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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe THE UNDERGROWTH OF SCIENCE: DELUSION, SELF-DECEPTION AND HUMAN FRAILTY * _Walter Gratzer_ Oxford University Press: 2000. 338 pp. £18.99,

$27.50 It came as a shock to many when Richard Feynman reviewed a subject that was backed by two opposing theories, each with strong experimental support, and concluded that the only answer

was that one of the experiments must be wrong. He was right, as usual, but for those educated in the Rutherford tradition of believing that experiments are the true basis of science, this

was almost a heresy. We are accustomed to theories being wild hypotheses, but not physical experiments! Once one accepts this possibility, however, false results can be found to occur fairly

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support AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * honorary staff member of CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland Douglas R. O. Morrison Authors * Douglas R. O. Morrison View author

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