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...that, as the field is strongest near the poles and weakest at the Equator, so is the cosmic ray bombardment strong or weak with changing latitude. Later a longitude differential was found. Last week, with intensity figures for electroscopes carried on nine ships sailing the seven seas. Robert Andrews Millikan, Caltech's cosmic ray luminary, told the academicians that the rays are stronger in India and the Eastern Hemisphere generally than in the Western, interpreted this to mean that Earth, as a magnet, is lopsided...
...Stetson explained that there are two conflicting theories, Arthur Compton, of the University of Chicago, believing that cosmic rays are chiefly made up of electrons, and Millikan believing that they are chiefly made up of photons, bundles of light energy...
...This situation," Dr. Millikan said at the Pittsburgh meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (TIME, Jan. 7), "is not improved by the existence of the daily newspaper, which ... is under a greater pressure to find for its pages something that is new rather than something that is true. I venture the prediction that our present age, because of its craze for the new regardless of the true, will be looked back upon by our children's children with . . . amazement and ridicule." Dr. Millikan added that when nine-tenths of the workers in a field agree...
Next day the capacious New York Times, which probably carries more science news than any other U. S. daily, printed Dr. Millikan's remarks without comment. Last week, however, the Times got around to retorting to Dr. Millikan in a 600-word editorial. Points...
...common criticism that newspapers print too much scandal, crime & sport sets in a strange light the Millikan criticism of news of educational interest...