Friday, May 09, 2008

A sad decline ...

... In praise of prejudice or, Scientific American gets softening of the brain. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Scientific American is indeed no longer the quality publication it used to be.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous8:59 AM

    Maybe it's not as good as it was, but SciAm is still a *very* good publication. We've been getting it for over twenty years and it still has the cutting-edge scientific research pieces edited into language humanities people like me can read. If it has the occasional article like the one you mention, so be it. Almost all magazines, except perhaps the ones Roger Kimball and other uber-conservatives write for, are tainted by political correctness.

    I don't believe everything I read -- not even in science magazines -- but I like to see new studies and to think about them. I wouldn't diss SciAm unless you'd rather *everyone* read People magazine.

    By the way, Steve Mirsky's "Anti-Gravity" column is worth the whole magazine every month. And he is anything but p.c.

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