"Knowledge for Man's Sake".

The author reflects on the science-versus-press controversy. He asserts that the problem stems from wrong attitudes on both sides where two major cultural defects appear. The defect on the part of the press comes from the tendency to regard as news only that information which the largest number of people will most readily buy rather than considering the important information of a fresh kind irrespective of its sales appeal. On the part of the scientists, they make the new findings and they alone know and understand them and they ought to be best able to comment on them. The problem is communication. The scientists should make the public understand what their findings mean.