Astounding Science Fiction, August 1955 (British Edition) — page 84: what you’re looking at

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82 ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION tunic added. “I don’t want my psychotests reviewed by some duty-struck bigot who can’t be reasoned with, and neither do you.” “l’m getting something organ- ized to counter that,” Salgath Trod said. “Vm going to attack the whole scientific basis of psy- chotesting. There’s Dr. Frasthor Klav; he’s always contended that what arecalled criminal tendencies are the result of the individual’s total environment, and that psy- chotesting and personality-analysis are valueless, because the total environment changes from day to day, even from hour to hour—” ‘“That won’t do,”’ the nameless young man who was the messenger of somebody equally nameless retorted. “‘Frasthor’s a crackpot; no reputable psychologist or psy- chist gives his opinions a moment’s consideration. And besides, we don’t want to attack Psychological Hygiene. The people in it with whom we can do business are our safeguard ; they’ve given all of usa clean bill of mental health, and we have papers to prove it. What we have to do is to make it appear that that incident on the Esaron Sector is all there is to this, and also involve the Paratime Police themselves. The slavers are all para-cops. It isn’t the fault of BuPsychHyg, because the Paratime Police have their own psycho- testing staff. That’s where the trouble is; the para cops haven't been adequately testing their own personnel.” *“Now how are you going to do that?’ Salgath Trod asked dis- dainfully. ‘“You’ll take the floor, the first thing tomorrow, and utilize these new revelations about the Wizard Traders. You'll accuse the Para- time Police of being the Wizard com»lcboooks.con