The headaches are in the details. Don't think a "popularizing" press editorship thinks that exhaustive recitation of evidence and excruciating qualification of argument sells magazines. There was a time a couple decades back when I could not "follow" a good deal of what I saw in Scientific American due to my limited training and aptitude for the language of mathematics. Not so now; scans as easily as Popular Mechanics while you wait for a haircut. I'll stand with MM even still; how could one develop a passion for depths if he had no interest in the surface? Popularization--every man's ten minutes of casual introduction to a new subject--provides a gateway to explorations and pursuits which might not be discovered otherwise. Not everyone takes the next step and pays to see the show; not the fault of the barker at the gate.

jack