They're professionals at writing maybe but that hardly makes them experts on science, history, politics, etc and I don't see any reason to give them a pass on their perpetual tendency to phone it in on the research.
That is by way of commentary, not rebuttal, just to be clear.

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Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!

LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Carl Sagan Advised US Defense Department to Win the Space Race by Nuking the Moon
02/12/2012 05:04:40 PM
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Mars can retain Oxygen just fine, and this isn't exactly new
03/12/2012 12:25:14 AM
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It does not seem to be doing a very good job of it; Mars' atmosphere is ~0.1% O2.
06/12/2012 12:16:16 AM
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There's a difference between retaining added and not having any
06/12/2012 01:44:56 AM
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Not practically.
07/12/2012 02:27:02 AM
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Yes, practically... I wouldn't mind you lecturing me on my own field if you got the stuff right
07/12/2012 04:19:29 AM
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Am I missing something?
03/12/2012 08:18:25 PM
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Perhaps Sagans subsequent suggestion we nuke Mars to make it habitable.
05/12/2012 11:00:08 PM
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Re: Journalists
05/12/2012 11:27:10 PM
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I am crediting professional writers with too much writing skill?
06/12/2012 12:24:49 AM
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I agree with Nate, lots of Journalists are very lazy and the science writers tend to be the worst
06/12/2012 01:55:16 AM
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Poor research is unprofessional journalism.
07/12/2012 02:31:53 AM
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I must have missed the part where Sagan advised them to nuke the moon to win.
04/12/2012 05:47:36 PM
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