Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery by John Waller (Author)

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Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery by John Waller (Author)ISBN: 9780192804044 Publisher : Oxford University Press, 1 Dec. 2002 Hardcover, 320 pages The great biologist Louis Pasteur suppressed data that didn't support the case he was making. Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity was only 'confirmed' in 1919 because an eminent British scientist massaged his figures. Joseph Lister's famously spotless hospital wards were actually notoriously dirty. Gregor Mendel, supposed father of the science of

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