Obviously not a great television viewer, he also performed the minor miracle of altogether missing The X Files, although he approved of setting the sceptical Agent Scully against the paranormal proselytiser Mulder.From 'Unweaving the Rainbow' in 1998 (page 28):
"But isn't it just a harmless fiction then? No, I think the defence rings hollow. Imagine a television series in which two police officers solve a crime each week. Every week there is one black suspect and one white suspect. One of the two detectives is always biased towards the black suspect, the other biased towards the white. And, week after week, the black suspect turns out to have done it. So, what's wrong with that? After all it's only fiction. Shocking as it is, I believe the analogy to be a completely fair one. I am not saying that supernaturalist propaganda is as dangerous or as unpleasant as racist propaganda. But the X-Files systematically portrays an anti-rational view of the world, which by virtue of its recurrent persistence is insidious.
Don't tell me that the old boy is mellowing!
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