The judge asked Carroll, "You have a reason for believing all this?"
"I know why. The alien culture wants to conquer the universe. Because we are very close to them in scientific achievement they have cause to fear us.
"The Lawson Radiation is the spilled energy from their interstellar ships and possession of this secret will permit Terra—or any other system—to fight them on their own terms, even to beat them back to their own system. Therefore they are suppressing all research by clever misdirection."
"I see. You seem to have an answer to every angle," mused the judge.
"The trouble is," said Carroll, "that people insist upon judging me in accordance with their own views—which means that they have an answer to my every objection."
"In other words," smiled the judge, "the world is wrong and you are right?"
"Precisely."
"You know what is said about such people?"
Carroll smiled. "They said the same thing about Galileo, Columbus, the Wright brothers, Bell, Edison and Marconi," he said.
"It is often hard to tell," said the judge. "However, there are some good ways."