Some (most?) freepers have trouble reading the academic papers but I think a link for those willing to try one is good. The popular articles will be read by more people but then you run into the problem of the posting rules. It’s Jim’s site, it’s Jim’s rules. I don’t blame him for not wanting to give hits to a leftwing site from FR. That’s how many of them make money.
To post here, just make a commitment to find blogs and such that comment on science articles if you want somebody else’s commentary otherwise make up your own. It’ll probably be just as good.
Although I’m reasonably bright, I haven’t the time to locate academic papers that may be interesting to the GGG group on FR and write up popularized summarys.
As far as not wanting to give “hits” to left-wing sites, that is balderdash. What about the call from FR conservative activists that often goes out to ‘freep” a perceived enemy site?
The definition of “to freep”, after all, is to visit another website with the objective of registering opposition to the prevailing viewpoint on that site.
Sort of a ‘do as I say and not as I do’ mentality, eh?