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Nature 443, 890-891 (26 October 2006) | doi:10.1038/443890c; Published online 25 October 2006

Polish scientists fight creationism

Almut Graebsch

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Deputy education minister calls evolution a 'lie'.

Fifty leading scientists in Poland have signed an open letter in protest against an aggressive anti-evolution campaign launched by the League of Polish Families (LPR), the ultra-right-wing coalition partner in the conservative Polish government."The theory of evolution is a lie," Mirosl strokeaw Orzechowski, Poland's deputy education minister, told the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza on 14 October.