As per my prior blogs this week, Machiavelli's Laboratory. is a satire on ethics, written from the perspective of an unethical scientist.
At present, the book is available at no cost, in html format or as a pdf file.
The MobiPocket version works well on my desktop PC, but it is still untested on mobile devices. It is available at:
http://www.julesberman.info/integ/mach_lab.prc If you try it out, please let me know if you had any problems uploading and viewing it on your Kindle or other mobile reader.
Here are the Table of Contents of Machiavelli's Laboratory:
Preface
Chapter 1 Falsification And Fabrication Of Data
1.1 Lessening the guilt: retractions, scapegoats, and clueless conspirators
1.2 Elite liars
1.3 When you are caught
1.4 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 2 Improving The Truth: The Art Of Scientific Misinterpretation
2.1 All statistical studies are open to misinterpretation
2.2 Introducing biases into your study
2.3 Falsification of conclusions
2.4 Misrepresenting progress in the war against cancer
2.5 Advice to evil scientists
Chapter 3 The Evil Writer
3.1 Co-authors
3.2 First credit
3.3 Evil books
3.4 Altering the past
3.5 Plagiarism
3.6 Plagiarism in a computer world
3.7 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 4 Evil Editors And Reviewers
4.1 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 5 Grantsmanship
5.1 True funding means never having to say you're sorry
5.2 Investing in science
5.3 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 6 Rejection
6.1 Applauding bad science
6.2 Progress? what progress?
6.3 The consequences of rejection
6.4 Advice to evil scientists
Chapter 7 Complexity: The Devil Is In The Details
7.1 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 8 Scientific Globetrotting
8.1 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 9 Evil Intellectual Property
9.1 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 10 Evil Standards
10.1 What the standards development organizations never do
10.2 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 11 Abusing Power
11.1 The department chief
11.2 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 12 Governments And Evil Science
12.1 Government cover-ups
12.2 Government against the people
12.3 The power of bureaucrats
12.4 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 13 Corporations And Evil Science
13.1 Erbitux and the brave new world of gene targeted therapy
13.2 It pays to advertise
13.3 Scientific organizations are instruments of large corporations
13.4 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 14 Universities And Evil Science
14.1 Academic freedom is the freedom to lie to your students
14.2 The fertile ground excuse
14.3 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 15 Ethics, And The Avoidance Of Same
15.1 Consent and unconsent
15.2 Conflicts of interest
15.3 Betraying confidentiality
15.4 Evil patients
15.5 Harming animals
15.6 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 16 Clinical Trials On Trial
16.1 Biases in survival data
16.2 Advice to evil scientists
Chapter 17 Scientific Disasters
17.1 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 18 Belief And Disbelief
18.1 Mathematics is neither science nor religion
18.2 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 19 Sex And Gender
19.1 Where the boys are
19.2 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 20 Greed
20.1 Cashing in on cancer
20.2 Off-label physicians
20.3 Ghost writers
20.4 Advice for evil scientists
Chapter 21 The Future Of Evil Scientists
21.1 Advice for evil scientists
Final Exam
Glossary
References
- Jules Berman
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