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Is it wholly wrong that married couples unable to conceive children naturally should pay others to perform that service? Mistakenly, Britain is behaving as if there were no doubts.
The openness with which the Soviet Vega project was conducted at the weekend is both a pointer to the nature of Soviet science and a sign of how fruitful collaboration might be extended.
Parascience has so far failed to produce a single repeatable finding and, until it does, will continue to be viewed as an incoherent collection of belief systems steeped in fantasy, illusion and error.