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Reflecting on our past

During Science News’ early history, in the 1920s through ’60s, we shared and endorsed ideas that were unscientific, racist, sexist and morally wrong. In “The darkness in our past” (SN: 3/26/22, p. 26), the Science News reckoning team and senior staff apologized for these past prejudices and vowed to hold ourselves accountable moving forward.