“Crummy science is what Scientific American is all about these days...”
it is. It’s horrible. Often it’s pseudoscience. And of course it’s filled with propaganda disguised as science.
This shark article is probably better than most of their crap.
...“Crummy science is what Scientific American is all about these days...”
When I started reading Sci. Amer. it required graduate level understanding in the field to fully understand an article, it has been gradually dumbed down to high school level, and worse, politically polluted to unreadable.