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Nature 448, 22 (5 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448022c; Published online 4 July 2007

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    • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

  • Gastroenterologist

    • Wayne State University
    • Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Terrorists are activists who renounce non-violence

Sarah Reichard1, Thomas M. Hinckley1 & H. D. Bradshaw, Jr2

  1. College of Forest Resources, University of Washington
  2. Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA

As faculty members whose research was affected severely by a 2001 firebomb attack by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), we object to the assertion in your Editorial 'Unwise branding' (Nature 447, 353; doi:10.1038/447353a 2007) that charging ELF arsonists with terrorism could amount to erecting an "unbreachable wall" to dialogue between them and scientists.