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Prestigious US science journal to back Biden in first endorsement in 175-year history
UK Guardian via MSN ^ | 09/16/2020 | Martin Belam

Posted on 09/16/2020 5:52:29 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

In a break with its 175-year tradition, the prestigious US magazine Scientific American has for the first time endorsed a candidate in a US presidential election – the Democratic party nominee, Joe Biden.

The magazine has taken the line because, it says, “Donald Trump has badly damaged the US and its people – because he rejects evidence and science.”

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To: Terry L Smith

Scientific American, People Magazine, National Geographic, The Inquirer . . . who can tell the difference anymore?


21 posted on 09/16/2020 6:05:38 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: Kid Shelleen

“Prestigious ... journal”

That’s funny. SA was always for nonprofessional readers.

And it jumped the shark decades ago anyway.

I subscribed for a long time.


22 posted on 09/16/2020 6:09:07 AM PDT by old-ager (anti-new-ager)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Nothing new. Back during the 1996 election, I was a subscriber to Astronomy magazine a magazine I loved. In the middle of an article, an astronomer went off on a tangent on how he listened to Death Metal, the kind of music Bob Dole wanted to ban. Never mind that Bob Dole probably had no idea what Death Metal was. Totally irrelevant to the article, put in only for partisan purposes. I cancelled my subscription.


23 posted on 09/16/2020 6:09:40 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (The jolly, candy-like button!)
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To: rightwingcrazy
It continues to be a magazine, though; I’ll give you that.

Not even that, it's a Ragazine. They are in a category shared with Newsweak and Slime.

24 posted on 09/16/2020 6:12:53 AM PDT by C210N
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To: Kid Shelleen

“Prestigious US magazine Scientific American”? Seriously? SA has been a political hack mag for decades...


25 posted on 09/16/2020 6:14:08 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: RJS1950

Yeah me too. Been reading it since the 70’s. It’s lost its objectivity.


26 posted on 09/16/2020 6:14:18 AM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: Kid Shelleen

used to be a good magazine until they embraced the man-made climate change hoax. Since then... well, science isn’t about consensus. Its about empirical evidence, proposing a theory, gathering evidence, making a hypothesis, and detailing the logic of your conclusions. (i think i may have that order a bit mixed up) After that you’re supposed to send it for peer review and your peers are supposed to tear your arguments apart or validate them. There is never any consensus involved. So a hard science magazine that embraces such is no longer a hard science magazine, its a propaganda magazine.


27 posted on 09/16/2020 6:14:37 AM PDT by NicoDon
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To: Kid Shelleen

”Prestigious US science journal”

Uh, what? That’s not what I think of when I think Scientific American. And I’m not saying that from a political angle. It’s a popular/general science magazine that doesn’t water down the science as much as other publications.


28 posted on 09/16/2020 6:16:44 AM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I dropped my subscription to SA 20 years ago when they started going full libtard.

Never go full libtard.


29 posted on 09/16/2020 6:17:12 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Kid Shelleen

science? the left has been rejecting “science” for decades that proves that life starts at conception!


30 posted on 09/16/2020 6:19:10 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Kid Shelleen

Scientific American is not American. It’s owned by a UK and Germany based conglomerate, Springer Nature and heavily influenced by China.


31 posted on 09/16/2020 6:19:53 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Kid Shelleen

Once prestigious perhaps, but no longer the case. Purely political now. Science has been eliminated.


32 posted on 09/16/2020 6:21:07 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Kid Shelleen

I read “prestigious scientific journal” and immediately thought of the Lancet. Scientific American is a general audience magazine that has grown increasingly unserious.


33 posted on 09/16/2020 6:21:36 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (If by unfit you mean not a lizard person collaborating with Nazis with Chinese characteristics)
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To: Kid Shelleen

many scientists REJECT the nonsense of ScientificAmerican
which is apparently NEITHER, but an organ of
the usual suspects.

How we once respected Scientific American
which has devolved to Pseudoscientic Seditionist BS.


34 posted on 09/16/2020 6:23:03 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: Terry L Smith

‘Scientific’ ‘American’ has neither been truly scientific, nor apolitical, and definitely not American, since the 1990’s!!
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS IS TRUE
Subscribed for my years in engineering school and after. When it started replacing SCIENCE with conjecture and PC-talk, the subscription and reading it were dropped.


35 posted on 09/16/2020 6:23:51 AM PDT by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Its a pretty magazine but its sort of in the same category as Nat Geo only without the gorgeous photography. Its glossy, its slick, its pitched to a general audience, and I’d lose points on a paper if I used it as a source.


36 posted on 09/16/2020 6:24:40 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (If by unfit you mean not a lizard person collaborating with Nazis with Chinese characteristics)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Science is good.

Scientists are corrupt.


37 posted on 09/16/2020 6:26:29 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

When did Scientific American become a journal?


38 posted on 09/16/2020 6:26:41 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Kid Shelleen

They became political decades ago. There is the case of Forrest Mims. American Scientific LOVED him until.....they discovered he was a CHRISTIAN!! And he was.....a CREATIONIST!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Mims


39 posted on 09/16/2020 6:27:08 AM PDT by johnnygeneric (Blocked website)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Of course. Universities are communist and any science organization is full of university graduates.

It’s why I canceled all subscriptions and memberships and fellowships in all industry organizations; IEEE, ACM, NSF, SA, etc.


40 posted on 09/16/2020 6:27:32 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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