Drunken Goldfish and Other Irrelevant Scientific Research

by William Hartston

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044921804X
• ISBN13: 9780449218044
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.

Customer Reviews

For all of you Knowledge Freaks...

The author has done a great job.He has written two other books of a similar nature, one more recently in 2005. I can best summarize this one with a quote from the Section entitled 'Knowledge in Depth': "The second potentially serious aspect of this work is just to drop a gentle hint that there might be too much research going on, and much of that is taken far too seriously. I have nothing but admiration for dedicated researchers ,and I have no wish to criticize their work as useless. No doubt great value has come out of apparently inconsequential research. But it must be admitted that a great deal of space on shelves is occupied by dissertations and theses which add very little to worthwhile knowledge. A post-graduate project may be excellent training in the methodology of research, but thereafter, destined to be read by an average 1.6 people, can seem little more than a waste of paper."