And one to be gained for going with it, as the Life award shows. I think the assumption is that if there were something wrong with the story the paper wouldn't be entering it. Lately there's been a lot of hand-wringing from the media about why it seems the public hates them. They reward dishonesty and incompetence with cover stories of major magazines. Then they hand out awards for those stories.
Good people suffer as a result.
Michael Fumento is a science correspondent for Reason magazine.