Scientific American Retracts Anti-Israel Opinion Piece After Criticism

New York Post ^ | June 26, 2021 | Jon Levine

[nickcarraway]

Scientific American found itself taking heat this month after the scholarly, 176-year-old magazine published an opinion piece titled “Health Care Workers Call for Support of Palestinians.”

The screechy diatribe accused Israel of “vaccine apartheid” and “war crimes” among other alleged abuses. The piece blasted “Israeli settler colonial rule” and called on US healthcare and academic institutions to condemn “long-standing oppression” against the Palestinians and adopt the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign against the country.

The piece was written by Harvard University research fellows Osaid H. K. Alser and Asmaa Rimawi; Seattle Children’s Hospital Dr. Sabreen Akhter; Mayo Clinic Dr. Nusheen Ameenuddin, Harvard med students Anand Chukka and Qaali Hussein; Arizona trauma surgeon Ariän El-Taher; and Bryan Leyva, an “AfroLatinx Scholar-Activist from the “Dakota Territory.”

[Kriggerel]

Sounds like they’re proposing a Final Solution.

[Paladin2]

SA was always pretty much a Popular Science mag rather than a scholarly journal.

For decades now it has become a Woke Joke.

[blam]

I quit PC Scientific American quite a few years ago. No more BS from them.

[Secret Agent Man]

The piece has zero to do with science if its about Israel.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

At least they have dropped the façade of having anything to do with science.

[PIF]

Looks like the authors of the hit piece are unbiased muslims :)

[ifinnegan]

“SA was always pretty much a Popular Science mag rather than a scholarly journal.”

Yes. It was never a scholarly journal. It did have experts in their field write at a high level for a popular audience.

“For decades now it has become a Woke Joke.”

Yes. It has been decades.

I guess they may every once in a while publish a good article but I don’t look at it ever anymore to know.

The covers indicate it’s pop-sci hipster interest crap mostly.

[Leaning Right]

> Scientific American found itself taking heat this month after the scholarly, 176-year-old magazine published an opinion piece... >

Today’s Scientific American...scholarly?

[HKMk23]

It’s about the money; they’re otherwise NOT even sorry.

They used to be OK; liked their sections on mathematics. Back in the late 1980’s they even published an article conveying some research suggesting that ozone alarmism might be ill-founded because comparatively massive chlorofluorocarbon molecules like Freon could not diffuse into the upper atmosphere in anything like the concentrations necessary to wreak the damage alleged.

By the time Algore came along though, their descent into the sociopolitical abyss of global warming was already underway, and they had become a nearly unreadable puppy training tool.

[KarlInOhio]

I didn't see the original article. Did they accuse Israel of not vaccinating Israeli citizens who are Arabs? Arabs in the regions captured during the Wars of Arab Aggression? Or were the authors crying about the "Palestinian" self-misgoverned areas in Gaza and the West Bank where according to the Oslo Accord the local Arabs took control of health care - probably so they could load car bombs up with hypodermic needles.

[Rummyfan]

The piece was written by Harvard University research fellows Osaid H. K. Alser and Asmaa Rimawi; Seattle Children’s Hospital Dr. Sabreen Akhter; Mayo Clinic Dr. Nusheen Ameenuddin, Harvard med students Anand Chukka and Qaali Hussein; Arizona trauma surgeon Ariän El-Taher; and Bryan Leyva, an “AfroLatinx Scholar-Activist from the “Dakota Territory.”

I'm sure there was no anti-Semitism or Jew hatred from that group. /sarcasm

I sometimes think, no matter how intelligent or well-educated an Arab is, the illogical anti-Semitism and Jew hatred is just a millimeter below the surface.

Shame on Scientific American.

[Rummyfan]

The screechy diatribe accused Israel of “vaccine apartheid” and “war crimes” among other alleged abuses.

Gosh, why wasn't the PA doing its own vaccine distribution program?!

[5th MEB]

That’s why I CANCELED my subscription in 1972!

[devere]

Just another famous establishment publication that used to be great but now is less than worthless. There are so many.

[KC_Conspirator]

It is not longer Scientific, nor American.

[Paladin2]

Well put...

[SunkenCiv]

I can't think of a comment that I wouldn't have to end, "but I mean that in the nicest possible way."

[Robert A Cook PE]

You noticed the authors’ names and allegiances as well, eh? 8<)
/sarcastic prejudices against Israel

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

A big part of the “Palestinain” propaganda machine has been for 40 years getting people into academic positions for the sole purpose of using those professional publications and conferences to present fabrications about Israel. They write textbooks about the middle east and get them published because publishers are happy to publish and sell books. Everyone should look closely at who is writing this garbage. They do it under cover of academe.