Pandora"s Box. Seven stories about how science can harm us

About the book
7 Exciting stories about how the science that we used to consider the “engine of progress” went along the false path and caused great harm: from transfigure to Lainus Pauling with its vitamin C.
Science is also a kind of beautiful box of Pandora. We are curious to find out what she hides, so we, sometimes, release evil to the will, causing suffering and leading to death. In some cases, its results laid a slow-off bomb and, perhaps, will ultimately destroy us. Since they all go back to the beginning of the recorded story, but the effect of them is visible to this day, we can say that we have not learned a lesson with a Pandora box.
One of the key topics of this book is the history of scientists (many of whom were Nobel Prize laureates) who promoted ideas that are dangerous for humanity. Professor and Doctor of Medicine Paul Offit also touches on the pressing problem - the inability of scientific journals, the media and politicians to distinguish reasonable truth from dangerous ideas and their support for "harmful science".
For whom the book
For everyone who is interested in the history of science, especially its ambiguous and even slightly ominous pages.
For students, graduate students, university teachers.
About the author
Paul Offit - doctor of medicine, professor, author of more than 160 scientific articles and several popular books, holder of many awards and awards.
Paul heads the educational center for vaccination in the infectious department of the Philadelphia Children"s Hospital. He is also a professor of pediatrics of a medical school of Perelman of the Pennsylvania University. Offit is one of the creators of the vaccine against Rotavirus