Scientific American editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth apologized Friday for her classless election-night rant against Donald Trump and his voters. That's a start, but it's going to take a lot of self-examination. [emphasis, links added]
And it's not just her.
Her expletive-filled posts are downright embarrassing, for example, “Solidarity with all the meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high school classmates who are celebrating early gains as they go to the moon and back.”
She's over 50 and still obsessed with Middle school?
Helmuth vented on Bluesky at least 3 times (one of
Then again, her magazine endorsed Kamala Harris after breaking 175 years of neutrality in 2020 to support Joe Biden — It's a clear sign that it's falling into the same extreme partisanship as most of the old-school media.
In fact, many real scientific journals — Nature, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine — endorsed Biden in 2020.
Surveys show that this has had an ugly backlash: making Trump voters more skeptical of the coronavirus.
However, SciAm and Nature did it again This year with Harris.
All this virtue signaling makes editors happy but hurts the institution’s brand: If they can't resist playing politics in public, what might they do behind the scenes when it comes to science?
Nature magazine even called Trump “Operation Warp Speed” and his life-saving COVID-19 vaccine “anti-science.”
Indeed, the ideological insistence that science “solves” everything from climate change (and what to do about it) to the wisdom of “transgender” minors is profound in itself. be opposed to-Scientific.
at this point, All these “science” journalists now need to prove that they have a real understanding of what science actually is.
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