Why I dropped Science (the magazine) because of the extreme censorship imposed

 Some have asked me why I am not 

renewing Science since their extreme censorship of the 

discussion groups is unrelated.

This is the same organization so I now have some

questions about how they approach filtering the

science they publish in Science, my real reason

for not paying even my discounted retired, elderly

rate, the money goes to the people who developed AND

enforce the censorship and I decline to

support meaningless censorship in any way.


Other comments/thoughts, welcome.

Greetings to my visitors from the UAE

and Brazil. (although Google Analytics does

NOT track identities or even IPs of visitors,

it does try to indicate the geographic location of 

visitors.)

Comments

siliconsamurai said…
I am testing the comment feature to
determine if it is working correctly
for visitors.

BTW, I get lots of journals and have
time to read most, but Nature (UK) will
now be my go to for a general science
journal.

Obviously some will have long-term, even
lifetime subscriptions to Science/AAAS
or other reasons (such as publishing there, or
having friends who publish in Science)
for continuing to use Science and
I have no problem with that, I just
won't do so myself.

(There is little likelihood I would be
offered a column there anyway GRIN)
March 2, 2021 at 7:36 PM
Uluru said…
Lots of negative feedback is now going to AAAS about their new format, a great number of them negative. I have been reading those, but now they are setting up individual "silos" where contributors must pick and choose which silo to enter and read and perhaps contribute. There is no apparent inclination by AAAS to go back to the open forum that they had. I am leaving that forum now too.
March 10, 2021 at 4:45 PM
siliconsamurai said…
I'm getting a few comments but it looks as if
almost no one from AAAS is really interested
in an open discussion here.
I recognize the efforts of the few such as Uluru but
no discussion is taking place here in part
because I have no way to reach the dissenters
who really liked the mildly censored AAAS
discussion group.

AAAS is now censored completely - even things like
my post about men, eggs, and type-2 diabetes can't
be posted or discussed unless some staff member
decides it is important enough.

If anyone else is able to start a discussion area
I'd be happy to join in and drop my efforts here.
March 10, 2021 at 10:54 PM
siliconsamurai said…
I don't know how it got past the censors except that
perhaps they didn't understand the references.

Put more plainly here, I was a rancher and a silo
is where we put hay to ferment. The fermented/rotted
silage is fed to sheep and cattle.

Of course I was saying that the AAAS use of silos
was aimed at taking innocuous ideas and turning them
into something fit for sheep.

As a shepherd (600 St. Jacob horned sheep) I
appreciate why so many ministers refer to their
"flocks."

"Sheep in the Rafters" book. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SLMJHUI
March 16, 2021 at 3:57 PM
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