"Avoiding heated discussions seems to have been an explicit policy rather than an inadvertent omission. In 1950, for example, the ‘News and Views’ column informed readers that a recent article by Julian Huxley on Soviet genetics ‘could clearly not be allowed to become the subject of debate in the correspondence columns of this journal’—a sentiment that would have seemed very odd to anyone who remembered Nature under Lockyer or Gregory."

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0029