Goodbye, Scientific American
Home / General / Goodbye, Scientific American!Goodbye, Scientific American! By Cheryl Rofer / On June 25, 2026 / At 1:27 pm / In General 427 Views Scientific American has been acquired by LabX Media Group, which holds Discover Magazine, IFLScience, and a number of other science publications. I haven’t looked at IFLScience since it was a Twitter account stealing other people’s material.
- ▪Home / General / Goodbye, Scientific American!Goodbye, Scientific American!
- ▪By Cheryl Rofer / On June 25, 2026 / At 1:27 pm / In General 427 Views Scientific American has been acquired by LabX Media Group, which holds Discover Magazine, IFLScience, and a number of other science publications.
- ▪I haven’t looked at IFLScience since it was a Twitter account stealing other people’s material.
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| Original publisher | Lawyers, Guns & Money |
| Canonical URL | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/goodbye-scientific-american |
| Publication time | Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:19:51 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-26T07:37:30.198Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-26T07:37:30.198Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | BlTFMXZWdaf- |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Home / General / Goodbye, Scientific American!Goodbye, Scientific American! By Cheryl Rofer / On June 25, 2026 / At 1:27 pm / In General 427 Views Scientific American has been acquired by LabX Media Group, which holds Discover Magazine, IFLScience, and a number of other science publications. I haven’t looked at IFLScience since it was a Twitter account stealing other people’s material. They say it’s different now. And they have started out by firing writers and editors. The Writers Guild of America – Scientific American union has released a statement. We are shocked by this news, which comes just three days before the NLRB will count our votes on unionizing—a vote we know we won by an overwhelming majority.
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