USA Today's Dan Vergano probably didn't mean to set off a social media explosion with his views on whether science writers are outcasts in major newsrooms. But that's about what happened, as evidenced by the dozens of comments attached to Vergano's Q&A, in which he asks: "Where is the science writer sitting at the editor-in-chief’s desk at Time, or the New Yorker, or the Atlantic? Why is David Brooks explaining social science or neuroscience to readers?"
