:::::::I concur. 'sceptics believe' indeed sounds like an oxymoron to anyone with an ear for English prose style, and your point's well-taken. As you make clear, there is a deep problem here in the practice of making a movement of collective opinion what are in fact many highly individual, or sectarian theories. I suggested before, and on the tails of Paul's comment here, suggest again, that, outside the lead certainly, all specific opinions from the fringe school be referred intext to their authors. The problem with the lead is that it is being written as though we were discussing deVere. Baconians and cipher fiends of various descriptions, who must be covered, do not generally engage in these historical polemic. The lead must reflect the whole world of dissent, and not the specific ideological positions of the de Verean cohort.