From Peter Bateman
East Grinstead, West Sussex
What a sad lad Cranialjax must be, to prefer dry facts to the stories of
those who discover, reveal or conceal, invent or publish them and thereby make
them known. Scientific facts seldom win hearts and minds, yet Cranialjax claims
to study the mind (whatever that is) without presumably relating it to
motivational psychology (what makes Crick tick?), industrial psychology, and
certainly not to clinical psychology, which involve emotions and people.
Encouragement to make and sustain a reputation is a powerful incentive and
reputation management is precisely what science and scientists need more than
ever before.
As Alexander Pope observed, “the proper study of mankind is man” and that
means warts and all—and credit where it’s due.
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