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p. 244 she had to stab the stiletto heel of her shoe into his foot: Personal communication; the source wishes to remain anonymous.
p. 244 Crick regularly smoked pot and used LSD later in life: Ridley, Francis Crick, p. 156.
p. 244 ‘He told me about a lot of private things …’: Cristof Koch, personal email communication.
p. 245 ‘cheer up and take it from us that even if we kicked you in the pants …’: A. Gann and J. Witowski, ‘The Lost Correspondence of Francis Crick’, Nature, vol. 467, p. 519 (2010).
p. 245 She was ‘too determined to be scientifically sound and to avoid shortcuts’: F. Crick, ‘How to Live with a Golden Helix’, The Sciences, September 1979, p. 6, available at profiles.nlm.nih.gov/SC/B/C/D/V/_/scbcdv.pdf
p. 245 ‘Rosalind, it seems to me, was too cautious.’: F. Crick, Letter to Charlotte Friend, 18 September 1979, held in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, available at http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/SC/B/B/X/T/
p. 246 Richard Feynman, enjoyed marijuana and LSD: This is mentioned in J. Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Vintage, 1993), p. 406.
p. 246 Carl Sagan was also a regular user of cannabis: Sagan describes his experiences in an anonymous essay for publication in L. Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered (Harvard University Press, 1971), p. 109. ‘Mr X’ is available at http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/mr_x.html
p. 248 his co-recipients of the 1962 Nobel Prize, were furious: M. Ridley, ‘Neither Fish nor Flesh’, The Author, Summer 2010, p. 54.
p. 248 ‘It is a layman’s illusion’: P. Medawar, The Limits of Science (Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 101.
p. 249 ‘In terms of the fulfilment of declared intentions …’: P. Medawar, The Limits of Science, p. 65.
p. 249 each time a natural limit has been suggested, it has been exceeded: R. Smith, ‘A Brief History of Ageing’, Spotlight, September 2007, available at http://www.research-horizons.cam.ac.uk/spotlight/a-brief-history-of-ageing.aspx
p. 250 he railed against having to modify a paper to meet the objections of his colleagues: D. Kennefick, ‘Einstein Versus the Physical Review’, Physics Today, September 2005, p. 43. See also ‘Three Myths About Scientific Peer Review’, 8 January 2009, a fascinating blog post by Michael Nielsen at http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/three-myths-about-scientific-peer-review/
p. 250 The famous Crick and Watson paper on the structure of DNA was also not peer-reviewed: J. Maddox, ‘How Genius Can Smooth the Road to Publication’, Nature, vol. 426, p. 119 (2003).
p. 252 ‘… not the only way to ensure quality control in science’: M. Rees, ‘Not Worth the Paper’, New Scientist, 23 November 2002, p. 27.
p. 253 ‘Scientists should be on tap, but not on top’: W. Churchill, Twenty-One Years (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964), p. 127.
p. 254 ‘It is a perversion of democracy to muffle the voice of the most knowledgeable …’: M. Nelson and J. Vutevich, ‘The Moral Obligations of Scientists’, Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 August 2010, available at http://www.fw.msu.edu/documents/MoralObligationsOfScientists.pdf
p. 254 A study in Scotland, for instance, approached nineteen committees: K. Ah-See et al., ‘Local Research Ethics Committee Approval for a National Study in Scotland’, Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, vol. 43, p. 303 (1998).
p. 255 ‘The burdens imposed by ethics review might be justified …’: P. Glasziou and I. Chalmers, ‘Ethics Review Roulette: What Can We Learn?’, British Medical Journal, vol. 328, p. 121 (2004).
p. 256 As the philosopher Rousseau suggested: J.-J. Rousseau, Émile (The Echo Library, 2007), p. 128. Rousseau believed that only when the child is more mature should they be taught methods of learning science.
p. 256 Traditional forms of education, he says, can hamper scientific creativity in students: M. Villiger, ‘Meet the Ovshinskys’, Scientific American