This author was a post WW2 nuclear physicist that started out with the Manhattan Project. He became concerned about the blind reverence that the public and politicians had developed for scientists and warns us in this 1965 book that scientists had become an un-elected powerful elite with great influence on government. This issue is even more relevant today now that politicians routinely use authoritative appeals to "science" to shut down debate and routinely misconstrue scientific information to justify policy. ( )