Editor Sylvia Engdahl has compiled several essays in a pro versus con format that debate the hot-topic controversies of scientific research. Across four chapters, readers will analyze whether the government should fund scientific research, whether there is too much regulation of it, whether animals should be used, and whether fraud and misconduct by scientists is commonplace. Essay sources include the National Research Council, the American Anti-Vivisection Society, Associated Press, and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.