. One thing I fail to understand is his desire to use an alias. Definitely not worthy of passing on to the next reader.. ( )

A wonderful book! ( )

A journalist describes and comments on the history of various cases of government misrepresentation of science for political and ideological motives, citing three governments as particularly noteworthy in this regard: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, and George W. Bush's America ( )

The less-than-pleasant tale of how politics has corrupted science (in Stalin's Russia, Nazi Germany, and Bush's America). ( )