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It tends to be more "spectacular" than pure "science" journals (like Nature, or the Journal Science). If you want "reliable," I would stick to the peer reviewed journals, not the "Entertainment Tonight" of science speculation. :cool:

 

 

However, to be clear, I enjoy reading it because it's exciting and is VERY thought provoking. :)

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The New Scientist! I love that magazine. It's more for scientists than simply for your layman science-geek or technophile, but the articles are readable and infinitely interesting to even us lowly uneducateds. It also provides proper citations so you can hunt down the real articles and check what they say, and it's British. That's a bonus for me at least. :P

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Is the information in this magazine reliable?

 

For the most part, yes. I think it is great!

Pop Science and Scientific American contributed in large part to my becoming a "real" scientist.

 

But as someone mentioned I think, it sometimes sensationalizes topics (but not nearly as much as the TV/newspapers and it is not so dumbed down) and it can be overly speculative at times. That said, they certainly don't print lies.

 

 

I still enjoy it sometimes, but don't read it (or Sci American) nearly as often as I once did.

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