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From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
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Subject: Re: Forrest Mimms fired by Scientific American
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Date: 7 Mar 91 00:54:33 GMT
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pauls@tellabs.com (Paul Silver) writes:

>Scientific American fired Forrest Mimms because having someone who
>believed in creationism as a member of their staff would cause the
>magazine to lose its reputation...  

Some of the ads they
run don't
enhance their
scientific reputation,
either. Neither do
some of their "Science and the Citizen" articles.

Is SA a scientific journal, or is it supposed to make money for 
Springer-Verlag? Their recent behavior is almost (not quite) 
enough to get me to drop them and join the AAAS for "Science" instead
of reading it at the library.