Posted on 04/10/2020 8:15:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Nature magazine, which was founded in England in 1869, is considered a respectable publication. It published important scientific papers, including groundbreaking studies about nuclear fission, the neutron, pulsars, and the human genome. Nature was the outlet in which Watson and Crick published their discoveries about the structure of DNA.
From its inception, though, it was known for advancing a progressive political agenda. That’s why, in the early 20th century, it enthusiastically embraced eugenics, a wholly Progressive notion.
A century on, Nature still embraces Progressive crackpot ideas. In addition to promoting climate change “science,” it takes its marching orders from China. In its April edition, the editors have announced that China’s connection to COVID-19 must be sent into an Orwellian memory hole. Nature’s editors humbly apologize for ever having been so insensitive as to draw any connection between China and COVID-19:
When the World Health Organization (WHO) announced in February that the disease caused by the new coronavirus would be called COVID‑19, the name was quickly adopted by organizations involved in communicating public-health information. As well as naming the illness, the WHO was implicitly sending a reminder to those who had erroneously been associating the virus with Wuhan and with China in their news coverage— including Nature. That we did so was an error on our part, for which we take responsibility and apologize.
Nature doesn’t stop with apologizing for associating China with a disease that originated in China, that China hid from the world, that ran rampant in China, killing untold thousands of people, and that has overwhelmed the rest of the world, killing many thousands more and destroying Western economies. When you're a leftist, though, re-education demands more than an apology.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If it’s racism to associate the Chinese virus with China,
IT’S RACISM TO ASSOCIATE AFRICAN-AMERICANS WITH AFRICA.
To justify their caving to Chinese pressure about the virus’s origins, the editors say that “it’s clear that since the outbreak was first reported,” Asian people around the world have been the victims of racism. There’s no evidence of this kind of mass racism, and Nature’s editors make no effort to point to evidence. It’s enough that “it’s clear.”
Having abased themselves, scolded wrongdoers, and summoned up hordes of hypothetical victims, Nature’s editors get down to the real problem, which is the fact that Chinese students studying abroad will be going home:
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“Law-enforcement agencies say they are making investigation of hate crimes a high priority, but such inquiries might come too late for some, including many of the more than 700,000 Chinese undergraduate, master’s and PhD students studying at universities outside China. The majority are in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Many have returned home while their institutions are closed owing to lockdowns, and many might not return. Students are hesitating to come back, in part because of fears of continuing racism, along with uncertainty over the future of their courses and not knowing when international travel will resume.”
[END QUOTE]
Regarding the students heading home to China, the editors bemoan the loss of “a diverse campus body” and the disruption for the young Chinese scholars, but the words sound hollow. Here’s the real problem: Wherever they go, students from China pay full fare. In 2016-2017, international students from all over the world brought $37 billion to America. Of those students, 30% came from China.
That number may have dropped under the Trump presidency, with Chinese students shifting to England (home to Nature) as their preferred venue. Even without that increase, China was the biggest source of international students in Britain. In 2018, the BBC reported that, in addition to paying tuition fees (which British students don’t), international students added £20 billion to the British economy, with most of this money coming from China.
Oh, and I’m sure they support the natural event that pregnant women allow their children to live and be born.
And I’m sure they support that nature creates only males and females and are opposed to pretending otherwise.
And I’m sure they realize that a man inserting his **** into another man’s *** or ***** is not natural.
Maybe that consideration no longer holds true.
Money talks, truth woks
No maybe about it.
Sigh.
Soulmates of Communist China.
The potential for a hint of racism has replaced mass murder as the worst crime in human civilization.
New York City is suffering the worst of this contagion because its entire government was so concerned about racial sensitivity that first they attacked “racist” sensibilities before attempting to stem the rapid spread of the virus.
The mayor of New York City, and Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco, encouraged people to take part in Chinese New Year celebrations...but not to do so would have been racist.
thanks for posting the answer to the question posed in the headline
“Nature’s editors get down to the real problem, which is the fact that Chinese students studying abroad will be going home”
Why are leftist a$$holes so sensitive about this? My conclusion, is that China took an active part in concocting this virus and assuring its distribution.
Nature is almost as bad as Science.
BS. Need to send all Chicom students home. Why are we educating them? (Oh, yeah, I forgot: greedy universities). At the U. of Dayton before I left, they had an active China campus.
This small little midwestern school had a campus in CHINA??!
It’s a shame that PC has wrecked so many formerly respectable old magazines. Scientific American and National Geographic come to mind. The feminization of everything continues apace.
You can always pick out the liberal because they lie about everything.
I see wok you did there.
The virtue signalers enabled the early spread of this pandemic.
FACT.
Wuhan is where this originated.
FACT.
The Communist Chinese government lied about it.
So did the WHO.
January 14 they told the world there was no risk of human to human transmission.
FACT.
They should all go home.
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