09 August 2009

Letter from Lhasa, number 126. (Harman 2008): Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biolog

Letter from Lhasa, number 126. (Harman 2008): Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology

by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi


[Editors] Harman, O., and M. R. Dietrich, Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology, Yale University Press, 2008.

(Harman 2008).

Oren Harman

Michael R. Dietrich



Focused on biology, this book is on the importance, at least in part, of dissent, heresy, iconoclasm, for the advancement of science. It reviews a certain numbers of subjects with such characteristics, as indicated in its title.


Differences, in whatever field, actually need (this is evidenced in the book) some institutional power or they have to become, in some way, institutional power. Without some recognition, whatever discovery would remain in the Kingdom of Nothing.



[Editors] Harman, O., and M. R. Dietrich, Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology, Yale University Press, 2008.