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Edward Bernays directed public relations of the fair in 1939, which he called ' democricity '.

Grover Whalen, a public relations innovator, saw the Fair as an opportunity for corporations to present consumer products, rather than as an exercise in presenting science and the scientific way of thinking in its own right, as Harold Urey, Albert Einstein and other scientists wished to see the project.

" As events transpired ," reported Carl Sagan, whose own interest in science was nevertheless sparked by the Fair's gadgetry, " almost no real science was tacked on to the Fair's exhibits, despite the scientists ' protests and their appeals to high principles.