Brain-Behavior Relationships

Even though I would not recommend this book to a scientist, layman, or library, the picture is not wholly black. Among the letters included is one from the then Mayor of the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the President of the National Academy of Sciences, enquiring as to whether a "strange orange eyed creature" and a "hairy nine foot monster" were possibly the result of recombinant DNA experiments. It provides a chillingly hilarious reminder of the difficulty and importance of explaining science to laymen who control the levers of power, a lesson we learned from the controversy and which we cannot afford to forget.