Monday, September 30, 2013

POPULAR SCIENCE: Why We're Shutting Off Our Comments

 

 

 
 
 
 
Popular Science is no longer "POPULAR"
 
 
 
Popular Science receives too many comments against their flawed science and shuts down comments
 
 

Popular Science Succumbs To Corporate Pressure And Shuts Down COMMENTS

Starting today, PopularScience.com will no longer accept comments on new articles. Here's why.

A politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics. Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again.

MORE:  http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/why-were-shutting-our-comments





 
In other words, Popular Science is getting tired of all the comments pointing out where Popular Science is wrong, especially about human-caused global warming.

And Popular Science is not the only corporate media now shutting off comments to save face.

And what this will mean is FEWER people will be reading Popular Science, because the public has a taste for being able to contribute to the discussions now, and will favor the independent media, where the First Amendment (not to mention the truth) is still respected!



 

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