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Brothers in Christ, I would like to bring THIS new book to your attention, in the hopes the all of you will follow suit and share other horror stories that highlight the fundamental evil produced by worshiping Charles Dawkins.
The book I present today is a list of atrocities and lies perpetrated on the unsuspecting and unsaved public. This list is not complete by any means. It will curdle your blood, I promise.
It just proves what we've been saying all along: science without Jesus is like a fish without a bicycle. Unthinkable.
The book I present today is a list of atrocities and lies perpetrated on the unsuspecting and unsaved public. This list is not complete by any means. It will curdle your blood, I promise.
Mostly, we hear about science’s triumphs — the wonder drugs, the moon landings, the ever-faster computers. But for every brilliant scientific success there are a dozen miserable failures. Usually these involve no more than some wasted funds and a blank spot on somebody’s resume. Once in a while, though, a scientific experiment doesn’t just fail — it goes spectacularly wrong. And that makes for a great story.
This book is a collection of 16 such stories, told by a renowned scientist and science writer. They include the following:
- The Runner’s Brain: Pathologist Rebecca Folkerth was shocked by what she found one night in 1991 while dissecting the body of 52-year-old Max Truex: parts of a foetus seemed to be growing inside his head. Truex, it turned out, had participated in a bizarre medical experiment.
- Meltdown: Before Richard L. McKinley could be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, his hands had to be cut off: they were too radioactive even for his lead-lined coffin. An experiment at a nuclear reactor in Idaho had gone awry, killing him and two others.
- The Ecstasy and the Agony: When neuroscientist George Ricaurte reported that the drug “Ecstasy” caused permanent brain damage, the news jolted politicians and party-goers alike. A year later, Ricaurte admitted his mistake: he had injected his monkeys with the wrong drug.
- The Day the Dam Broke: When the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles collapsed, a wall of water 140 feet high raced toward the ocean and killed hundreds of people. Even 75 years later, the geologist’s error that caused the catastrophe is apparent to anyone who visits the site.
- A New Way to Die: General Motors chemist Thomas Midgley was responsible for two disastrous inventions: leaded petrol that polluted the air and chlorofluorocarbon refrigerants that destroyed the ozone layer. But it was his little-known third invention that killed Midgley himself.
- The Wrong Man: It took the jury just two hours to convict Josiah Sutton. After all, a forensic scientist had testified that his DNA was a
1 in 694,000 match to the rapist’s. Sutton got a 25-year prison sentence, but he was innocent.
- The “Monster Experiment”: Could a normal child be taught to stutter? Speech pathologist Wendell Johnson decided to find out—using children in a state orphanage. The answer was no, but some of the children were psychologically scarred for life.
When Science Goes Wrong is an absorbing account of scientific misadventures. It does not point the finger of blame so much as it highlights the inherent risks associated with practicing science in a human context.
This book is a collection of 16 such stories, told by a renowned scientist and science writer. They include the following:
- The Runner’s Brain: Pathologist Rebecca Folkerth was shocked by what she found one night in 1991 while dissecting the body of 52-year-old Max Truex: parts of a foetus seemed to be growing inside his head. Truex, it turned out, had participated in a bizarre medical experiment.
- Meltdown: Before Richard L. McKinley could be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, his hands had to be cut off: they were too radioactive even for his lead-lined coffin. An experiment at a nuclear reactor in Idaho had gone awry, killing him and two others.
- The Ecstasy and the Agony: When neuroscientist George Ricaurte reported that the drug “Ecstasy” caused permanent brain damage, the news jolted politicians and party-goers alike. A year later, Ricaurte admitted his mistake: he had injected his monkeys with the wrong drug.
- The Day the Dam Broke: When the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles collapsed, a wall of water 140 feet high raced toward the ocean and killed hundreds of people. Even 75 years later, the geologist’s error that caused the catastrophe is apparent to anyone who visits the site.
- A New Way to Die: General Motors chemist Thomas Midgley was responsible for two disastrous inventions: leaded petrol that polluted the air and chlorofluorocarbon refrigerants that destroyed the ozone layer. But it was his little-known third invention that killed Midgley himself.
- The Wrong Man: It took the jury just two hours to convict Josiah Sutton. After all, a forensic scientist had testified that his DNA was a
1 in 694,000 match to the rapist’s. Sutton got a 25-year prison sentence, but he was innocent.
- The “Monster Experiment”: Could a normal child be taught to stutter? Speech pathologist Wendell Johnson decided to find out—using children in a state orphanage. The answer was no, but some of the children were psychologically scarred for life.
When Science Goes Wrong is an absorbing account of scientific misadventures. It does not point the finger of blame so much as it highlights the inherent risks associated with practicing science in a human context.
, and I will finally be able to prove that all sedimentary rocks were deposited in of after the Flood, Praise!
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