tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649264476699871612.post8357813527711241160..comments2023-10-25T04:54:37.147-07:00Comments on Just Right: Scientific American on the "science of guns"JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10884491329536733335noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649264476699871612.post-6480999857206423502018-09-09T00:01:18.844-07:002018-09-09T00:01:18.844-07:00I have sadly decided to stop my subscription to Sc...I have sadly decided to stop my subscription to Sciam. I have been a subscriber for more than 30 years. I just can't take the liberal bias anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649264476699871612.post-70978449694792090922013-06-01T15:27:21.888-07:002013-06-01T15:27:21.888-07:00JR:
The Scientific American articles are flatly w...JR:<br /><br />The Scientific American articles are flatly wrong. I did a little research on this left-leaning story and found the authors are all wet. Take a look for yourself.<br /><br /><a href="http://gigagod.blogspot.com/2013/05/un-scientific-americans-guns-and-crime.html" rel="nofollow">http://gigagod.blogspot.com/2013/05/un-scientific-americans-guns-and-crime.html</a>karadimoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00544414814835244884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649264476699871612.post-81932090449939877192013-05-13T11:20:00.621-07:002013-05-13T11:20:00.621-07:00And the recent shooting in New Orleans proved that...And the recent shooting in New Orleans proved that police are not enough. With police IN the crowd being shot at, the shooters were not stopped, and in fact are still at large.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649264476699871612.post-19242761013442571532013-05-13T04:23:41.600-07:002013-05-13T04:23:41.600-07:00As soon as I saw the author of the article was Sh...As soon as I saw the author of the article was Shermer I mentally placed it in the garbage pile.<br /><br />The last article I read by this guy was one where he said that it was "certain" that intelligent extraterrestrial life would be discovered withing 20 years because of Moore's law of computational power increase.<br /><br />As soon as I read that paragraph he lost me. This guy is no demander of the truth. He's just another damned journalist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649264476699871612.post-37635766514526156992013-05-12T16:56:04.736-07:002013-05-12T16:56:04.736-07:00Carlos,
Your comments are much appreciated. Thank...Carlos,<br /><br />Your comments are much appreciated. Thanks. <br /><br />I started reading SA regularly in the late sixties and subscribed through the seventies, reading it mostly for the math, physics and astronomy though I did enjoy reading the softer sciences like anthropology and sociology as well. I probably didn't notice the emergence of political bias at first because of my own left/lib tilt. That came later, after losing some of my naïveté and gaining an appreciation of conservatism.<br /><br />Regards,<br />JRJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10884491329536733335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649264476699871612.post-35397288040850245552013-05-12T13:01:28.169-07:002013-05-12T13:01:28.169-07:00Thank you for sharing your impressions with your r...Thank you for sharing your impressions with your readers. I, too, became disillusioned with what had been one of the best general science journals published in English, though my disillusionment probably happened quite a bit before yours, as you seem to be quite a bit younger than I am. <br /><br />I'm old enough to remember when _Scientific American_ was an apolitical general science journal aimed at the intelligent, scientifically literate layman who wished to keep abreast of advances in various scientific fields in which he had no professional-level expertise. Typical readers were physicians, dentists, architects, science teachers, and engineers. (One would often encounter older issues, which had obviously been recycled to the waiting room from a personal subscription, in doctors' and dentists' offices.)<br /><br /> That was then. Sometime in the 1970s, it turned into an opinion journal masquerading as a science journal. Quite apart from the politicization of the publication, the intellectual quality of the articles declined after the early 1970s; whereas before the presumption about the reader had been that he had a good general grounding in science and a high level of literacy, the "new" _Scientific American_ was pitched at the middlebrow reader, becoming something like _National Geographic_. The transformation was sad to see, for those of us who had known the magazine at its best.<br /><br />Best regards,<br />Carlos PereraCarlos Pererahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00253355647824872032noreply@blogger.com