It is probably fair to say that, through the medium of his newsletter, Science and Government Report, Mr. Greenberg pretty well invented a new way to cover big science—as a form of government spending no different, in budgetary terms, from defense procurement or agricultural support.While at Science, Greenberg created the mythical character Dr. Grant Swinger, Director of the Center for the Absorption of Federal Funds.
In his nine years on the magazine, he wrote and directed numerous exclusives on the science beat" (The Washington Post, November 29, 1970, "Scientists Split by Seaborg Candidacy").
Greenberg's The Politics of Pure Science published in 1968[7][8] evoked strong reactions, pro and con, in the popular and scientific press.
"He described the author as "an informed and reflective newsman of the first rank, capable of combining lively journalism with careful scholarship.
Frank T. McClure, Director of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, wrote in Science that the book "might best be described as a historical novel, written in the reportorial style, with titillating tidbits liberally dispersed among important facts [...]""The author," McClure added, "uses the term 'machinations' repeatedly to describe the successful advocacy of presumably worthy causes...