For more than a century, Science has cultivated a sober public image for itself.
In science, anything goes..
That\'s why fraud, suppressing evidence and unethical or reckless PR games are sometimes necessary to bring the best and most brilliant discoveries to the world\'s attention.
Science is a highly competitive and ruthless discipline, and only its most determined and passionate practitioners make headlines - and history.
Inspiration can come from the most unorthodox of places: Nobel laureates sometimes get their ideas through drugs, dreams and hallucinations.
This thrilling exploration of some of the greatest breakthroughs in Science reveals the extreme lengths some scientists go to in order to make their theories public.
But the truth is very different: many of our most successful scientists have more in common with libertines than librarians.
For more than a century, Science has cultivated a sober public image for itself