Subscribe now

Letter: Time to launch the fight back against unreason

Published 7 October 2020

From John Hastings, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, UK

After reading Graham Lawton’s worrying column about QAnon conspiracy theories, I suggest we adopt a “reality slogan” to fight back (19 September, p 24). In highlighting the inescapable fact of the laws of nature, physicist Richard Feynman came up with a good one in his report on the Challenger space shuttle disaster: “Nature cannot be fooled.”

Issue no. 3303 published 10 October 2020

Sign up to our weekly newsletter

Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox. We'll also keep you up to date with New Scientist events and special offers.

Sign up
Piano Exit Overlay Banner Mobile Piano Exit Overlay Banner Desktop