YMMV / Arthur Conan Doyle

• Fair for Its Day: Several of the Sherlock Holmes stories (on issues of sexism and inter-racial relationships), and especially the short story ''The Man With the Watches'' (which, despite ending in tragedy as usual, not only features fairly sympathetic gay characters, but has the homophobic narrator realize the error of his ways in the end, at least a little).
• Science Marches On: The Horror Of The Heights is a gripping horror tale, but many decades of human flight have shown that no, there are no Living Gasbags floating around in the upper atmosphere.