Is livescience.com Safe?

WATCH OUT! Do you notice that little disclaimer in small print at the top. That's fancy language that they take money for sponsoring products. That is what this website is about. It provides poorly researched articles (pseudo-science) that pawns itself as valid research. The writers are a joke.

Pro: Provides a quick digest of current science events. Con: - Intrusive trackers, irrelevant ads, malicious ads. - Occasionally cited for malware, likely due to ads. Sum: A risky, mundane, sensational circus, using science as bait. References: ***** https://www.virustotal.com/#/domain/livescience.com

It is time for a total rewrite as this site continues to be a conundrum. Positives: It has a lot of quick reads on science generally explained without excessive geekspeak. It does a better job than most of identifying sponsored content. Many competitors ethics regarding this stink. Strikes against it: It has (at last count) 24 trackers and ads attempting to run in the background. EDIT: Correct that. If you block Servebom that number drops in half. Heaven help those who don't run things like NoScript and Request Policy. As far as the HPHosts report above the truth is anybody running dangerous browsers like stinky Internet Explorer are just plain committing high-tech suicide. It used to be much slower- plus if all the garbage loads too expect that to weigh it down even more.

Been connected to this site for a couple of years - and it is a phenomenal resource with articles on topics you don't find in mainstream media.  Never any issues as a result of visiting this site and highly recommend to anyone looking for some well researched topics on diverse topics affecting the earth and all life forms ... ok and space too!

The writers posting content on this website are still trying to rewrite history with an extreme progressive bent. A senior writer wrote a piece that claims that the North was blameless in Lincolns War. The south seceded because of the Morrill Tarriff - the tax rate went from 20% to 47% which bankrupted many southerners. The south made up 30% of the US population, but paid 80% of the tax. After the secession the only way for the US Government to collect the tax was invade the southern states and take property by force. Lincoln declared war on the south, not the other way around. Six percent of the south owned slaves prior to the start of hostilities; Seven percent of the north owned slaves and three northern states were completely against the war. The northern industrialists wanted cheap cotton for themselves instead of seeing the southern planters making a profit by selling overseas. If you want to comment you have to be connected to the slum of the internet - yahoo, aol, facebook, or hotmail.

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