Chapter Summary

Much of the chapter is built around the story of Drs. Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren, whose groundbreaking work with the "ulcer bug" serves as one of the major sample cases we use throughout the textbook (some of their work is reproduced in Chapter 10, contained in Part II of Writing in the Sciences). Also treated in this chapter is the cold fusion debacle of Pons and Fleischmann (a narrative of events is presented in Figure 1.1); this case makes for an interesting comparison with the story of Marshall and Warren. As part of the study of communication in science, this chapter also focuses on collaboration and writing, drawing on the new case in the second edition on the Delphic Oracle, presented in Chapter 13 of Part II.