Posted on 09/16/2020 5:52:29 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Well they’re really, really smart, so I’d better do what they say. Jagoffs
I used to have a subscription to Scientific American for many years, and cancelled it near the end of the Nineties when I realized they were going full bore into Man-caused global warming and other Leftist pap.
I do believe that was the first time I really altered the use pattern of something I had already purchased, and done so for political reasons.
SA was completely hijacked by leftists years ago. Prestigious no longer applies.A shame because there was a time when it was among the best
Calling Scientific American prestigious is like calling my ex-mother-in-law sexy. lol
Climate chance and Wuhan flu hysteria follow the science. Garbage science.
I always enjoyed reading scientific American back in the day, because of the way they presented certain types of subjects. I have never enjoyed reading technical journals (in my case medical ones) but I appreciated the difference in the way scientific American presented Information to their readers.
It was admittedly a hybrid of “popular mechanics” and a real technical journal, but I enjoyed it.
It really started to grate on me though, when they went full liberal. That was it for me.
Scientology? Scientific TOTALITARIANISM appeals to many totalitarians.
Military/Media/Medical/Pharmaceutical/Eugenicist/Industrial COMPLEX alert.
Truth--truth for its own sake--and the unimpeded pursuit of truth--is the foundation of the scientific method and of Western Civilisation.
Contempt for truth is the evil most fundamental to the decadence of Western Civilisation.
I’ve read it on and off for over 40 years. The last few times I looked at it, they were pushing AGW hard and our only salvation was to go to wind and solar power. That was a few years ago and haven’t read is since. The same with Science News. All pushing an agenda without any objective consideration for alternative views.
As a long time subscriber (early 1960s) and former contributor to SciAm (early '90s) I stopped subscribing when The Amateur Scientist disappeared.
I just got the current issue of Sky & Telescope in the mail and the editorial had an endorsement of Black Lives Matter. They nearly went belly-up but the American Astronomical Society acquired the magazine. It seems that the physics organizations have been busy selling out.
Lysenko science?
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Good Grief - glad I gave up on that rag 50 years ago
It really trended towards politics over science at the beginning of Reagan’s second term.
I stopped buying it at that point.
Plus, Gardener was gone, too.
It’s good that the enemies of America continue to expose themselves.
Evidence that scientists are politically motivated people too.
Scientific American has leaned left for more than half a century. Back in the early ‘70’s Dr. William R. Van Cleave, one of my professors at the University of Southern California called it “Unscientific American” for siding with the Left on issues such as arms control and missile defense.
It is NOT “prestigious” and has nor been so for many decades. It long ago descended into “pop” science and politically correct science.
I used to subscribe to that magazine and collected every copy. Then sometime in the 1980s I canceled my subscription and sometime during the 1980s I quit buying it at the newsstand; never buying it again. I guess in order to fill pages and satisfy advertisers, the scientific rigor of the editors kept getting weaker and weaker.
So much for “science”.
Wow!
“Science Digest” was always a better read, anyway.
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