Posted on 12/01/2023 1:22:30 PM PST by Red Badger
Yes, I once had a subscription to Scientific American (and also Science News).
As a scientist (a real one) I have observed that the SA has wholly abandoned the scientific method, and is no more "scientific" than the Daily Worker or the National Enquirer.
I will always remember this from that magazine...
POPULAR SCIENCE, Feb 1980..
PS/What’s News ....
page 73
Changing the weather intentionally or otherwise weather modification..(Earth cooling vs Greenhouse effect)
“Do you suppose we can learn enough, soon enough, to pull off a balancing act with the CO2 blanket saving us from another ice age?”
It was a fun read for a kid back in the 60’s and early 70’s…a magazine that you, your dad and your uncle would all read. I’m sure it all became propaganda, like everything in the new perverse America. That and the end of print magazines generally undoubtedly did it in. But 50 years ago, it was rather fun and informative.
Dang. I was waiting for the story to come out, “Build your own AI sex robot”.
Popular Science and Radio Shack,two more parts of my youth gone...
Me too. Climate change, climate change, climate change. Same for Nat Geo.
I stopped reading Popular Science and Scientific American way back when they went woke. I travel for a living, and used to read SciAm religiously on the plane. I clearly remember the very last time I read SciAm. They had an article comparing and contrasting President Bush, Versus Al Gore on climate change. They magazine repeatedly referred to President Bush simply as “Bush”, yet repeatedly referred to Al Gore using the honorific “Senator”. I could see the bias on the walls and never went back.
I stopped reading it during the Reagan years. They had article after article “proving” that deployment of Pershing missiles in Europe would start WWIII. The missiles got deployed if WWIII started I must have slept through it. I didn’t renew my subscription. A subscription that I had had since I was 13. Something my Dad got me for my 13th birthday. I occasionally borrowed the magazine and read it to see if had returned to it previous format. It didn’t so eventually I never bother with even reading it occasionally.
There are still a few radio shacks. There’s one about 30 miles from us.
Popular science was cool before they went liberal.
My late father had some longterm subscription that continued for years after he passed. I'd enjoyed the magazine since I'd been able to read, until the nitwit editor of the time devoted an entire issue to the grifter Al Gore and the global warming hoax. I let my mother know that she need not renew the subscription when it came up. Their circulation numbers were always well behind rival Popular Mechanics, and print has been in a long downward spiral, but I regard this in part as suicide.
For reasons I don’t recall, I never really liked Popular Science.
A significant amount of “science”, particularly medical “science” although no discipline has been spared, has devolved into political “science”.
yup, the big three
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They are WOKE too..............
I had subs to both!...............
High Times?......................
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