Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!actnyc!gcf
From: gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Omni, & where have the quality general science 'zines gone
Message-ID: <803@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 14:18:53 GMT
References: <4349@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <1590@qetzal.UUCP>
Reply-To: gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Organization: InterACT Corporation
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In article <1590@qetzal.UUCP> rcw@qetzal.UUCP (0000-Robert C. White) writes:
} Is it my imagination, or has Omni deteriorated from a magazine with
} questionable scientific content to outright tripe?
} 
} Is it my imagination, or has Scientific American deteriorated from
} a fine magazine with good information for laymen to a magazine
} with questionable scientific content?

The epigrammatic mode aside, what have you seen in SA whose content
was "questionable"?  I concede that the verb tenses and disclaimers
in the article on superstrings were not all they should have been, and that
black holes are spoken of with an unjustified complacency, but careful
reading of the articles in question and others like them always shows 
that the authors know and admit that their conclusions are somewhat 
far-fetched.  I assume that SA's editors are keeping watch.

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