We've written before how once-respected magazines and journals like Nature, Popular Mechanics, and Scientific American have all thrown away their credibility in the name of politics. Nature, for example, reported that establishing a legal definition of whether someone is male or female based on the genitals they are born with "has no foundation in science." Popular Mechanics asked scientists for "the best, safest ways" to bring to the ground "a statue that you decide you no longer like."
Scientific American essentially endorsed Kamala Harris back in July by saying that because her mother was a biomedical scientist, Harris would bring science to the forefront of her administration. Her father was also a Marxist and she brought that to her administration, so maybe it makes sense.
For only the second time in our 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. That person is @KamalaHarris. | Editorial https://t.co/dOsFW8BQCn
— Scientific American (@sciam) September 16, 2024
The editors write:
In the November election, the U.S. faces two futures. In one, the new president offers the country better prospects, relying on science, solid evidence and the willingness to learn from experience. She pushes policies that boost good jobs nationwide by embracing technology and clean energy. She supports education, public health and reproductive rights. She treats the climate crisis as the emergency it is and seeks to mitigate its catastrophic storms, fires and droughts.
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Only one of these futures will improve the fate of this country and the world. That is why, for only the second time in our magazine’s 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. That person is Kamala Harris.
Guess when the first time was?
Maybe there's a reason it didn't happen so much before
— Clifton Duncan (@cliftonaduncan) September 16, 2024
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A science magazine should not be endorsing presidents. This is why you have lost all credibility. And yes, I'd be equally critical if you had endorsed Trump.
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) September 16, 2024
But look at the science! Look at Harris' record on climate change and reproductive rights!
Thank you for providing a fine example of the capture of organizations by partisan democrats.
— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) September 16, 2024
"I wasn't sure about Kamala Harris... but then Scientific American magazine endorsed her and that's when I was sold on her!" -- Literally nobody anywhere
— Five Times August (@FiveTimesAugust) September 16, 2024
2 endorsements over 179 years and they are for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris 😂
— Johnny Utah (@fjalladrengur) September 16, 2024
Look at Joe Biden's scientific approach to allowing boys to play on girls' sports teams. Or the fact that he ended cancer as we know it.
One candidate denies the science of a fetus being a human life, science of XY chromosome, and will fill government with like-thinking climate ideologues... the other is Republican.
— Razor (@hale_razor) September 17, 2024
You have zero credibility.
— JWF (@JammieWF) September 17, 2024
Be truthful, was it the Venn Diagrams that put her over the top? https://t.co/M2MG9NKILU
— Victoria Taft, The Adult in the Room, FITF Squad (@VictoriaTaft) September 17, 2024
That or the Q&A session she had with child actors about Space Force and NASA. Plus, Joe Biden put her in charge of overseeing artificial intelligence and set her to meet with the leading innovators.
Political Science
— Max (@MaxNordau) September 16, 2024
Disgraceful partisanship.
— Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) September 16, 2024
Risible. Unprincipled. Embarrassing.
Shameful.
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) September 16, 2024
It looks like this is going to be a thing now every four years at Scientific American.
Remember when TIME Magazine named Ahmed “Clock Kid” Mohamed to its Most Influential Teens of 2015 list for what Barack Obama called his "cool clock" with the numbers on the inside of the case? He even got invited to Science Night at the White House where he got to mingle with other renowned scientists like Bill Nye, the Science Guy.
And they wonder why we don't trust scientists anymore.
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