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Nature 436, 912 (18 August 2005) | doi:10.1038/436912a; Published online 17 August 2005

Buddhism is no bar to an open mind. Is science?

Janis L. Dickinson1

  1. Hastings Natural History Reservation, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 38601 Carmel Valley Road, Carmel Valley, California 93924, USA

I was appalled to learn, through your News story "Neuroscientists see red over Dalai Lama" (Nature 436, 452; 2005), of a petition by a group of neuroscientists to cancel a lecture by the Dalai Lama scheduled for the November meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.What are the motives behind this petition?

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