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Letter: Letter

Published 6 June 1998

From Gwil Owen, University of Cambridge

In your article on “dental danger” you say: “A plastic used by some dentists
to provide a protective coating over their patients’ teeth can disturb the
sexual development of unborn mice.”

Unless there are some very weird people out there, this must be a quantum
effect.

Cambridge

Issue no. 2137 published 6 June 1998

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