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Culture, history and society

This is what physicists think about cancelling wrongdoers from history

27 Mar 2023 Robert P Crease

Robert P Crease reveals what Physics World readers told him about whether we should airbrush out physicists who’ve done bad things in the past – and what he thinks

Struck out Are there now three states for Schrödinger’s cat: alive, dead and cancelled? (Courtesy

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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