adrian_bubie 's review for:

Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions by Richard F. Harris

3.0

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Harris ultimately tackles the same issue and says the same thing in 10 different ways; scientists are sloppy because they're either pushed too hard to publish, not being careful, or just don't care. While it's an important and rarely talked about point (as he mentions multiple times) that bad experimental design and execution leads to bad data which leads to all kinds of waste (money, time, hope), I feel this would have been better accomplished in a series of articles. Overall the book was just a little too long. Harris' writing is quite good, though, so if you are a fan of his from his NPR days, I would say still give this a shot.