Echoing this EU Referendum article, I will send somewhat less money across the pond – and none to the New Scientist magazine.

It’s not just the mediocre science reporting, examples of which abound, reaching absurdity as the title feature of the issue shown above.

It’s that this putatively science-oriented magazine has infused so much of its content with fashionable politics of the day that I can’t enjoy reading even the good stuff any more. Every other blurb, on whatever subject, will take time to put some digs into Stupid President Bush or Evil America or whatever. I’m not even an American but it embarrasses and angers me.

Unless the claim of the magazine is that science is inherently political, and they come clean with this, they are hereby punished for treating the matter so lightly. “The week’s best ideas”? Stop that subscription.