Yeah. People need to be more aware of who is funding what they’re reading.

Quanta naturally covers research that is funded by Simons Foundation. There have actually been many big news that Quanta has not covered or pretended didn’t exist when writing other articles. It’s a PR arm of Simons Foundation.

Also the writers are decent, but all of the scientific-to-lay explanations and analogies are coming from the researchers, if that wasn’t obvious. They are just paraphrasing since they can’t just write blocks of verbatim quotes or such.

Also yeah, the writers get access to researchers as a part of the funding.