re: #310 Walter L. Newton

I asked a question yesterday, a general “threw it out to the Lizards” question… (or I may have asked for Charles’ opinion)… but anyway, I got no answer, but… maybe you have an opinion.

Where would you hold Scientific American in the stacks of journals?

Scientific American is not a journal. It is a magazine written for lay people. However, it is easily the best magazine of its kind. Many of the articles in Sci Am are written by the actual researchers themselves - on a lay person level.

So as a rule of thumb, it’s pretty good. I say that in the same way I would say that a the information gained is comparable to a good Nova special.

As to being a research journal, not at all.