When is 'Science on Stage' really science? Not very often, despite the claims of a lively new book.(Science on Stage: From 'Doctor Faustus' to 'Copenhagen')(Book review)
American Theatre, January, 2007 by Djerassi, Carl
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SCIENCE ON STAGE: FROM 'DOCTOR FAUSTUS' TO 'COPENHAGEN'
By Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Princeton University Press, 2006. 264 pp., $29.95 cloth.
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Kirsten Shepherd-Barr's Science on Stage: From 'Doctor Faustus' to 'Copenhagen' is a good read--it's well written and sophisticated but utterly biased. Bias is often interesting but always irritating. Webster's defines it as "systematic error introduced into sampling ... by selecting or encouraging one outcome or answer over others." In the very first paragraph of her book, Shepherd-Barr proclaims that "for centuries, ...
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