  This letter is in response to a recent review by DeTar and Gottlieb about
lattice QCD that has recently appeared in Physics Today. It also is partially
motivated by a separate review written by DeGrand. My basic point is that one
should be more responsible when presenting numerical results as coming from
{\sl ab initio} calculations. In turn, this leads me to the suggestion that in
lattice field theory one should go back to computational support going directly
to small groups, including groups containing only a single researcher, rather
than concentrating most of the funds into the hands of few large
collaborations.
