Absolutely right, and why I killed my subscription to SA years ago. To equate as settled and well-defined a question as evolution with as amorphous and controversial an issue as human caused global climate change, or with an entirely political public policy question like national missile defense shows the poor quality of what passes for "science" at "Scientific American," and what passes for analysis on their editorial page.
To equate as settled and well-defined a question as evolution with as amorphous and controversial an issue as human caused global climate change, or with an entirely political public policy question like national missile defense
Note that they also were too cowardly to attempt to link those issues together in a serious defense of the charges of politicization of their magazine.
They took the vilely disingenous route of wrapping up that slander in an “April Fool’s” joke, so nobody can legitimately call them on it without looking like they “didn’t get it.”
I “got it” just fine. I would bet that a lot of their other conservative readers did as well.