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From: govett@avsd.UUCP (David Govett)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Unscientific Americans
Message-ID: <19@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 16:52:49 GMT
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> 
> $ flame -on
> I had a hard time dealing with that latest issue.  How many of you
> read the article on cranes?  Jeez, I'd have been happy to turn in
> a report like that in my English classes, maybe, or possibly an
> engineering class, but to publish it in Scientific American?  What,
> were the authors the sons of the publisher or something?  I was
> *disappointed* to see that article in there.  Quality Control has
> gone to hell in a bucket lately.

Have you noticed how politicized SA has become lately?  I remember
reading somewhere that the wife of the publisher is of the GPAC (give
peace a chance) persuasion, so she induced her husband to lard the
magazine with anti-SDI articles, etc.

And you thought liberal control of (much of) the media was a fantasy?

























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