Worth reading!-----Scientific American Is a Zombie - DAVID STROM

Rather than being a highbrow popularizer of scientific writing, it became a highbrow publisher of chanting points that would filter down into the educated elite, validating what the blue-haired harpies chanted on our streets and classrooms.

 

Michael Shermer got his first clue that things were changing at Scientific American in late 2018. The author had been writing his “Skeptic” column for the magazine since 2001...

“I started to see the writing on the wall toward the end of my run there,” Shermer told me. “I saw I was being slowly nudged away from certain topics.” One month, he submitted a column about the “fallacy of excluded exceptions,” a common logical error in which people perceive a pattern of causal links between factors but ignore counterexamples that don’t fit the pattern. In the story, Shermer debunked the myth of the “horror-film curse,” which asserts that bad luck tends to haunt actors who appear in scary movies...