ABSTRACT
Mellanby, Kenneth . . . the corridors of power have a strong attraction for even the most devoted investigator, and these corridors seldom lead back to the laboratory.
Wiener, Norbert There are many administrators of science and a large component of the general population who believe that mass attacks can do anything, and even that ideas are obsolete. Behind this drive to the mass attack there are a number of strong psychological motives. Neither the public nor the big administrator has too good an understanding of the inner continuity of science, but they have both seen its world-shaking consequences, and they are afraid of it. Both of them wish to decerebrate the scientist, as the Byzantine State emasculated its civil servants. Moreover the great administrator who is not sure of his own intellectual level can aggrandise himself only by cutting his scientific employees down to size.
