I wasn’t sure whether to categorize this as space, or media criticism. Jeff Foust reviews what sounds like kind of a mess of an article about NASA’s space exploration plans at Rolling Stone. Don’t these people have fact checkers? If I were a journalist working in a subject area unfamiliar to me, I’d run the piece past some people who might be expected to know what they’re talking about, and I’d be embarrassed to get so much wrong in print.
But that’s just me. I guess they don’t mind being viewed as foolish by those more knowledgable.