Scientific American has been on a downward trajectory for a while now.
Here’s are some examples of their relatively recent low points, in case you missed any of them:
- SCIENCE: Scientific American looks into why white men stockpile guns (racism?)
- Forget the end of the world; Scientific American says climate change is affecting soccer now
- Scientific American puts objectivity aside and endorses Joe Biden because ‘the 2020 election is literally a matter of life and death’
- ‘Whiteness Mad Libs journalism’ Scientific American asks if climate anxiety is ‘a form of white fragility or even racial anxiety’
- Scientific American is going to ditch boring old ‘climate change’ in favor of much scarier-sounding ‘climate emergency’ because Science™
- Scientific American: The crisis doctors faced in the 1950s was having no idea what made people male or female
- Scientific American opinion piece tries and fails to use physics to justify ‘abortion care’
That’s quite a collection, isn’t it? We’re not sure exactly what made them decide to abandon actual science in favor of scoring wokeness points, but whatever it was, they should’ve ignored it. Because now they just look stupid.
And they are apparently determined to see just how much stupider they can look:
Old enough to remember when Scientific American was a magazine about science. pic.twitter.com/WVeKdvanzp
— Max (@MaxNordau) August 8, 2022
Ooo! And it’s a “SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION,” no less! So people who are stupid enough to believe that social justice is rooted in science can treasure it forever and ever.
Wow, that list of topics on the right. Why would anyone buy a science magazine if that's what's in it??
— Caddy Turveydrop (@CaddyTurveydrop) August 8, 2022
At this point, you’d be better off just buying Mother Jones or something. At least they don’t pretend to be something they’re not.
Having something besides le wokisme would be an admission that there is anything else that matters, which is unacceptable.
— Max (@MaxNordau) August 8, 2022
“Science” and “scientific” just don’t mean what they used to.
I am old enough to remember looking forward to reading it.
— Carl Edman🌐🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@CarlEdman) August 8, 2022
Boy, those were the days, weren’t they?
I wonder if, in some parallel universe, there's a publication called Equitable American that publishes actual science instead of social justice litanies. https://t.co/ZG2aDHNSDQ
— Nemesis 2023 (@Nemtastic1) August 8, 2022
Ha! That would be something, wouldn’t it?
I was a subscriber of SciAm from 1975 till about 2010. I saw them influenced to promote political narratives instead of Science. Same with National Geographic. Such a shame they were hijacked away from their raison d'etre.
— Don Gates (@GATESDK) August 8, 2022
What a pathetic joke
— The Panic (@ThePanic16) August 8, 2022
You genuinely hate to see it.
