Yes!
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>Dear Ms Murphy,
>
>
> Your request may be a spoof? Almost all scientific and
>philosophical explanations turn out to be at least partly incorrect,
>though they seem reasonable in their own time. And some pretty
>bizarre ideas, such as that the Earth goes round the Sun, turn out to
>be reasonable after all.
>
> The concept behind your programmes seems to be in a spirit
>strongly at variance with that of today's historians of science. We
>try to take ideas for what they are in their own time and milieu.
>You seem likely to end up throwing brickbats at people for
>disagreeing with your own ideas about how the Universe works. This
>seems to me to be a rather unpleasant form of self-congratulation.
>And somewhat inappropriate in the present state of the world: there
>are huge numbers of people going hungry or dying of diseases that
>would be preventable or curable if they lived in a richer country.
>The theories may look great but we are not much good at getting them
>to help in the real world.
>
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> J. V. Field
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