The newspaper ran an article headlined "Race Claims Spark Fury Over Croatia's School Curriculum" saying that Croatian scientists are reportedly furious over what the paper says are the Science Minister's attempts to encourage scientists to promote a position that Croatians are not so genetically close to other Slav peoples such as Serbs.
The Croatian section of Voice of America on Thursday carried the article from 'Nature'.
On Thursday afternoon, the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education issued a press release saying that Minister Primorac strongly reacted to the article describing it as a text full of untruths and delusions, based on sensationalist headlines and misinterpretations from the Croatian press.