The author looks back with 20/20 hindsight at the Galeras tragedy and second guesses the leading volcanologists in the world. Her credentials are suspect. She seems to be cashing in on the much more authoratative Surviving Galeras by presenting the author Stanley Williams as a vain maverick. Williams addresses the controversy visible now after the eruption but Bruce presents all the volcanologists as either good or evil. She does not seem to grasp the nuances of science,particularly a young and very imprecise science like volcanology. She also discredits the other scientists who went to the crater. They were experienced researchers, capable of deciding the risk to themselves. Bruce portrays them as pawns in Williams ego games. An insult to the memory of the dead by a person with no obvious firsthand knowlege.