[PatrickHenry]

This seems a few days late, but it just now appeared at their website. Everyone be nice.

[Youngblood]

That is hilarious! Marvellous stuff!

[narby]

If the government commits blindly to building an anti-ICBM defense system that can't work as promised, that will waste tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars and imperil national security, you won't hear about it from us.

This is exactly the thing that gives ammunition to the creationists. The ABM system is not only workable, it's already done it's job without even being in existence. The mere threat of ABM pushed the USSR over the brink of bankruptcy. It didn't matter if it really could have defended us against a full attack from the USSR, it was workable merely because the Russians believed it might have been.

The fact that SA is so politically blinded that it doesn't see this even in retrospect, is the evidence creationists use to accuse them of blindness in scientific matters like evolution.

The blind allegiance to environmental radicalism by SA and other mainstream scientific outlets also discredits them.

It's a sad day for real science, when they're daily attacked from the outside, and shooting themselves in the foot at the same time.

[stevio]

Frankly, I can't see how a scientist cannot believe in God.

[Tribune7]

They said we should be more balanced in our presentation of such issues as creationism, missile defense and global warming.

Hope they don't cut out the missile defense and global warming articles. WE MUST BE WARNED!!

[Junior]

The scary thing is, we're likely to see DI or AIG latch onto this as if it were the real thing. Remember how all those Christian sites went nuts over the Onion piece on Harry Potter?

[balrog666]

One last laugh before you go ...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

If the government commits blindly to building an anti-ICBM defense system that can't work as promised, that will waste tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars and imperil national security, you won't hear about it from us. If studies suggest that the administration's antipollution measures would actually increase the dangerous particulates that people breathe during the next two decades, that's not our concern.

This is the part that's idiotic and why I don't subscribe to this left-wing rag any more.

[VadeRetro]

Indeed, if politicians or special-interest groups say things that seem untrue or misleading, our duty as journalists is to quote them without comment or contradiction.

Yes. It's time we stopped making ad hominem attacks on creationists by pointing out that what they say is false and/or stupid. We should let them control the science curriculum, not because they know any science (they don't), but because it's their turn! Yes!

[Southack]

"If the government commits blindly to building an anti-ICBM defense system that can't work as promised, that will waste tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars and imperil national security, you won't hear about it from us. If studies suggest that the administration's antipollution measures would actually increase the dangerous particulates that people breathe during the next two decades, that's not our concern. No more discussions of how policies affect science either -- so what if the budget for the National Science Foundation is slashed? This magazine will be dedicated purely to science, fair and balanced science, and not just the science that scientists say is science. And it will start on April Fools' Day."

The leftist political dinosaurs at Scientific American have far too much ideological bias to be allowed to write much more than April Fool's jokes.

[FredZarguna]

Okay, We Give Up [Scientific American "Caves" on Evolution]

You should also have scare-quoted "Scientific" and "American".

[2ndreconmarine]

be more balanced in our presentation of such issues as creationism, missile defense and global warming

Alas, this is precisely what those of us who are scientists and conservatives have been worried about. They (the liberals) use creationism to attack other, reasonable ideas. So, they equate missile defense and a disbelief in global warming with creationism. It is, of course, a ridiculous argument. Guilt by association. However, we (a segment of the conservative community) provide them with the ammunition by supporting the idiocy of creationism and ID.

[myrabach]

Since when is Scientific American a serious scientific journal anyway? Undergraduate level at best, at least it makes the kids feel like they know science.

[cookcounty]

Well, once again, a peer-reviewed journal has told us an anti-missle defense can't work. Thus Spake the Scientists. I guess the rest of us can go and shut our brains off.

[RightWingAtheist]

SciAm doesn't get it. People don't object to policy being informed by science. What they object to is pre-held political views being hawked as "scientific", the same way the IDers try to disguise theology with the language of science.

[RogueIsland]

I stopped reading Sci Am when it became Discover Magazine wrapped in a Scientific American cover (and when they started politicizing everything in their magazine and running a bunch of paid advertising that looked like articles). It used to be a great magazine about twenty years ago. A shame.

[mudblood]

I actually enjoyed this up until the missle-defense and anti-pollution stuff. I thought it was a little odd that they were writing humor, but I thought, hey Mudblood, what's wrong with a laugh now and again? Then I read the Huffington-esque slant and I was like, "Wow, I do believe they suck..."

I used to subscribe but got sidetracked and haven't re-subscribed. I've always considered renewing, but was lazy and cheap :) Now I have a better reason not to. Besides, they don't have enough good articles on space exploration. Its always biology.