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But it would be more embarrassing to lose to a boy, clucked the scoffers.

Burnet’s argument was met with widespread horror; as Herbert Croft, the bishop of Hereford, put it, ‘This way of philosophizing all from natural causes, I fear, will make the whole world turn scoffers.’

On a day like Tuesday, when many of us in Washington may have taken comfort in the uncommon warmth, scoffers might have assured us that it was much warmer on the same date in 1964.

Meanwhile, scoffers believe she had mental health problems.

Regardless of the validity of the Rhoda Wise narrative - scoffers note that she was known to have mental health problems - people still arrive by the busload.