No scientific model is ever complete.
Any science that claims to be "settled" ain't science.
Hey Gang! The name of the rag is "Popular Science." It's all about what's the popular "thing" right now. I wouldn't go there for anything higher than an eighth-grade level of understanding. Which was fine back when I was in the eighth grade....
Any news or information website that does not have comments in this day and age is worthless. If it doesn’t allow comments I don’t even bother reading it.
That's about as ad hominem as you can get.
Does PopSci want to shut Algore's pie hole?
We reserve the right to free speech.
You are free to say anything we agree with.
I’m sure you ignorant, racist, Global Warming deniers understand. :)
“Comments can be bad for science. That’s why, here at PopularScience.com, we’re shutting them off.” That reads almost like satire, but they’re serious about it. :-)
But why limit it to science? Shouldn’t those who believe they have the truth about other topics as well suppress dissent from those who they believe don’t? What a wonderful idea! (Or have we gone down that path before — both civilizations in general and science in particular?)
Maybe I’m imagining this, but doesn’t the history of science — and practically every other field of inquiry — show that the establishment has been wrong time after time, and about all kinds of things?
“Comments can be bad for science”? I feel like I’m watching a Monty Python skit. Yes, comments will include some stupid ones — many stupid ones — but the better ones should have the advantage in the arena of ideas. That’s the foundation on which free societies are based, and much of the progress of the last few centuries. If you can’t defend your ideas, Popular Science, then that’s too bad. Maybe they suck.
So, popsci has decided to go fascist.
Because their AGW position is untenable.
It just proves “there’s no consensus”.
I can’t blame them. It costs money and time to moderate comments by anonymous people who are tasked with spreading disinformation. It’s the state of the culture and what the democrats have fostered for years. Rock throwing and sniping and name-calling has replaced reasoned debate and exchanges of ideas, even in science. The resulting “discussion” just turns into background static and pissing contests off in the weeds. We have posters on FR that feel the need to cyberstalk and attack too but not to the level I have seen on other sites, which is why I come here.
There are legions of social media people who are paid to comment and spread disinformation on various websites 24/7 and it gets tiring reading the same drivel posted by sock puppets that just equates to the talking points coming out of the DNC. The left is ruining the internet.
Scientists can’t create a filter for spambots?
Really?
Apparently Popular Science believes science is a popularity contest (for kids who were unpopular in high school).
Global Warming is a hoax and the evidence is now clearer than ever. Time to shut down debate since they are losing.
“is mistakenly up for grabs again.”
I’m sorry to yell but EVERYTHING IN SCIENCE IS ALWAYS UP FOR GRABS!
Nothing in science is permanent. That’s not how science works.
Even the Law of Gravity is up for grabs if you can disprove it.
Once you decide something can never be disproven it ceases to be science and becomes faith. You believe it is absolutely true and no further discussion is necessary.
This may sound silly but Popular Science has literally turned to the dark side with this decision.
Popular Science:
We are the arbiters of truth.
People who question our positions are naught but trolls.
No unapproved ideas shall be distributed.
Shut off the light of truth.
“lively, intellectual debate” means discussing all the ways in which we are correct.
That’s not called science; It’s called Fascism.