Drunken Goldfish & Other Irrelevant Scientific Research

The author has done a great job.He has written two other books of a similar nature, one more recently in 2005. I can best summarize this one with a quote from the Section entitled 'Knowledge in Depth': "The second potentially serious aspect of this work is just to drop a gentle hint that there might be too much research going on, and much of that is taken far too seriously. I have nothing but admiration for dedicated researchers ,and I have no wish to criticize their work as useless. No doubt great value has come out of apparently inconsequential research. But it must be admitted that a great deal of space on shelves is occupied by dissertations and theses which add very little to worthwhile knowledge. A post-graduate project may be excellent training in the methodology of research, but thereafter, destined to be read by an average 1.6 people, can seem little more than a waste of paper."