A letter and a reply about Dyson's most recent review.

When I wrote my review, I knew that my concluding judgment would arouse strong opposition. My purpose in writing was to give readers something to disagree with.

Recall:

According to one who was present, Churchill suddenly blurted out: "Are we animals? Are we taking this too far?"

And:

I was describing this to a friend over lunch in Palo Alto. As I was describing this the waiter came up behind me to take our order. I was in the middle of saying "it's very hard to enter the rectum, but once you do things move much faster", only to hear the waiter gasp. ... Some people are just not interested in natural history, I guess.

Von Braun's Bargain