It's more than hubris when Otto Theodor Benfey [The Scientist, Dec. 10, 1990, page 14] remarks in his Commentary, "After all, it is science that has brought the world materials that now cause environmental pollution and made possible the engines of modern war." It's dead wrong, and it seems to me that a historian above all should know better. It's not science that brought us anything other than knowledge any more than it's guns that kill people. People kill people, people make pollution, people
I write because it is important for us to distinguish between science and technology. Science is the generation and the stewardship of knowledge. It's technology that makes things happen, and that making of things happening involves many responsibilities beyond those of the scientist. It's unfair for the scientist to claim credit for the good or accept blame for the bad. We all must do that.
B.J. LUBEROFF
Editor,
Chemtech
Summitt, N.J.
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