Albert Einstein was chosen by Time magazine as the Person of the Twentieth Century.  It was a good choice (and now is a good time to read Einstein more than seventy years after his death in April 1955, here and here ).  As noted by Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer in their newly published book, The Credibility Crisis in Science: Tweakers, Fraudsters, and the Manipulation of Empirical Results , Einstein finished ahead of the runners-up Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who saved capitalism from itself during the Great Depression, and Mohandas Gandhi, who showed the world that, despite the iron will of Winston Churchill, the sun was setting rapidly on the British Empire.  Plümper and Neumayer write “Those days are over (for science). And they may never come back.”  This is the theme of their book, and they might be right. We have discussed the problems of modern science here often, going back to my first contribution here .…