Must Scientists Credit Violent Anarchists' "Legitimate Concerns"?

The New Scientist regrettably reveals itself often as another example of those turgid science organs that have turned into sources of ideological propaganda. And so it is again with an article that starts by deploring anarchist attacks against scientists and winds up trying to defend anarchism.

The surprise is that anyone in a science journal would try to rationalize away the motives of terrorists. The shoe-on-the-other-foot test shows the folly. Imagine, for example, an article about some cri...