We’ve seen a lot of magazines and journals that used to be widely respected, such as Scientific American, throw away all credibility in the race to be woke. The science journal Nature has been one of the worst offenders. In 2018, Nature found that assigning gender by the genitals one is born with “has no foundation in science.” Research on the differences between the sexes was “rife with bias.” Last year, Nature tried to diversify its ranks by hiring a black intern. No others need apply.
Now we’re here with more “science” to report. Nature tweets that an ultraconservative supermajority on the Supreme Court is declaring war on science.
A new ultraconservative supermajority on the United States’ top court is undermining science’s role in informing public policy https://t.co/ZHnF1UiA92
— nature (@Nature) September 14, 2022
Jeff Tollefson writes:
But as the court swung to the ideological right, its attitude towards science also shifted. For neuroscientists involved in juvenile sentencing, the tide turned in 2021. Reversing the trend in earlier decisions, the Supreme Court allowed a Mississippi court to sentence Brett Jones to life in prison without conducting a mental evaluation looking at his capacity for change. Jones was convicted of killing his grandfather when he was 15 years old.
“There’s no way to argue that this decision was enlightened by science: they clearly ignored it,” says Daniel Weinberger, who heads the Lieber Institute for Brain Development at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. “That’s a mindset, and that’s a reason to worry.”
“For many, however, a more pressing danger is to electoral institutions and democracy itself,” writes Tollefson, noting that scientists have been relied upon to say if a political map is fair.
I don’t know who at @nature needs to hear this but the Court’s role isn’t to help science “inform public policy” it’s to interpret the Constitution
— faitaccompli (@fateaccomply) September 14, 2022
https://twitter.com/Hbetyea/status/1570120424326848512
Might want to try getting the “Science” right once in a while before you start lecturing us
— Momeranthem say hi (@Aricariman1) September 14, 2022
What do you mean by "science?"
— Oisin of the Fianna (@OfOisisn) September 14, 2022
If a person is wearing a white lab coat when they say it, it’s science. That’s how someone like Hillary Clinton can stand at a podium and declare, “I believe in science!”
https://twitter.com/RickGarnett/status/1570154011600326657
When you allow politics and money to drive "science" and not the other way around, this is the end result. You have nobody to blame but yourselves.
— Samuel Culper Sr. (@SamuelCulperSr1) September 14, 2022
Breaking: @Nature confirmed as a partisan propaganda organization that self identifies as a scientific publication
— Barry Joe (@barryjeaux) September 14, 2022
What a garbage article.
"Science" has ruined its own reputation.
— S.Kinny (@SkinnyFilter) September 14, 2022
Scientists brought this shit on themselves when they became political activists. Sad but true.
— "You’re not special because you’re a journalist." (@MaceChan) September 14, 2022
You are destroying your last shreds of credibility. Please stop.
— nonbinarybrain (@nonbinarybrain1) September 14, 2022
https://twitter.com/Tkukdc/status/1570152604453244929
Stay in your own lane, Nature….you clearly don't understand our legal system, Constitution, and more specifically how appellate courts function (and how cases are decided by federal appellate judges)
— Iustinus I, Roman Emperor ✝️ ⚔️🇻🇦 (@JDubesesq) September 14, 2022
You mis-spelled "Normal American supermajority"
— FJBLGB – Ultra MEGA MAGA (@kebie19) September 14, 2022
Nature, when does life begin? Speaker Nancy Pelosi sure can’t answer that one, and she’s a devout Catholic.
Related:
'Insane, corrupt, not science': Renowned scientific journal Nature disgraces itself by licking the ChiComs' boots over COVID19 'stigma' https://t.co/NBjN3ysJiQ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 9, 2020
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