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An article in this week's issue describes observations for which there is no present physical basis. There are good and particular reasons why prudent people should, for the time being, suspend judgement.
Now under way is the third formal investigation within two years of a paper from the Whitehead Institute. In the fever of investigationy scientific reputations may be damaged.
The Marshall Institute advocates that the United States should deploy space-based missile interceptors in the near future. At best such weapons would not be cost effective, at worst they would be useless.
