Andrew Birch replies:
Far from trivializing genocide, the object of my cartoon was to ridicule the revisionists and the French National Front, and I feel that in that context the pun was justified. Just because a subject is of the utmost seriousness surely does not mean that one cannot use humour to make a political point. I obviously regret giving offence to Michael Vicker, but I hope the revisionists were more offended.
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Birch, A. No laughing matter. Nature 393, 301 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/30590-c1
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