[ExI] Bad, New Scientist, Bad!

[Olga Bourlin]

From: "Damien Broderick" <thespike at satx.rr.com>
To: "'ExI chat list'" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 9:08 PM
Subject: [ExI] Bad, New Scientist, Bad!


> <http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/569>
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> <http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/587>
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> <...most people absorb the cultural messages around them. The only message 
> most people will take in is from seeing the front cover of New Scientist 
> as they walk past the newsstand ...  There is no defence for New Scientist 
> on this one.>

Agree.  I imagine the New Scientist magazine folk are aware of the problem; 
however, they not only didn't offer a solution, but their cover may have 
contributed to even more confusion to that "walking by" public.  The 
"grab-'em-at-the-checkstand" tactics are used by those National 
Enquirer-type tabloids ... and, now, New Scientist.

The "problem":

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/01/evolution-darwin-survey-creationism

Olga

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