Sir - Edward Sanderson in his condemnation of Richard Dawkins (Letters, December 1), is, I'm sorry to say, like so many writers to The Oxford Times (including myself, no doubt, at times) guilty of false logic.

He says that it would be "utterly pointless" to write a book trying to disprove the existence of fairies. He might feel so moved if he knew that hundreds of millions of people did believe in fairies.

Dan Short, Stonesfield