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Editorial

Nature Immunology 9, 693 (1 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/ni0708-693b

Science in an open society

It is by now a truism that science and religion can be anathema to one another, with the familiar refrain that religious ideology and its adherence to strict interpretation of divine texts can usurp the very possibility of scientific progress. It would be pointless to argue that this conjecture has not been true of many societies and cultures throughout world history.