You’re right. But it took me an hour or so to run it down and post it.
Of course that begs the questions of:
(a) whether the entire academic paper, as opposed to a popularized interpretational article will hold the interests of casual readers and
(b) what possible political contamination could occur to the faithful readers of FR articles, simply by virtue of the fact that a completely apolitical article happened to be posted on an ‘enemy’ website.
I understand when publications don’t permit copyrighted articles to be posted on FR and they are forbidden by agreement.
But establishing a blacklist of organizations that are left-leaning without regard to the content of individual articles but to the organiation alone seems to be a slippery slope? When will articles from the BBC, CBS, ABC or Wikipedia or many left-leaning newspapers like the Houston Chronicle (who aren’t banned by legal agreements) be similarly placed on a list of forbidden organizations?
The problem is that there are literally thousands of enemy media and the moderators can’t know them all so its possible for seditious material to sneak its way in to FR anyway.
I guess my libertarian views that inform my argument on this issue are predicated on a tenet of the college I attended long ago. I believe in “Man’s right to knowledge and the free use thereof.”
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.