MIT's Knight Science Journalism program tracks and critiques science reporting in major media outlets.
HN commenters cite it to criticize weak science coverage, such as Newsweek's sensational covers and Malcolm Gladwell, and to question other science outlets' funding and accuracy.
There’s something fishy about Nautilus. One of their main contributors is the John Templeton Foundation:
“The work supported by the John Templeton Foundation crosses disciplinary, religious, and geographical boundaries. Our grantees produce field-leading scholarship across the sciences, theology, and philosophy. From probing gravitational waves to updating the modern evolutionary synthesis, they have contributed to major discoveries in the basic sciences. Other grantees have opened critical new topics to scientific investigation, including prayer, gratitude, immortality, and imagination.”
An initial reaction from someone online, https://ksj.mit.edu/archive/does-science-magazine-nautilus-have-agen/
In 2013, Amos Zeeberg, the digital editor of Nautilus said this in an interview:
“The Templeton Foundation provided all of the money for our launch and for the initial operation of the magazine. We hope they’ll fund us further, and we also are getting revenue from advertising and potentially other foundations.”
This is worse than pseudo science, it is complete mumbo jumbo, totally misrepesenting and misquoting sources.
To think that the author has been selected as an MIT Science Journalism fellow is truly mind boggling.
https://ksj.mit.edu/dispatches/2017/12/07/this-years-fellows-rowan-jacobsen/
I can truly say that I look forward to reading of the author's death from melanoma.
We're talking about Newsweek here.
Remember the "Heaven is real!" cover? (https://ksj.mit.edu/tracker/2012/10/heaven-real-doctors-experience-afterlife)
Remember "The Fall of France"? (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anne-sinclair/france-newsweek-article_b_4550066.html)
He's been discussed here before if you check the search engine, not a article on Blink but this was one on a previous discussion:
https://ksj.mit.edu/tracker-archive/should-we-stop-believing-malcolm-gladwel/