Thanks Libloather. Good riddance to the bigoted shill. To the four science ping lists.
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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I cancelled my subscriptions to both magazines in the late 1990s. Same for Skeptical Inquirer magazine. When I got my first real job in the late 1970s, I spent part of my small take home pay for subscriptions to all three magazines. Everything was fine for a number of years, but then all three magazines started belittling and berating anyone who offered any pushback on their increasingly left wing viewpoints. I was sad to see them go down that path, especially Scientific American.
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Laura Helmuth announced her resignation as editor-in-chief of the Scientific American on Thursday after facing backlash for comments she made on Bluesky about the 2024 election and voters.
‘’Helmuth’s decision comes shortly after she was criticized for social media posts about the Nov. 5 election. In a series of Bluesky posts, which were later deleted, Helmuth wrote that “my Gen X is so full of f-—ing fascists.” In another, she wrote, “Solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high school classmates are celebrating early results because f—k them to the moon and back...”
There has been nothing “scientific” about this lefty rag for decades.
Thanks Libloather. Good riddance to the bigoted shill. To the four science ping lists.
Maybe they can get back to being Scientific and American rather than Political and Globalist.
I was just checking to see if this article was already posted.
I canceled my subscription 20, 30? years ago. As a young amateur science seeker, I could not wait for each issue to come out. Some of the articles were above my head, but that just made me search and learn (what a concept!).
Looong before wokeness, they drifted into the politically correct universe, which had nothing to do with anything real.
I also was privileged to participate in some Mayan excavation in Belize. This was before I learned that you cannot really pay a mortgage, or any other bill, with archeology. When that PhD anthropologist stated to Riley Gaines that one cannot determine the gender of the a skeleton, everyone around him laughed. Go woke, and the PhD turns into Piled Higher & Deeper.
#METOO. I cancelled my subscription. I should thank her for the reminder.
Though she deleted her posts, a screenshot was shared on X Tuesday, with the user asking: “Does the editor-in-chief of Scientific American seem like someone who is entirely dedicated to uncompromising scientific integrity? Or does she seem like a political activist who has taken over a scientific institution?”
The post caught the attention of the platform’s owner, vocal Trump supporter Elon Musk, who reacted to Helmuth’s tirade and commented, “The latter.”
Helmuth has a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California, Berkeley, and attended the University of California, Santa Cruz’s science communication program, according to the magazine’s website.
Studies of patients with cognitive deficits due to brain lesions constitute an important aspect of cognitive neuroscience. The damages in lesioned brains provide a comparable starting point on regards to healthy and fully functioning brains. These damages change the neural circuits in the brain and cause it to malfunction during basic cognitive processes, such as memory or learning. People have learning disabilities and such damage, can be compared with how the healthy neural circuits are functioning, and possibly draw conclusions about the basis of the affected cognitive processes. Some examples of learning disabilities in the brain include places in Wernicke’s area, the left side of the temporal lobe, and Broca’s area close to the frontal lobe.[3]
One of the predecessors to cognitive neuroscience was phrenology, a pseudoscientific approach that claimed that behavior could be determined by the shape of the scalp.
Of course, nothing shows professional conduct quite like a profanity and hate-filled rant on social media...
Yeah, she really showed us.
Bed headboard CTE from her college days...
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