[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Its been decades since SciAm was readable. It’s sad. Where I work I have access digitized back issues going back to at least 1984 (the furthest I’ve looked) and difference is striking. The articles were informative and interesting, the material engaging. Occasionally, almost by accident SciAm will have something interesting, but it is far too politicized and esoteric these days, and aimed at the professorate and not the mass audience.

Politic correctness is the death of intellectual curiosity and scholarship.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

I have not taken a university course for a while. What are they teaching in biology classes today? The description of courses they publish does not help much. When the wokesters first started invading the universities, the hard sciences were safer from the lunacy.

Remember when senators asked Ketanji Brown Jackson what a woman was? Yes, ideally politics would not corrupt science, but I don't think that is a safe assumption.

NYU propaganda: "Essentialism is a widespread, but scientifically inaccurate, view rooted in the idea that there is a genetic “essence” that makes women and men the way they are."