From Aidan Duggan
Was the article “Born under a bad sign” trying to make an insightful point about climate change (27 January, p 42)? You pull out the quotation “A winter birth significantly increases the risk of schizophrenia” – but the wheel diagram on the following page has February, March and April highlighted as risk periods for schizophrenia. I know there have been many casualties of climate change, but I don’t think spring will disappear so silently.
The editor writes:
• It’s a fair cop. The quote started out as “late winter” – we had in mind February in the northern hemisphere – but it didn’t fit.
Dublin, Ireland
