Readers respond to nature’s editorial on historical monuments

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This week, _Nature_ published an Editorial on historical injustice in science and how it is marked and remembered. Many readers criticized

its wording, position and tone. _Nature_ has issued an apology and correction. Here we publish a selection of the responses we received on the issue of statues and memorialization. All are

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