Scientific Journals’ Bias, Rants, And Partisanship Give Real Science A Drubbing
Scientific American chief editor Laura Helmuth apologized Friday for her utterly classless Election Night rants against Donald Trump and his voters
It’s a start, but a lot of self-examination needs to follow.
And not just by her.
Her expletive-filled posts were plain embarrassing, e.g., “Solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because f–k them to the moon and back.”
She’s in her 50s and she’s still obsessed with high school?
Helmuth vented at least three times on Bluesky (one of those X alternatives for libs who can’t bear disagreement), blaring her unprofessional lack of scientific detachment.
Then again, her mag endorsed Kamala Harris after breaking its 175-year streak of neutrality in 2020 to endorse Joe Biden — a clear sign it’s falling into the same extreme partisanship as most old-school media.
Indeed, a host of actual science journals — Nature, the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine — endorsed Biden in 2020.
Which brought an ugly blowback, surveys indicated: making Trump voters more suspicious of them on COVID.
Yet SciAm and Nature did it again with Harris this year.
All this virtue-signaling pleases the editors, but harms the institutions’ brands: If they can’t resist playing politics in public, what might they be doing behind the scenes when it comes to science?
Nature went so far as to call Trump — who gave us Operation Warp Speed, and its (alleged – Ed) ‘life-saving’ COVID vaccines — “anti-science.”
Fact is, the ideological insistence on calling science “settled” on everything from climate change (and what to do about it) to the wisdom of “transing” minors is itself profoundly anti-scientific.
At this point, all these “science” journalists now need to prove that they have any real clue what science is actually about.
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VOWG
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I haven’t seen much science when it comes to covid or climate. Agendas are not science.
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Frank S.
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There’s ‘political science’, but I doubt that discipline is in these med journals’ wheelhouse.
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Saeed Qureshi
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“At this point, all these “science” journalists now need to prove that they have any real clue what science is actually about.”
Exactly!
Science was such a prestigious and respectable area of expertise and knowledge people used to admire. Unfortunately, so-called scientists took it over, and their opinions (BS) became science. The medical area has been leading in this fraudulent practice. Their training and expertise have nothing to do with science but were projected as science and science expertise. Even politics became the political “science.”
The only way to address the situation is to bring back the actual science, which, as I explained here (https://bioanalyticx.com/what-is-science-and-who-are-scientists/), is studying physics and chemistry with mathematics.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Saeed,
You wrote: “Science was such a prestigious and respectable area of expertise and knowledge people used to admire.” Science as demonstrated by Galileo was, from the beginning, an intellectual ACTIVITY totally based upon what is OBSERVED.
And as Einstein later stated; “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
Have a good day
Have a good day
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SpaceCommando
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You guys wrote: “Nature went so far as to call Trump — who gave us Operation Warp Speed, and its life-saving COVID vaccines”
“Its life-saving COVID vaccines”?? Life-saving?? You can’t be serious . . . that goes against virtually everything about the “vaccines” that’s been posted on this site over the last 3+ years! If you guys actually believe that then everything else in this piece should be completely ignored.
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Howdy
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The article is by climate dispatch, not PSI. The staff here do not necessarily agree/disagree with articles published.
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Andy Rowlands
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I didn’t do this one, but after reading your comment and the article, I agree with you, and just added the word ‘alleged’ in the sentence about ‘life-saving’ vaccines.
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