 "Science on the verge", written by Alice Benessia, Silvio Funtowicz, Mario Giampietro, Ângela Guimarães Pereira, Jerome Ravetz, Andrea Saltelli, Roger Strand, and Jeroen P. van der Sluijs, with a preface by Dan Sarewitz, follows different threads of the present science's crisis (lost reproducibility, collapsing peer review, perverse metrics, evidence based policy's dysfunctions, techno-science and his hubris, science as metaphysics ...) and presents a first systematic analysis of the main causes of the present predicaments.From Joseph A. Tainter, Professor of Sustainability, Utah State University, "Scientists working in the policy arena are often naïve about the impact of their findings.Producing rational results, scientists expect their research to be rationally accepted.