Experiment and Interpretation: A Pathologist Reflects on Thirty Years of Cancer Research

How do scientists, medical scientists in particular, tackle the problems and challenges of their field? Myer H. Salaman, for many years a leading researcher in cancer, viruses and immunity, describes a series of investigations which exemplify the methods of scientific enquiry. His focus is upon biological research and he relates his own experiences of scientific method to the concepts advanced by the philosophers of science, above all by Sir Karl Popper, whom he reveres but criticizes.