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Regarding the suggestion of a separate forum for science threads, I think that's a big mistake. Science is news. The education controversies over teaching science are news. The alleged anti-science attitude of the Republican party (so lovingly perpetuated by the MSM) is news. Editorials about such issues are also news. Such news affects the success of the Republican party. Further, it is (in my always humble opinion) very valuable to have such issues discussed in the news forum because it continues to attract highly educated conservatives -- such as scientists and other academics -- to this website.

On the other hand, there are blog articles related to these topics, often lacking in science content, which obviously belong in the blogger forum, or sometimes chat. But there is no need for the creation of a separate science forum. The news forum seems entirely appropriate.

You may recall, about three years ago, there were a few extremely disruptive posters who were trying to get all science articles banned from this website. Fortunately that effort failed, and most (but not all) of those disruptors managed to get themselves banned. There is no reason to revive their cause by considering a ban of science articles from the news forum. The problem isn't with the subject matter, it's with a few disruptive people. The problem will be easily handled with a few "Stay off this thread!" posts from the mods.

Good post. It deserves to be repeated.

Good post. It deserves to be repeated.

While I've been doing some ACTUAL work this afternoon, I've not been watching these threads and am now playing catchup.

I wonder about the few posts above.

What where THEY that they deserved ZOTTI NG?