I am really excited to share my new book, The Ice Pick Surgeon, Murder, Fraud, Sabotage,

Piracy, and other dastardly deeds perpetrated in the name of science, which is available

starting today.

So I hope you'll enjoy this extended excerpt from the audiobook edition, read by Ben Sullivan.

The full audiobook is 12 hours long and it's perfect if you can't get enough of this podcast.

Listen on your commute, your next road trip, during errands, you name it.

Ben read my previous audiobooks as well, and I cannot tell you how much listeners have

enjoyed his work.

I've dropped some links to order the audiobook at samkine.com slash audio.

The Ice Pick Surgeon can also be found wherever audiobooks are sold, and of course it's available

in print and e-book editions as well.

Most people say that it is the intellect, which makes a great scientist.

They are wrong, it is character, Albert Einstein.

All I can say is, it's against the law to do many things, but the law winks when a reputable

man wants to do a scientific experiment, Dr. Thomas Rivers.

Prologue, Cleopatra's legacy.

According to legend, the first unethical science experiment in history was designed by

none other than Cleopatra.

At some point during her reign, 51 to 30 BCE, a question arose among Egyptian scholars.

When can you first tell whether babies are male or female in the womb?

No one knew.

So Cleopatra enlisted some maid servants in a fiendish plan.

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