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Come on, 'fess up: you only run implausible stories such as "Academics suffer more stress than A&E staff", (February 17) to give Laurie Taylor an easy time with his column the following week, don't you? It more or less writes itself: "Scalpel, Maureen." "Scalpel, Professor Lapping."

Paul Temple Institute of EducationUniversity of London