IN REPLY to Richard House (SNJ Letters, July 15).

It was nice to read the once fashionable post-modernist view of science trotted out again.

For those who found it perhaps a little too wordy I will summarise – the choice is between science and making stuff up.

Science is hard and you will often get things wrong.

Why bother when you can make stuff up and never be wrong?

You don’t like the evidence?

Just call it another paradigm.

I’m off now to feed my gnome.

Jim Watson

Selsley