I was amazed to read the story 'Divine diseases' in your Futures science-fiction section (Nature 462, 1088; 2009). I am not a Catholic and I do not believe in transubstantiation, but this gratuitously offensive junk has no place in a serious scientific journal.
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Alexander, D. Science friction as fantasy irritates religious sensibilities. Nature 463, 425 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463425d
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