David Goodstein (1)
Auteur van Out of Gas: The End of the Age Of Oil
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This book details America's energy past, present, and future, looking at the impact of oil and the impact of declining supplies. The author looks toward the future, when we will no longer be able to support the same level of consumption that we've become used to, and suggests that we might start thinking of alternatives before it gets too late.
Good review of the possibility of a peak oil crisis. Goodstein is equally concerned with climate change processes, so his outlook is broader in scope than most of those writing on this topic.
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This book is a quick read and rather superficial. It seems accurate enough as far as it goes, but it doesn't go very far. It's a bit hard to figure what a suitable audience might be. Perhaps it could be a supplementary text for an undergraduate class in history of science. It is just a little sip of philosophy of science.
Goodstein helped to draw up the process for handling allegations of research misconduct at CalTech. He tells some stories here out of his personal experience and some other related stories. Milliken's oil drop experiments, cold fusion, high temperature superconductors, those are the stories that didn't involve fraud. Goodstein mentions the David Baltimore case but doesn't give any details. He just points out that that case helped to show the inadequacies of some of the misconduct processes at that time.
This whole topic is actually of crucial importance. Look at that case of the British climate scientists who were filtering or massaging data. Was that really fraudulent? How scientists create the world they display, and how that more clear and precise world might somehow be truer than the ever-shifting turbulent world of direct experience, this is both deep and of huge impact. Goodstein's sketch here doesn't really even hint at the profundities that he glosses over. It's actually a typical sort of scientist's approach. Most scientists don't see the point of philosophy of science. Science, with its objective stance, takes interest purely in the world out there. It is actually a form of escapism! Strange but there is something pathological right at the heart of science. That dismissal of philosophy of science is not as casual as it might appear! Goodstein doesn't hint at the depths because he, as a scientist, is constitutionally committed to leaving then unacknowledged.… (meer)