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From: zeus@aerospace.aero.org (Dave Suess)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Unscientific Americans
Message-ID: <260@antares.aero.org>
Date: 5 Mar 88 20:07:59 GMT
References: <3555@dayton.UUCP> <19@avsd.UUCP>
Reply-To: zeus@antares.UUCP (Dave Suess)
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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In article <19@avsd.UUCP> govett@avsd.UUCP (David Govett) writes:
>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.
	SA has, for several years, led off with a "soft science" issue,
	mostly in sociology, economics, or politics.  Needless to say,
	SDI falls into this category, since it would be difficult to come
	up with a competently-written technical article that is pro-SDI.

>And you thought liberal control of (much of) the media was a fantasy?
	Right.  Excuse my while I tune in a Marxist preacher on the
	tube -- whoops!  Nobody today but Buckley and Falwell.  Oh, well.