Posts Tagged ‘new scientist’

Taking a chainsaw to the Tree of Life pt.2

Posted on January 29th, 2009 by by Chris Lawson

What’s wrong with New Scientist [Follows from a previous post] In one sense, and I am sure this is the sense that New Scientist will use in its defence, the headline is perfectly true. Darwin was wrong. He wrote The Origin of Species in 1859. A small selection of the things he didn’t know about at the time [...]

Taking a chainsaw to the Tree of Life

Posted on January 24th, 2009 by by Chris Lawson

Observe the New Scientist cover above. This is the final straw for me. I used to subscribe to New Scientist, but after reading a series of very poor articles I let the subscription lapse. Since then, I have bought a few issues from the newsstand and I see the occasional story referred on by email, [...]