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Nature 444, 679-680 (7 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/444679e; Published online 6 December 2006
Pseudoscience should not be published in Nature
Uwe Balthasar1 & Susannah Maidment1
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK
Although we acknowledge the need to allow publication of diverse opinions in the name of free speech, Nature has a responsibility, as a leading and widely read science journal, to uphold scientific standards and values. Unfortunately, in Maciej Giertych's Correspondence letter ("Creationism, evolution: nothing has been proved" Nature 444, 265; 2006), Nature fell short in this duty, allowing creationist pseudoscientific arguments to be presented as fact, without any supporting evidence.
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