Posted on 11/15/2024 3:15:02 AM PST by Libloather
Laura Helmuth, the editor-in-chief of Scientific American, has resigned after receiving fierce backlash for her online expletive-filled tirade where she called Trump voters “f–king fascists” on election night.
“I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief,” Helmuth announced on her Bluesky account Thursday.
“I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching).”
The president of the magazine, Kimberly Lau, said that Helmuth decided to step down on her own.
She thanked Helmuth for her time leading Scientific American, noting that the magazine “won major science communications awards and saw the establishment of a reimagined digital newsroom” while she was at the helm.
“We wish her well for the future,” Lau said in a statement to The Washington Post.
Lau said the magazine has already begun its search for a new editor.
The Post has reached out to Scientific American for comment on Helmuth’s resignation.
Helmuth’s resignation comes after she fired off a series of social media posts on election night bashing people who voted for president-elect Donald Trump over Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because f--- them to the moon and back,” she wrote in one post on the social media platform Bluesky on Nov. 5.
In another post, Helmuth wrote, “I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is full of f------ fascists.”
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Hated to let National Geographic go. The photos were good.
Haven’t picked one up this century.
Sounds like Laura Helmuth has an open mind/s
Interesting timing.
S'pose it's a coinkydink...? 🤔
I've got news for her. The under 30 crowd, men and women, shifted red this election.
The left’s MO is to infiltrate and eventually control any outlet of information that actually produces real, honest data and facts. Truth is their #1 foe. Scientific American will replace this person with another just like her.
The major “science” journals became completely captured by Leftist politics a generation ago - and have thus rendered themselves completely unreliable for anyone interested in objective science.
Bye Laura.
What a shame that such a fine scientific peer reviewed magazines evolved to a POS toilet paper.
They ruined a once great magazine.
She sounds very scientific. Trust the science.
Demonstrates the level of scientific integrity of the rag. She supports democracy until the people vote majority against her emotions.
Dump it down the sink dear and start the test again. You screwed it up.
Here is another one, right in the toilet. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The lead articles in the Sep issue have zero to do with their expertise.
https://thebulletin.org/magazine/2024-09/
MAGAZINESEPTEMBER 2024
Parthenon undergoing renovations
Introduction: Securing elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem in a critical political year
By John Mecklin, Dan Drollette Jr
This election will take place in a landscape full of threats to many of the world’s democracies. This issue of the Bulletin strives to help citizens and their public officials reduce those threats and preserve representative governance.
The campaign volunteer who used AI to help swing Pakistan’s elections: Interview with Jibran Ilyas
By Thomas Gaulkin
The US-based architect of an unusual and perhaps unprecedented electoral intervention tells how and why he created an AI-generated message from former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan—who had been imprisoned on a variety of controversial charges—to his followers in the waning days of Pakistan’s national elections.
How demagogues destroy democracy: a step-by-step global guide
By John Keane
Today’s demagogues are the harbingers of a new, 21st-century form of despotism: a corrupted, “phantom democracy” in which periodic elections are held but the rich become super-rich and omnipotent—while most of the populace is gripped by feelings of powerlessness.
Constitutional mistakes of the past can tyrannize the present—but we can fix them
By Lawrence Douglas
The United States lacks an electoral court to protect the integrity of the electoral process—in fact, our electoral system is organized in such a way that it invites attacks on its integrity. These problems in design can be traced back to the US Constitution, which suffers from certain defects that leave the United States vulnerable to democratic back-sliding.
The path to compulsory voting
By Aidan Calvelli
Americans don’t vote. For all their talk of democracy, US voters have some of the lowest turnout rates in the developed world. Other countries have taken on their turnout woes with a direct approach: compulsory voting. Here’s how it could be made a reality here.
An interview about the 2024 election with Harper Reed, chief technology officer for Obama 2012
By John Mecklin
An overview, from an insider, of the technological landscape involved in the last few months of the 2024 election—whether they be candidates, political operatives, or informed voters.
RFK Jr.’s presidential ambitions may have fallen short, but his anti-vax beliefs are winning in many statehouses
By Matt Field
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign may be over. But the anti-vax movement has been notching wins in statehouses across the country.
AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet
By Walter Scheirer
AI-powered misinformation detectors—artificial intelligence tools that identify false or inaccurate online content—have emerged as a potential intervention for helping internet users understand the veracity of the content they view. However, the algorithms used to create these detectors are experimental and largely untested at the scale necessary to be effective on a social media platform.
To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself
By Sara Goudarzi
In 2023, an average of 2.5 local newspapers shut down each week. This year seems to be following a similar trend. With fewer professional journalists keeping watch over politicians and the process of voting—and an information l
It’s amazing what happens when you combine total lack of self-awareness with toxic amounts of liberalism. She should go make me a sandwich.
Why is it that these leftwingers, especially the women, when things turn against them, resort to spluttering obscenities? You see it, hear it everywhere on social media. They simply cannot express themselves like adults.
One witch-doctor gone, many thousands to go....
Translation: Go stare in the mirror for an hour, then head for the unemployment office.
A superb summary.
The greatest calumny is that Karen Helmet-head has exposed Springer Nature -- the ash heap of MacMillan Edu, Holtzbrinck, and Springer -- for what they are, EU marxist pleb trash. Licensing to SA and their 80 other garbage titles are practically given away to US education.
It could also be MENTAL ILLNESS!
There woke religious bubble just got burst :-).
GFY.
It must have been a real joy to have been around her on the night of November 5th!! 😂😂
Scientific American is an oxymoron........................
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