Scientists get snarky

A great editorial (excerpted extensively here) from the Scientific American editors, in response to criticism of their "unfair biases" in reporting, you know, facts.

We owe it to our readers to present everybody's ideas equally and not to ignore or discredit theories simply because they lack scientifically credible arguments or facts. Nor should we succumb to the easy mistake of thinking that scientists understand their fields better than, say, U.S. senators or best-selling novelists do. Indeed, if politicians or special-interest groups say things that seem untrue or misleading, our duty as journalists is to quote them without comment or contradiction. To do otherwise would be elitist and therefore wrong.

Wow, that must have been building for a long time. Go, read the rest of it -- it's all that good! Whew!

(via Alas, a blog)