{"id":5667,"date":"2026-05-08T13:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:16:18","slug":"irresponsible-journalism-in-scientific-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2026\/05\/08\/irresponsible-journalism-in-scientific-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Irresponsible Journalism in Scientific American"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/a-100-year-old-theory-might-explain-whats-wrong-with-quantum-mechanics\/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=TIS_031626&amp;utm_term=100-year-old%20framework&amp;_kx=23PrvTqO1OP17cMLJ3RYTf1m78jwc_amvXrdZUalVyY.WEer5A\">recent article<\/a> in Scientific American promotes the views of someone who &#8220;has spent his entire career championing and extending de Broglie\u2019s views&#8221; and &#8220;recently spoke to\u00a0<em>Scientific American\u00a0<\/em>about his lonely(!) path and why de Broglie might have been on to something&#8221; without any specific acknowledgement that the vast majority of physicists are well aware of this &#8220;pilot wave&#8221; theory and do not believe that there is any significant chance that it &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/a-100-year-old-theory-might-explain-whats-wrong-with-quantum-mechanics\/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=TIS_031626&amp;utm_term=100-year-old%20framework&amp;_kx=23PrvTqO1OP17cMLJ3RYTf1m78jwc_amvXrdZUalVyY.WEer5A\">might explain what\u2019s wrong with quantum mechanics<\/a><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/a-100-year-old-theory-might-explain-whats-wrong-with-quantum-mechanics\/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=TIS_031626&amp;utm_term=100-year-old%20framework&amp;_kx=23PrvTqO1OP17cMLJ3RYTf1m78jwc_amvXrdZUalVyY.WEer5A\">A 100-year-old theory might explain what\u2019s wrong with quantum mechanics | Scientific American<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in Scientific American promotes the views of someone who &#8220;has spent his entire career championing and extending de Broglie\u2019s views&#8221; and &#8220;recently spoke to\u00a0Scientific American\u00a0about his lonely(!) path and why de Broglie might have been on to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2026\/05\/08\/irresponsible-journalism-in-scientific-american\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5669,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions\/5669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}