ABSTRACT
Science and secrecy were not, and are not, the polar opposites of common understanding. Timothy Ferris, a regular New Yorker science writer, declared that
real science is a white hole that gushes information; scientists (astronomers especially) prefer to tell one another almost everything, because if they don’t they can’t build on each other’s results. (The gravest concern of those who do classified work is that if they are cut off from such constant exchange their careers will wither).2
