In his own lucid and colorful style Binger stresses the urgent necessity for the dissemination of medical education to the lay public in more intelligible and more authentic fashion. The medical writer in this country, with a few notable exceptions, has been either diffident or awkward in writing in the language of the people. Public interest in medicine and particularly in psychiatry has therefore been met largely by those professional journalists and script writers whose slogan is melodrama rather than accuracy. Binger contrasts our unhappy situation in this respect with that of England, where outstanding scientists have apparently met this problem far more adequately. He closes his excellent paper on the somber note that there is little time left in which to raise the level of maturity to the point at which man may behave in more rational fashion.