Talk:Arthur Conan Doyle

Making allowances
As with other late-19th century proponents of 'spiritualism etc' some allowance should be made for then current cutting edge scientific/technological research (exploring the spectrum beyond the visible etc) and extrapolations therefrom - before 'the impossible has been eliminated.' Consider some of the claims made about 'the internet' and cold fusion. Anna Livia (talk) 11:19, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * True, I for one always have been of the position that when talking about people of the past, proper context of the time period they lived in needs to be considered. — Dr. Ox   quack specialist  12:05, 13 May 2019 (UTC)