Failure : Why Science Is So Successful.

Cover -- Failure -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One Failing to Define Failure -- Two Fail Better: Advice from Samuel Beckett -- Three The Scientific Basis of Failure -- Four The Unreasonable Success of Failure -- Five The Integrity of Failure -- Six Teaching Failure -- Seven The Arc of Failure -- Eight The Scientific Method of Failure -- Nine Failure in the Clinic -- Ten Negative Results: How to Love Your Data When It's Wrong -- Eleven Philosopher of Failure -- Twelve Funding Failure -- Thirteen Pharma Failure -- Fourteen A Plurality of Failures -- Fifteen Coda -- Notes and Works Consulted -- Index.

In his sequel to Ignorance (Oxford University Press, 2012), Stuart Firestein shows us that the scientific enterprise is riddled with mistakes and errors - and that this is a good thing! Failure: Why Science Is So Successful delves into the origins of scientific research as a process that relies upon trial and error, one which inevitably results in a hefty dose of failure.

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