"Well Steve, while the (tabloidesque)articles I posted (you know, the ones you took a quick look at) were in science news articles, the journals where they were publiched were noted.

Could it be that they were not in keeping with your 'scientific beliefs/opinions'?"

Not at all. I get suspicious when I read such loose writing in supposedly learned journals and I did point to two examples of this that I picked up in just a quick flick-through. They were both howlers that, at worst, should have been picked up by a competent editor and, at best, not written at all. Popular science writing has its place as long as we remember that that's all it is.