On Obama-McCain Cover, Nature Magazine Says "Whoops"


	On Obama-McCain Cover, Nature Magazine Says "Whoops"

Matthew Herper

9-26-2008 2:32 PM

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Matthew Herper says:

The Times of London has this fantastic find: Nature compared McCain and Obama on its cover, only to run a problematic ad on the back cover of the scientific journal.

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