Professor Paul Offit tells seven fascinating stories of how famous scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, promoted ideas that were dangerous to humanity. Medicines based on the opium poppy, margarine, chemical weapons and synthetic fertilizers, the need to fight for the purity of the race, lobotomy, the ban on DDT, vitamin C to cure cancer - these are the worst, according to the author, “achievements” of science. Offit also touches on a current problem - the inability of scientific journals, the media and politicians to distinguish well-founded truth from lies - and offers ways to avoid similar mistakes in the future. For everyone who is interested in the history of science, especially its controversial and even slightly sinister pages. Published in Russian for the first time.< /p>