CLINICAL NEUROMYTHOLOGY AND OTHER ARGUMENTS AND ESSAYS PERTINENT AND IMPERTINENT.

By W. M. Landau . 1998. Armonk, NY: Futura Publishing Company. Price $70. ISBN 0-879-93-6983. European neurologists attending meetings in the USA are often struck by the fulsome tributes which follow in the discussion of what seems a very ordinary paper as though it were somehow improper to voice any criticism of the speaker in public. I have never to my knowledge attended a meeting with Dr Landau, but things must be very different when he is around. There seems to be no limit to his capacity for disagreement and his thirst for conflict as he prepares, like some latter-day Don Quixote, to …