From PETER WEBSTER
It was encouraging to see some long overdue criticism of current models
of the Universe (Comment, 4 June). It seems that astrophysicists can get
away with practically anything in their quest to explain the ultimate structure
of reality, while scientists dealing with closer-to-home subjects may suffer
the wrath of all for advancing an unusual hypothesis. Why should the ‘audacious
hypothesis’ of dark matter be an overnight success, while the theory of
morphogenetic fields be widely denounced as naive mysticism?
Peter Webster Cannes, France
