The Oracles Are Dumb

How wise are the atomic scientists who think they are entitled to guide society? Not very, proves Mrs. Paterson—out of their own mouths.

On the release of the document known in brief as the “Gray Report,”1 it was front-page news. Editors snatched from 992 large pages of fine print (with no index) the items of pressing interest for the next edition. They did as good a job as could be expected. But the immediate news value was the least interesting element of the Transcript.

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How wise are the atomic scientists who think they are entitled to guide society? Not very, proves Mrs. Paterson—out of their own mouths.

On the release of the document known in brief as the “Gray Report,”1 it was front-page news. Editors snatched from 992 large pages of fine print (with no index) the items of pressing interest for the next edition. They did as good a job as could be expected. But the immediate news value was the least interesting element of the Transcript.