SO, POPULAR SCIENCE BASICALLY PUBLISHED THE SAME ARTICLE ON THE HUGO FIGHT THAT ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY HAD TO RETRACT: Now Vox Day is threatening libel and demanding a retraction. Is it reckless disregard to publish claims that another publication already had to retract?

UPDATE: From the comments: “I thought the demand was a joke. Then I read the PopSci article and couldn’t believe that such a thing was printed. It’s the type of batshit crazy stuff you’d see in a Berkeley alternative paper, not a science magazine.” The decline of Popular Science into a PC opinion mag has occasioned a mixture of dismay and schadenfreude among the PopMech crowd for several years, but this is a new low, I believe.