Nature Magazine Jumps the Shark
15th December 2019
As Scott Adams is fond of pointing out, the advent of digital analytics has changed the business model of publications from publishing things that people might want to read to publishing things that can be paired with scary headlines that will inspire clicks, the clicks that make money. The reason formerly reasonable science-oriented publications have turned into part of the Woke Mob is that they have discovered that if you want the clicks you have to serve the most easily outraged among the Great Unwashed, and those are invariably the Woke.