[WOSG]

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN has ceased to be about explaining real science for the layman. This is another example of a politicized magazine with pieces shadowboxing their 'enemy' ... who cares? what's of scientific interest that some obscure creationist dude cant get a park running? BFD, its not science its gossip.

After their Waxman article, after they bashed Teller, after they smeared "Skeptical Environmentalist", after they made bogus stem cell reaserch their most important scientific acheivement of 2004, and after they used the left-wing org UCS to bash Bush on his science policy in 2004 ... I gave up on it. Its current editor has thoroughly politicized the magazine and IMHO ruined it.

Now, they are just a science journal version of the MSM - agenda-driven, not fact-driven. Sad.

[D-fendr]

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN has ceased to be about explaining real science

Yep. Happened several years ago, I think when they were bought. It's a trash mag now. Not worth serious scientific consideration.

[Radix]

Sci American almost (IMO) died when Martin Gardner retired.

Doug Hofsteader was a good replacement, but then he left too.

Gosh, life is so much better now because of the Internet.

[muir_redwoods]

I agree, I had a subscription to SA for over 20 years but I let it lapse in 2001. The politics of the new boy-editor are so revolting I couldn't open the thing anymore. I look at the on-line version occasionally but it is more of the same.

Sad, a once great magazine with a rich and important history has been turned into a blatantly political rag.