Excerpt from Big Dam Foolishness: The Problem of Modern Flood Control and Water Storage
Science, when it can be used in warfare (and this includes a surprising amount of medical knowledge), in manufacture and business, or in spectacular health measures, gets prompt attention. When its benefits are long-range, to be diffused through society by the slow process of education and self-control, the going is not so easy. The scientist can speak his piece and let the public go to hell if it chooses; or he can turn evangelist - an unhappy role for him - and try, as preachers always have, to urge good behavior in the hope of its ultimate reward.
Now and then he gets welcome help from a layman of insight, whose profession does not bar him from the rough and tumble of the forum, or better yet, one whose business it is to enlighten and inform the public. Such a man is Elmer T. Peterson, whose skill in making information palatable without distorting it is evident in the pages that follow.
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