Posted on 09/25/2013 2:09:52 PM PDT by servo1969
This flows in perfectly with the Warmist notion that debate is great, and they’re willing to debate anyone anytime anywhere, but when challenged disappear and refuse.
Why We’re Shutting Off Our Comments
Comments can be bad for science. That’s why, here at PopularScience.com, we’re shutting them off.
It wasn’t a decision we made lightly. As the news arm of a 141-year-old science and technology magazine, we are as committed to fostering lively, intellectual debate as we are to spreading the word of science far and wide. The problem is when trolls and spambots overwhelm the former, diminishing our ability to do the latter.
I guess they haven’t heard of using methods like Bad Behavior, Akismet, Disqus, and others systems. They aren’t perfect, but certainly cut down quite a bit.
A politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics. Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again. Scientific certainty is just another thing for two people to “debate” on television. And because comments sections tend to be a grotesque reflection of the media culture surrounding them, the cynical work of undermining bedrock scientific doctrine is now being done beneath our own stories, within a website devoted to championing science.
Science like this, where the 1930′s data was changed to be cooler?
The article cited is a NY Times whine-fest about people not buying into “climate change”, ie, people who use lots of fossil fuels and air conditioning blaming Other People for Bad Weather caused by using fossil fuels and air conditioning. Seriously, who would want to discuss the reality of the science of “climate change” when we find out the Himalayan glacier report in the 2007 IPCC AR4 was based on a speculative comment in an email?
(Vox Popoli) Comments aren’t bad for science. Comments are bad for those who are stubbornly clinging to outdated scientific paradigms that are showing obvious cracks.
There are many Warmist websites I’m blocked from commenting at. Same with other Climate Realists like Steven Goddard, Tom Nelson, Anthony Watts, etc. Because Warmists do not want debate: they want people to sit down, shut up, and smile as Government becomes more intrusive and controlling. All based on a lie and junk science.
That was even before NASA was destroyed by the scumbag lefties.
Pop Sci turned into a liberal rag years ago. I read and enjoyed it for the first two or three decades of my life but thought Pop Mech had better plans and projects.
I gave up on both at least 20 years ago.
The vintage issues are the best.
That sounds like the statement from a delusional sociopath. Certainly not anyone versed in any science I know.
That last sentence sounds like something Al Gore or James Hansen would say. Not anywhere on my list of notable scientists of 20th Century.
I am surprised it is still a viable publication.
I did not keep track, but I stopped reading Popular Science about the same time, probably for the same reason in the same issue.
Militant advocacy of "scientific political issues" and actual science is an oxymoron.
I just realized, since it was a long time ago that I cancelled my subscription. We should add the former "Scientific American" to the suicidal formerly respected publications.
Well said!
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
- - Max Planck
"1,500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was flat. And 15 minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
- - Agent K from Men In Black
A few years ago under the previous editor in chief, PopSci devoted an entire issue to Al Gore and the Demagogic Party. The ever-shrinking magazine has switched editors, but too little, too late.
Thanks servo1969.
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