From M. Hammerton
Max.Hammerton@newcastle. ac.uk
In your editorial (13 September, p 3),
you suggest that, “Deep down they
[scientists] believe the public is ignorant and irrational”. And how right they
are! But if, as you further suggest, they believe that, given a little more
media exposure “the public would soon warm to our cause”, they are deluded
indeed.
It would be as well to heed the observation of the scholar and poet A. E.
Housman, that science is “an aristocratic affair, not communicable to all men,
nor to most men”.
