> The whole letter reads like a polemic attack on the editorial department of Scientific American. As I understand it, the furore here is over SciAm having pub

> The whole letter reads like a polemic attack on the editorial department of Scientific American. As I understand it, the furore here is over SciAm having published the article - not just that the article exists or that people disagree with it. If the authors of the open letter felt the article was substantive but wrong, I imagine they'd have written the kind of letter you're suggesting.