In September, I wrote about how that week’s matter of Scientific American issued its second-ever political support. No shockingly, the first confirmation was for Joe Biden in 2020, and the next one was for Kamala Harris.
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The candidates ‘ downright caricatural representation of both individuals and what their potential governments would bring was surprising. Harris had sell” the region better prospects, relying on knowledge, strong evidence, and the willingness to learn from experience”, while a Trump administration “endangers public health and safety and rejects evidence, preferring instead absurd conspiracy fantasies”.
Scientific American broke down the problems it thought the nation faced under various “scientific” divisions and adopts a blatantly far-left view of all. It was terrible and crazy, and it demonstrated the magazine’s determination not to knowledge, but to scientism.
I wrote at the time,” It’s telling that the scientists at Scientific American are thus answerable to the left that there is no room for additional opinions or ideas in their sealed heads.” Toby Young went further, calling the support” never a choice dictated by technology, but by religion”.
Relevant:  , The’ Science ‘ Has Spoken
Of course, we know how the vote went. Voters objected to the unfactual assessment of the potential contributions of a Trump or Harris management. Americans saw in Trump a return to sobriety and plausibility.
Scientific American’s editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth took to Bluesky, the left’s latest attempt to create a social media echo chamber, to trash Trump supporters and generally stomp her feet and pout that the election did n’t go her way. She called Trump electors the “meanest, dumbest, most prejudiced cluster of fascists”. What kind of medical study does she need to support that theory?
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In one article she wrote,” I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is so full of f***ing fascist”. In another, she expressed her wish to” f***]Trump voters ] to the moon and back”.
On X, liberals and respectable democrats learned from her comments and attacked her. She resigned from her position after discovering her utterly repulsive outbursts.
Without mentioning any of her past opinions, Heidi said on Thursday that she had decided to leave Scientific American after a remarkable four times as editor in chief.
Although it’s unclear whether Helmuth locked her X bill after the controversy broke out or before. She even issued an apology on the left-wing social media platform:
— Laura Helmuth ( @laurahelmuth. bsky. social ) November 7, 2024 at 12: 49 PM
” I am committed to legal connection and newspaper objectivity”, she wrote. As a GenX Trump voter, I ca n’t see how her calling me a” f***ing fascist” is either civil or objective, so I’m not buying the rhetoric.
Obviously, the comments are full of folks continuing to criticize Trump and his supporters. They’re as dirty as everything you’d expect from the crazed left.
In a statement to CNN from Scientific American’s President, Kimberly Lau,” We thank Laura for her four decades leading the newspaper, during which time it won significant technology communications awards and saw the creation of a redesigned online newsroom.” ” We wish her well for the future”.
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But, X people like Dr. Greg Marchand, a activist against transgender treatments for kids, applauded Helmuth’s departure.
As chairman of a major study institute, I don’t underestimate how valuable @LauraHelmuth’s pension from , @sciam is for study in America.
One of the most prominent journals in the world became awoke joke due to her liberal activism that she carried as a scientist. photograph. twitter.com/kZxweC5o3J— Greg J. Marchand MD ( @MarchandSurgery ) November 15, 2024
Under Helmuth’s career at Scientific American, the shop went so far to the departed that it almost became movie. The left ca n’t resist politicizing everything, including science, so for Helmuth to go can only improve the magazine — unless her replacement is worse.
