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How a hoax fooled the faithful

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  • David Bodanis

    (David Bodanis is a writer based in London and the author of Passionate Minds.)

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Autumn Books: On Descartes' bones, Will Self's liver and scientist's lives Good reads in this year's Autumn Books special include Lisa Jardine's review of Descartes' Bones, in which Russell Shorto tracks the philosopher's remains across Europe and down the centuries. As well as a route map for body parts, Shorto sees a map of the creation of the modern mind in the resulting patterns. Will Self's Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes, is an extended hepatic metaphor. A four-part satire on modern life, it is sometimes nauseating but almost always on the nail, says our reviewer. But what of scientists' lives? Good question, says Georgina Ferry.

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  • David Bodanis, 2008. "How a hoax fooled the faithful," Nature, Nature, vol. 455(7215), pages 866-867, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:455:y:2008:i:7215:d:10.1038_455866a
    DOI: 10.1038/455866a
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