Cyc to HAL. "You shoudn't have been so mean to Dave."

Please, could an editor go back and check this article for spelling? It's not "reknowned", it's "renowned". 10 to the power 100 is a "googol", not a "google". At that point I stopped reading...

You refer to "google" as 10 followed by 100 zeroes. Umm, no. The number 1 followed by 100 zeroes, and the name is properly spelled "googol".

When I read about or go to seminars on dark matter and the accelerating expansion of the universe, I think of John Horgan who wrote a book titled "The End of Science". In this book he claimed two things: all of the core discoveries have been made in science and if there's a lot more, it's all too big for the human brain. In other words, science has come to an end. Not only has science not come to an end, but exciting discoveries continue to be made.

Horgan previously wrote for Scientific American. After he published "The End of Science" he and Scientific American parted ways. I have no idea why this was. But I've always wondered if the reason was that Horgan and the main stream of scientific through parted company. Horgan's publishing resume seems to reinforce this speculation. After "The End of Science" he wrote "The Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation" and "Rational Mysticism : Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment".

All this suggests to me not that Horgan is an accomplished science writer, but that he delves farther and farther into pseudo-science and scientific skepticism without fully understanding what he's writing about. For those of us interested in well informed science writing, this begs the question of why we should bother reading anything Horgan writes.