For those genuine scientists and science-lovers who are puzzled by the recent degrading politicization of their once interesting magazine and want facts on the situation rather than Hamas terrorist propaganda, the venerable and factual Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), as usual, provides them.
Everything is subject to subversion, and $$$ usually does the trick.
Climate Change does have one useful feature: it easily reveals a source as compromised if they are pushing this Con. Scientific American is pushing this Con.
I quit reading it back in 2001 when they veered left.
I seem to recall when I first joined FR almost 20 years ago that this magazine had fallen already. Like National Geographic and other media they were publishing global warming propaganda. This latest bit of agit/prop is no surprise.
I have noticed this change. It is now a highly political magazine rather than a review or summary of scientific publications.
SA was lost more than 20 years ago as they embraced Gorebal Warning as an existential threat to the Universe.
“Science!”
>>A few weeks ago, they published a lying screed, “Health Care Workers Call for Support of Palestinians,” which contained lying propaganda, altered photographs, and no facts.
I was a subscriber to Scientific American for many years. Many articles were far above my level of understanding. It was, as far as I knew, the ultimate authority on science.
Around 6-7 years ago I subscribed again, thinking that it was the same trusty magazine that I knew and respected. What a surprise! Every article had a politically correct slant. The contributing authors were no longer written by seasoned, respected scientists. The spectrum of authors was mostly certifiably “diverse.”
The final blow was their transition to political advocacy, trashing Trump. It’s become a useless rag. Goodbye Scientific American.
That's when they went off the rails, for me. They gave a lot of pages to Kostis Tsipis and other SDI critics during the Reagan administration. Over time, they became more and more political and less and less about science.
They were once such a great magazine. There has never been anything like Scientific American, nothing took their place when they engaged with the MSM political narrative.
The left has taken control of every institution.
I can’t think of one they don’t control.
Gramsci must be feeling rather smug in his grave to see how well his long march through the institutions has worked.
The sci-fi magazine OMNI had more cred than the last 20 years of SA.
You might recall he did the Amateur Scientist segment way back in the day
Smithsonian and Audubon have gone down the same trash wokeness path. Not worth reading.
“Scientific American is not scientific and not American: 175 years of trustworthy information on science in America from this publication is over”
heck, it’s been over for at least 20 years at S.A....
Bkmk
Like every other venerable institution in this country, SciAm has been poisoned by Leftist politics.