How is this a Scientific American article?
For the same reason that comic books and pretty much everything else in our increasingly PC totalitarian society has turned into a discussion of race.
The author is on the editorial board (I think), so they have to print any and all of his garbage there.
[ How is this a Scientific American article? ]
This whole article is akin to calling Sir Issac Newton a blithering idiot because he couldn’t figure out the theory of relativity....
They fail to mention that the slavery system was SET UP by the British when they setup the BRITISH COLONIES, and it took a while and lot of American blood to eventually unwind it.
If anyone can SHARE a large part of the blame of the “Original American Sin” it is the BRITISH!
Funny how these idiot political ideological slanted science nerds can excuse other cultural sins if they are located ELSEWHERE in the world, but if that sin is in OUR OWN country but located ELSEWHEN, the prospect of excusing it using the academia tool of “Cultural Relativism” becomes an impossible task.
Unscientific UnAmerican.
Google “anthony johnson and Casor suit” for a very interesting read on slavery in early colonial America. You will be shocked...
Scientific American lost its way many many years ago.... it is an outpouring of PC tripe, well not that I bother to look at it anymore....
I guess you didnt see the big topic for SUSTAINABILITY on top of their page. The commie left has infiltrated or out right taken over almost every source of information dissemination in America. Meanwile all rich conservatives like Zlimbaugh and Hannity care about is just getting richer. They would never spend a cent of their own money to buy or start a conservative newspaper or magazine.
It’s not. It sounds like one of the early hit pieces on Jefferson to accord him the Andrew Jackson treatment. Once Tubman makes her appearance on the 20, we can begin clearing the way for other American founders to fall in order to eventually get michelle obama and the little mister on theirs.
It may not actually be in the magazine, just on the website.
From one of their blogs. Independence Day tie-in.
Nowadays, everybody wants new daily content to generate clicks and they aren't very particular about what they get.