They were by the time I first ran into them aggressively fighting about it all the time...I’m a science junkie and really enjoy reading a wide variety of science articles, but it was useless trying to ever discuss the articles, because soon as the article was published, the warring would commence.
I enjoyed the debates for a while, but it would quickly deteriorate into personal attacks. I had some horrible things said about me, and generally lost my appetite for crevo threads.
However, like you I enjoy the articles. There are still some pretty good discussions on the astronomy/physics articles.