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Nature 444, 265 (16 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/444265b; Published online 15 November 2006

Open Innovation Challenges

Criticism: what to do about science's bad public image?

Boris Striepen1

  1. Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, Paul D. Coverdell Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA

Although you are right to state in your News Feature "In the name of nature" (Nature 443, 498–501; 2006) that environmental activists such as those who fire-bombed a research facility in Olympia, Washington, are misguided, I found your focus on personal flaws and oddities to fall short. Yes, there are many vegan weirdos out there, but some of them are hard-core genetic engineers working in my laboratory.