{"id":79972,"date":"2023-02-12T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=79972"},"modified":"2023-02-11T11:42:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T16:42:58","slug":"junkscientific-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/02\/12\/junkscientific-american\/","title":{"rendered":"JunkScientific American<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

The editors of Scientific American<\/em> have been steadily injecting more political and progressive content<\/a> into their traditional coverage of hard scientific topics:<\/p>\n

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Scientific American<\/em> magazine has been around since 1845, evolving into a reader-friendly purveyor of hard science, a respected, slightly intimidating denizen of supermarket checkout lines. But judging by the recent ridiculous trend of stories and editorials, it’s been wholly captured by the woke blob.<\/p>\n

On the surface<\/a> the monthly still does what it says on the label in providing long articles, short reviews, and cool photographs for an intelligent audience, with almost-comprehensible stories on the physics of black holes for science buffs, and stunning photos of deep-sea creatures for the rest of us.<\/p>\n

But then there’s the ludicrously left-wing ideology that seeps into every issue. A NewsBusters<\/em> perusal of the contents of each 2022 regular-release monthly issue revealed 34 stories grounded in liberal assumptions and beliefs, nearly three per issue. That’s even after skipping stories with liberal themes that were nonetheless science-based — for example, a cover story on melting glaciers in Antarctica wasn’t included.<\/p>\n

Of course, the COVID pandemic in particular tugged the magazine toward government interventionism and the smug rule of health “experts”.<\/p>\n

Some of the most bizarrely “woke” material is online-only, with a wider potential reach. The most notorious recent example is a January 6, 2023 opinion piece, cynically seizing on the on-field collapse of a Buffalo Bills player to label the NFL racist: “Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football — The “terrifyingly ordinary” nature of football’s violence disproportionately affects Black men<\/a>“. It’s written by Tracie Canada, who is, no surprise, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology.<\/p>\n

So what’s the solution? Surely Canada wouldn’t recommend banning blacks from the National Football League for their own protection?<\/p>\n

But plenty of bizarre pieces fill the print edition. Here’s a headline from the July 2020 issue of this purported science magazine: “The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity<\/a>“. Yet a June 2019 SA<\/em> article argued that the nation’s “biggest health problem<\/a>” was obesity. So is Scientific American<\/em>, for being concerned about obesity, by its own bizarre standard racist as well?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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