The Real Secrets of Science

Some 55,000 people in the federal government now earn at least part of their pay by practicing intellectual birth control as they stamp “confidential” on stacks of documents. And 3,000 superior civil servants are active abortionists of ideas, stamping “top secret” on papers they so designate.

These figures come from Congressman William S. Moorhead (D–Pa.) , who has introduced a bill to make some sense out of the way federal employees make secret mountains out ...