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Letter: Letters: Establishment view

Published 26 February 1994

From DR BILLIN

The article ‘Holy row over Christian physics and maths’ (This Week,
29 January) confirms something which I have feared for some time: that modern
scientists are persecuting what to them is unorthodox belief just as vigorously
as the Church did in the middle ages. Surely the scientific method depends
on an objective outlook, open to the unexpected? How can good science survive
in such an atmosphere?

What a terrible thing it is to find that one is no longer an outsider,
but has become the establishment.

D. R. Billin Carshalton, Surrey

Issue no. 1914 published 26 February 1994

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