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The true power of markets is that these sorts of editorial mismanagement only mean one thing: people stop purchasing an increasingly subpar print.

I used to read SciAm regularly. But this type of Wokeism into everything and calling great people horrible things after they die is so disgraceful.

How can anyone take the magazine with an ounce of seriousness anymore?



As much as I love markets in a libertarian sort of way, they are not perfect. Markets can be slow, and there are many different types of customers.

Fox News and CNN still "sell" decently well. CNN used to be the "real news" some years ago. Not any more. The product has changed. They still try to claim to be the "real news". They are really not. They are, for the most part, an opinion outlet with narrow agenda. Fox News is, more or less, exactly the same but pointed almost perfectly in the opposite direction.

It's not unthinkable for Scientific American to "transform" itself in a similar way and find customers while claiming to be about "science" while it can be mostly about "agenda".


I wouldn't say CNN is perfectly in the opposite direction; rather, they're on nearly opposite ends of the Overton window.


Just read about the Overton window. Curious & neat concept, thank you. I agree.




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