Don't read Scientific American

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There's no easy way to admit this. For years, helpful letter writers told us to stick to science. They pointed out that science and politics don't mix. They said we should be more balanced in our presentation of such issues as creationism, missile defense and global warming. We resisted their advice and pretended not to be stung by the accusations that the magazine should be renamed Unscientific American, or Scientific Unamerican, or even Unscientific Unamerican. But spring is in the air, and all of nature is turning over a new leaf, so there's no better time to say: you were right, and we were wrong.In retrospect, this magazine's coverage of so-called evolution has been hideously one-sided. For decades, we published articles in every issue that endorsed the ideas of Charles Darwin and his cronies. True, the theory of common descent through natural selection has been called the unifying concept for all of biology and one of the greatest scientific ideas of all time, but that was no excuse to be fanatics about it. Where were the answering articles presenting the powerful case for scientific creationism? Why were we so unwilling to suggest that dinosaurs lived 6,000 years ago or that a cataclysmic flood carved the Grand Canyon? Blame the scientists. They dazzled us with their fancy fossils, their radiocarbon dating and their tens of thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles. As editors, we had no business being persuaded by mountains of evidence.

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The fact that they call the magazine "scientific" is a lude misrepresentation. Doh to the freedom of press.

Popular Mechanics FTW.

I sent this e-mail to the editors.

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One of the earliest lessons taught in schools in the pursuit of science, and widely agreed upon, is the scientific method.http://school.discovery.com/sciencefair ... ethod.html

This method of thinking includes reasoning, facts, backed by testing and scientific conclusions. One simply can’t be a scientist without using the scientific method.

I haven’t read Scientific American in years, but recently decided to buy a copy while at an airport. I remembered loving to read magazines like Scientific American and Popular Mechanics. Anyways, I decided on Scientific American.

I chose poorly. I don’t know what happened to the magazine but what a horrid display of writers and misuse of the term “science.” Many of the articles had poorly justified reasoning by using words such as “faith” and “hope!” I’m not against religion, but I am against idiocy and bad logic.

You and your staff should be ashamed for your painfully disgusting and dishonest magazine. I hope you and your team have trouble sleeping at night for the amount of years you have set back the field of science and hard working scientists. Why not do yourself a favor and push to get the magazine renamed.

This will help to improves sales because your primary customer will no longer be innocent one time readers like me, but rather long term customers, like religious minded thinkers who can painfully justify arguments with false logic. How about unintelligent design magazine? Plus this will attract the right kind of readers, rather than people like me who will only speak poorly about it.

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huh?

reads like an april fools to me...

only seven months late

Could be accept the reason I looked into it was because how offended I was by the magazine.

I think the original post may have been, more than likely, an april fools joke.

I was pretty pissed off by the tone of the magazine last time I read it, many of the articles taking an accusatory tone towards scientists for not solving their life problems fast enough, many of the articles debunking scientific arguments by saying they're "better off just having faith." There was an article on creationism and ID, arguing to support it, or that it would not be fair to "scientifically" reject it, while not understanding science I guess.

Lewdly? I thought I used "lude" incorrectly, but I didn't care to enough to find the correct word. Thanks for being patronizing and pointing it out.

Anyways, take a look at the magazine next chance you get, if you're smart enough you will understand.