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2 weeks agoThe Problem with Billionaire Science
The line is at the top of the page, right under the words Scientific American, declaring the publication's mission: The advocate of industry and enterprise, and journal of mechanical and other improvements. It grabs my attention because it reminds me that the first issue was created in large part to promote manufacturing and trade; it's pro-business, pro-capitalism, pro-wealth in ways that we don't see much in modern science journalism or in science as a whole.