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Letter: Letter

Published 2 October 1999

From David Neil

Has no one ever pointed out to John Horgan that the inability to understand
something now in no way precludes the possibility of understanding later? The
notion that we have to embrace the opinionated nonsense of Freud because our
current understanding of the mind is sketchy is indeed the classic justification
for all pseudoscience, and one which should not be given the endorsement which
your presentation gives it.

Macclesfield, Cheshire

Issue no. 2206 published 2 October 1999

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