Popular Science Tweaks No-Comments Policy [Update]
Perhaps the outcry was larger than expected. Popular Science editor-in-chief Jacob Ward doesn’t really offer an explanation.
But with the announcement of a new Popular Science blog network, he throws in a major caveat:
A couple weeks before launching this network, we announced a new no-comments policy on the site. It was the result of a combination of factors: a rising tide of unpleasant comments, a growing body of evidence that those unpleasant comments, left unchecked, can have a disastrous effect on scientific comprehension, and a lack of resources to properly moderate the comments to ensure that the resulting discussion is productive.
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