I suppose I should read more than one of the man’s books before dismissing him out of hand, but life is short. There are 100 years worth of back issues of Popular Science on Google Books that I haven’t gotten through yet. It could be awhile before I get around to “Of Mice and Men”.
The latest iteration of Popular Science is even worse than the new Road & Track. Both are run and written by "magazine" people, rather than science and car people.
In fact, those "magazine" people are borderline PC activists, especially at PopSci.
Thankfully, Popular Mechanics has not degraded quite as far.
Road & Track is working hard to be as snarky as Car & Driver. As annoying as David E. Davis' pontification could be, I miss the old R&T. Especially the writing of Peter Egan.
I really miss the old Sports Car Graphic.