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Nature 423, 116 (8 May 2003) | doi:10.1038/423116a

Open Innovation Challenges

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U. Kutschera1

  1. Department of Biology, University of Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Strasse 40, 34109 Kassel, Germany

Your News report1 "Axeing of website article sparks row at Max Planck", describing the removal of several hundred web pages discussing a concept called 'intelligent design' (ID), is welcome.In Germany, efforts to undermine evolution education — mostly in the form of ID, which rejects the theory of natural selection — have evolved into a successful campaign, including a standard textbook in its fifth edition, several journals and two professional video films in which proponents of ID such as the microbiologist Siegfried Scherer and the geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig give interviews in the laboratories of their government-sponsored departments.