The Debate Is Over: Popular Science Does Away With Comments

The Gateway Pundit ^ | 9-25-2013 | William Teach

[Lancey Howard]

It went downhill 25+ years ago around the same time that National Geographic did.

That was even before NASA was destroyed by the scumbag lefties.

[Cyber Liberty]

The world’s a speck? That’s a cue for a song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmfAyK6CeIg

[Sequoyah101]

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.

[publius911]

There is a 100% consensus of total agreement with global warming among everyone who matters. The deniers simply aren’t smart enough to know that global warming doesn’t necessarily mean warmer temperatures or more hurricanes. Sometimes it’s warmer, other times colder. Sometimes there are more hurricanes, sometimes less. The very fact that it can’t be predicted proves that global warming is out of control.

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.

[publius911]

Some years back Popular Science's then new editor proudly announced in the magazine how it, meaning they, would immediately become proponents of scientific political “issues”.

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.

[publius911]

It went downhill 25+ years ago around the same time that National Geographic did. I canceled my subscriptions to both after the hard left took them over and they became political propaganda operations masquerading as science.

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.

[DakotaGator]

Your; "Militant advocacy of "scientific political issues" and actual science is an oxymoron."

Well said!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“Science progresses funeral by funeral.”
- - Max Planck

“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

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Just a few hundred years ago, most scientists of the day refused to consider the notion that the earth might be round instead of flat.

"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

[SunkenCiv]

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.