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by carrotcarrot 1267 days ago
A professor I follow once said Nature isn't as prestigious as people think, they just publish such a high volume that people have gotten that impression
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I subscribed to Nature for a couple of years and although I am not a proper academic and maybe not the best judge, the articles in Nature sometime looks like they belong on vox.com or wired and not in a scientific paper.

As in opinions presented as evidence, from an almost random person, without actually providing any.

Especially around social subjects like the BLM protests.

One thing I loved about 60 minutes back in the day, was their ability to present a story from multiple points of views.

When I started reading Nature at my former employers, many many years ago, I felt their articles were like that.

At some point it started to look like cherrypicking a single viewpoint, often with obvious political taint.

Maybe it was always like that and I just used to idolize it.

I still very much love the magazine though but stopped subscribing. Its really expensive.

When I get my hands on a copy these days I just filter what I perceive as woke crap from the rest and skip those articles.

I wonder if that is such a good thing… Edit: typo and context