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Letter: Letters : . . .

Published 15 February 1997

From Barry Croft

Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Beards are of course the natural state—one doesn’t have to do anything
special and they just happen. On the other hand, scraping the hair off your face
every day with a sharp instrument is very unnatural—downright weird in
fact. And being highly logical folk, scientists tend to reject the illogical
social pressure to shave.

Issue no. 2069 published 15 February 1997

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