Reasoning is beautiful, warm and extraordinary, and I'm not prepared to subscribe to any world view that says it isn't. Writer and RA member Natalie Haynes
David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History, University of York. He is author of Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates (Oxford University Press, 2007) and most recently Galileo: Watcher of the Skies (Yale University Press, 2011)