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Two things can be true at the same time: one, quanta magazine is the best publication out there when it comes to popularizing recent advances in fundamental phy
by prof-dr-ir 4y ago
Two things can be true at the same time: one, quanta magazine is the best publication out there when it comes to popularizing recent advances in fundamental physics and mathematics; and two, this article was bad.
If we are allowed to base our opinion of a publication on one article, should I declare that Mateus Araújo's blog is dead to me?
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- dudeinjapan 4y agoSchrödinger's magazine?
- sigmoid10 4y agoOnly if these two things were mutually exclusive. But in reality, the underlying assumption is a false dichotomy.
- aortega 4y agoThe article is brilliant until observed.
- pyb 4y agoJournalism is about trust. In a sense, scientific magazines are only as good as their worst articles. My opinion just shifted from "if it's in Quanta, it's probably correct" to "I need to fact-check everything they say".
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoThis article is particularly bad, but I can't remember the last time I saw a Quanta article that didn't grossly misrepresent the research.