In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> Dear Iain, If you are going to be provocative, you have to expect people to be provoked! The aim of running a column like yours is to stir up interest, and the letter you quote is exactly the type that I would have printed if I was the editor. Accuracy is not generally a valued feature of tabloid journalism. The more you write, the more letters like that will get printed, often with misquotes, often on other journals. The trick is to ignore them. Andrew -------------------------------------------------- Dr. Andrew N. Herd MRCGP General Practitioner & Journalist Medical Adviser to County Durham Health Commission [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%