And he's probably right, and I bet that even Steven Streight would agree that Feldman has a point here. Now Loren Feldman has noted that most comments are truly inane, and that if someone had something worthwhile to say, that person could use his or her own platform, rather than piggybacking on Popular Science's platform. In other words, the interaction and testing of other minds and ideas, which is the very foundation of scientific progress. What is Popular Science shutting down?Дebate.

Science must run and hide from the mean old unorthodox thinkers? Science can't hold its own against pseudo-science trolls? (Although frankly, I'm not aware of a time when such a 'popular consensus' universally existed.)Д«ut Steven Streight wonders if something else is going on. So, as they put it, Popular Science is defending itself against the Neanderthal yahoos (not that they'd appreciate being called that) who do not accept the 'scientific certainty' espoused by the scientific community. Scientific certainty is just another thing for two people to 'debate' on television. Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again. The problem is when trolls and spambots overwhelm the former, diminishing our ability to do the latter.ДЄ politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics. Popular Science got into specifics a little bit later.ДЄs the news arm of a 141-year-old science and technology magazine, we are as committed to fostering lively, intellectual debate as we are to spreading the word of science far and wide. That's why, here at, we're shutting them off. Initially, I made no connection between the Shechtman story and the recent story involving Popular Science's discontinuation of comments - although some of Popular Science's statements struck me as somewhat odd.Д¬omments can be bad for science. The person who made that statement was Linus Pauling. In fact, one person commented, 'There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists.' And no, that person was not from Bob Jones University. Nearly two years ago, I wrote the story of Nobel Prize winner Dan Shechtman, and how his quasicrystal advances in science were greeted by the scientific community. Well, it's an Absolute Certainty - except when it isn't. Science (and I capitalize the word intentionally) is an Absolute Certainty which all businesses must acknowledge. Many businesses - heck, all businesses - must deal with the impact of Science.

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