Why is it that when you turn to the back pages of a science magazine, you find ads

for flagrantly unscientific products?

Doesn't this seem to be a violation of that magazine's mission?

It's certainly annoying and backwards, but the unfortunate fact is that even a science

magazine has to fulfill another mission as well to stay in business.

This dilemma is today on Skeptoid.

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Science magazines violating their own missions.

Today we're going to sit back with our favorite science magazine, open a cold beverage, and

read outrageous pseudoscience claims.

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