Global hoaxing is the reason I stopped buying SciAm in 2000. I travel for a living, and at one time I would never get on a plane without one. During the 2004 election of bush versus kerry I broke down and bought one. Of course there was an environmental article comparing how awesome and great kerry would be versus the gross bubbling vines hanging off the dead trees that bush would bring. That wasnt what really bugged me as I am pretty impervious to the usual propaganda, what annoyed me was that in a lengthy article, they referenced bush and kerry by name probably 30 times, each and every time kerry was referenced his title “senator” always preceded, not once did (president) bush’s title precede his name, so a sentence would sound like “Senator Kerry’s plan (butterflies and bambi, and small furry animals blah blah), while Bush (burning sulphur, kicking puppies, miles and miles of dead sea otters blah blah). That was 2004 and the very last time I picked up a sciAm