> The whole letter reads like a polemic attack on the editorial department of Scientific American. That's because it is. Any magazine that purports to be infor

> The whole letter reads like a polemic attack on the editorial department of Scientific American. That's because it is. Any magazine that purports to be informing the public about science should never have published the original article. It is in fact an opinion piece, and an ill-informed one at that. I agree that a magazine is unlikely to publish an article that attacks its own editorial policies, but that doesn't make the magazine right.