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Nature 416, 785 (25 April 2002) | doi:10.1038/416785b

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Cancer centre didn't shoot the messenger

Lee Hartwell1

  1. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, Washington 98109-1024, USA

In your Opinion article "Media studies for scientists" (Nature 416, 461; 2002), you imply that scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center failed to provide information to The Seattle Times and then cried "bad journalism". You advise that "Rather than shooting the messengers, scientists should take them to one side and give them the real story".