As someone outside the scientific-academic community, I find his posts very accessible for learning news/issues about studies. I greatly appreciate his passion in trying to stop junk science from reaching the media. Maybe his rhetoric is too brash and coarse for the respectful standards of scientific discourse, but it's as harsh as it needs to be for scolding media outlets for running with junk science:

http://andrewgelman.com/2016/05/05/npr-bites/

http://andrewgelman.com/2016/11/03/its-not-about-reality-its...