Why We’re Shutting Off Our Comments
Starting today, PopularScience.com will no longer accept comments on new articles. Here’s why.
Comments can be bad for science. That’s why, here at PopularScience.com, we’re shutting them off.
Exchange of ideas is bad for science? That is what science is.
… climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again. Scientific certainty is just another thing for two people to “debate” on television. …….
i.e. The Ministry of Truth is threatened by the fact that all of the expert forecasts have failed miserably.
Richard Feynman said “Science is the belief in the ignorance of (people like Popular Science Magazine)
I once saw one of their writers delete his and others’ comments after he was torn to shreds in the comments section of his article. That is the real reason they’re stopping the comments, as they’ve admitted.
So much for the Age of Reason.
So Mr Galileo Galilei you wish to question the authority of Pope Science?
“Popular Science” is headed the same way as Newsweek, irrelevant and history. When you are in the Internet, a medium of feedback and discussion and you do not want to discuss, only to preach, you will quickly find you are preaching only to the AGW choir. For years Popular Science has been high on Poop ular, very short on Science.
To fear comment in a comments section is truly bizarre, unless you have something to hide. The argument that they know better and are doing it for our own good is reminiscent of socialism from a bygone era.
It’s websites like SG and WUWT where real democracy is taking place, not the ballot box.
Popular science doing this is a bit like prohibition and likely to backfire.
Echo chamber.
Yesterday BoingBoing.net was plugging Popular Science’s decision and Vice.com had a video interview with Al Gore. Today Vice is literally advertising Aljezeera:
http://postimg.org/image/5b4avqbzx/
The trust fund hipster crowd is lost at sea still.
I’d plug any of those 4 bottom banners.:-)
Forget it, banners changed.
Thought you had a screenshot.
Joke fail.
Basically these jerks are saying that they are infallible or at least 95% infallible.
Don’t you moderate and delete comments all the time?
You have a bad habit of deleting every comment that refutes your poor arguments, and then calling them ‘idiots’ or other worse names without even bothering to refute them.
Pot. Kettle.
I will preface this comment by saying that I do not speak for Steven.
That said, moderating comments is not the same as no allowing comments. I have been banned from just about every alarmist site on Earth, not because I became belligerent, but because I refuted the alarm.
This site allows debate, but abhors stupidity. Those who continuously make ignorant comments and refuse facts deserve abuse, and sometimes banishment.
Would you like to debate the ‘science’ of AGW? Or are you more comfortable having elitists vote for their favorites, and leave everyone else out in the cold?
PS – Your comment was not only allowed, it is still here. 😆
Moderation is wordpress policy for first time posters. I only censor people for violence, obscenity and when it becomes obvious that they are only here to spam bomb,waste my time and disrupt the conversation.
“Comments can be bad for science. That’s why,”
Popular Science at one time was a magazine I enjoyed reading. Lately it’s became Popular Pseudoscience, not worth the space it takes up in the trash can.
This is an easy thing to fix, just start a blog called “popularscience-comments.com” … If they won’t manage comments, perhaps someone else should?
How can a comment be ‘bad for science’??
A comment is a conjecture: the first step in the Scientific Method [Conjecture, Hypothesis, Theory, Law].
They are simply attacking the Scientific Method, because it is falsifying their Belief system. Now, they are all co-religionists, with all the evil that implies.