Alan Turing's Suicide in Doubt
That's an extremely horrible story that I previously knew very little about. It was 60 years ago, but it felt a bit mentally violating to read it now (how Turing was treated).<p>It's worth noting that the claims by Copeland are seemingly just as unsupportable as those he's arguing against. For example this:<p>"immediately after his conviction had told a friend: "The day of the trial was by no means disagreeable. Whilst in custody with the other criminals, I had a very agreeable sense of irresponsibility, rather like being back at school."<p>"On the face of it, these are not the expressions of someone ground down by adversity."<p>It's just as plausible that Turing was lying to his friend about his real state of mind. That's an extraordinarily common thing for people to do, and some do it no matter how dire their current circumstances. Copeland doesn't do a very good job of supporting the notion that it wasn't suicide (and it may well have not been).