{"product_id":"9780393254860","title":"The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"You read with a rising sense of despair and outrage, and you finish it as if awakening from a nightmare only Kafka could have conceived.\"--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e David Baltimore won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1975. Known as a wunderkind in the field of immunology, he rose quickly through the ranks of the scientific community to become the president of the distinguished Rockefeller University. Less than a year and a half later, Baltimore resigned from his presidency, citing the personal toll of fighting a long battle over an allegedly fraudulent paper he had collaborated on in 1986 while at MIT. From the beginning, the Baltimore case provided a moveable feast for those eager to hold science more accountable to the public that subsidizes its research. Did Baltimore stonewall a legitimate government inquiry? Or was he the victim of witch hunters? \u003cem\u003eThe Baltimore Case\u003c\/em\u003e tells the complete story of this complex affair, reminding us how important the issues of government oversight and scientific integrity have become in a culture in which increasingly complicated technology widens the divide between scientists and society.","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121469931760,"sku":"9780393254860","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393254860_p0.jpg?v=1763696946","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393254860","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}