Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

Reads like a thriller, until you realize it's not fiction:

I read the book after listening to the author on "Power-Hour" with Joyce Riley, the former army nurse who was one of the first to break the story of Gulf War Illness. First, I must say that In the Name of Science is easy to read. Dr. Goliszek writes for the non-science type and makes the true stories interesting. Some of the stuff is harrowing. The descriptions of human experiments are gruesome, but the author does a good job of documenting what he writes about. By the middle of the book, you wonder how... more info

excellent account of human experimentation:

What struck me as I was reading this book was the fact that human experimentation, as gruesome as it was in the past, may still be going on without our even knowing it. The author does a good job of telling us about things we probably never heard of, but an even better job of telling us what we may expect in the future. I found the chapters on ethnic weapons and future medical research especially good. If you believe this kind of thing is in our past and can't happen again, think again. Since 9/11, the... more info

Rehash of few sources:a real injustice to real investigators:

This is an extremely superficial book on medical experimentation. Most of his material could come
from Jay Katz's massive book on human experimentation that was published in 1972 or from summaries; anything since Katz are from selected other sources that are treated briefly. There is no original research here, very little analysis of human experiments, and the stealing and summarizing of
other peoples work. He ignores completely the four year long hearings of the Kennedy Sub-committee that led to the... more info

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