Bold Science by Ted Anton, W. H. Freeman, $24.95, ISBN 0716735121
YOU’D have to have been asleep for the past ten years not to notice it: the
ground is shifting under science, and shifting fast. Once it seemed a solid
refuge for those who sought security in immutable truths. Now it’s a danger zone
where intellectual shrapnel ricochets off established institutions and where
charm and greed can count for as much as care and honesty.
But there are pay-offs. With breathtaking speed, a new breed of bulletproof,
boundary-hopping scientific individualists is bringing us startling, richly
promising insights into the nature…
