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Anything that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle glorified (Sherlock) is guaranteed to be soft-headed thinking—the man was infamous for it.

You can tell Doyle enjoys lampooning some French military stereotypes but there's also some great adventures along the way.

Sherlock has become a huge influence not just in other creative works, but derivative works such as TV shows and movies that pay no royalty to the Doyle estate.

I think quite famous people have this behavior like Einstein/Violin, Knuth/Organ and even Sherlock Holmes had one which Doyle mentioned helped him get his mind off the case and come back invigorated.

Evolved biological systems appear to be optimized for robustness to perturbations, not efficiency (John Doyle argues that there is in fact a fundamental tradeoff between robustness and efficiency, for all types of complex systems not just biological).

The estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (who died 85 years ago this month) found only partial relief in the extension of the money machine, with stories and characters before 1923 now in the public domain, and stories after 1923 still under copyright 92 years later!

Houdini had a long-standing "feud" with his good friend Doyle, because Doyle would popularize all of these crank theories & practices.

Their continued silence is like the dog that didn't bark in Conan-Doyle's "Silver Blaze"

Conan Doyle credits this directly in the first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet": Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe.

When Joyce published his first novel as a nobody, people like you would've said something equally thoughtless about his grammar, followed up by a glib "the writer is no Arthur Conan Doyle."

Doyle himself was influence by other authors, such as Poe, as well as real people.

Doyle Brunson is one particularly famous person who had his cancer just vanish (this is mentioned in the intro to Super System 2).

Doyle Brunson wrote in his tome Super System from the seventies that he would gladly bet his entire net worth on a 51% chance of success.