Posted on 06/14/2021 7:28:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For over 175 years, the magazine Scientific American has bragged that it covers
the advances in research and discovery that are changing our understanding of the world and shaping our lives. (snip) Authoritative, engaging features, news, opinion and multimedia stories from journalists and expert authors — including more than 200 Nobel Prize winners — provide need-to-know coverage, insights and illumination of the most important developments at the intersection of science and society.
However, around six years ago, the American segment of the publication changed, as it was purchased by a private German-British conglomerate, Springer Nature, which has affiliates and publications worldwide. And international controversies to go along with its international nature, such as highly credible accusations of succumbing to demands for censorship from communist China against research from scientists in Tibet and independent Taiwan.
Not very scientific.
Slightly over a year and a half later, Scientific American's descent into hate-filled politics unsuccessfully disguised as science is total, its 175-year-old reputation as a reliable scientific publication totally trashed, with barely hope for recovery. A few weeks ago, they published a lying screed, "Health Care Workers Call for Support of Palestinians," which contained lying propaganda, altered photographs, and no facts. The authors qualify as "scientists" worthy of publication in Scientific (sic) American (sic!) because they "are health care workers (HCWs) and faculty from around the world."
The snarky, weasely justification the editors offered for its appearance...
Scientific American publishes opinion and analysis articles from a variety of viewpoints. As is the case with all opinion articles, the views expressed here do not necessarily represent those of Scientific American.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
For those genuine scientists and science-lovers who are puzzled by the recent degrading politicization of their once interesting magazine and want facts on the situation rather than Hamas terrorist propaganda, the venerable and factual Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), as usual, provides them.
Everything is subject to subversion, and $$$ usually does the trick.
Climate Change does have one useful feature: it easily reveals a source as compromised if they are pushing this Con. Scientific American is pushing this Con.
I quit reading it back in 2001 when they veered left.
I seem to recall when I first joined FR almost 20 years ago that this magazine had fallen already. Like National Geographic and other media they were publishing global warming propaganda. This latest bit of agit/prop is no surprise.
I have noticed this change. It is now a highly political magazine rather than a review or summary of scientific publications.
SA was lost more than 20 years ago as they embraced Gorebal Warning as an existential threat to the Universe.
ACS and AAAS have also veered to the left.
“Science!”
>>A few weeks ago, they published a lying screed, “Health Care Workers Call for Support of Palestinians,” which contained lying propaganda, altered photographs, and no facts.
When I was a kid, we had a subscription to SA. I loved doing the experiments on the back page. Now, wouldn’t have it in the house. It’s nothing more than a political hack rag with a tinge of science.
Yes. It may still have been "American" but the magazine was not Science for a long, long time.
It’s been decades since Scientific American was interesting for a general audience. They have long since fallen under the spell of academic nonsense.
Two things I miss these days, Scientific American, and Readers Digest, both casualties of the culture war.
I was a subscriber to Scientific American for many years. Many articles were far above my level of understanding. It was, as far as I knew, the ultimate authority on science.
Around 6-7 years ago I subscribed again, thinking that it was the same trusty magazine that I knew and respected. What a surprise! Every article had a politically correct slant. The contributing authors were no longer written by seasoned, respected scientists. The spectrum of authors was mostly certifiably “diverse.”
The final blow was their transition to political advocacy, trashing Trump. It’s become a useless rag. Goodbye Scientific American.
I quit reading it back in 2001 when they veered left.
Thanks
That's when they went off the rails, for me. They gave a lot of pages to Kostis Tsipis and other SDI critics during the Reagan administration. Over time, they became more and more political and less and less about science.
They were once such a great magazine. There has never been anything like Scientific American, nothing took their place when they engaged with the MSM political narrative.
The left has taken control of every institution.
I can’t think of one they don’t control.
Gramsci must be feeling rather smug in his grave to see how well his long march through the institutions has worked.
The sci-fi magazine OMNI had more cred than the last 20 years of SA.
I view it as leftist zombies taking over these institutions.
They suck the life out of them, and then the institutions get bloated and explode in a bloody stinky mess.
“I quit reading it back in 2001 when they veered left.”
My second FR join up date is Aug 4, 2000.
I had been thinking about DCing this subscription and many others due to FR book reports that exposed this left wing publication.
We had been saving my old copies for one of our 30 something sons and his children after they learned how to read. It had been one of his favorites while growing up.
That son with two engineering degrees, informed me that this mag was now left wing and not scientific for over a couple of years. He said to trash the copies or give them to the local library.
So we cancelled the subscription. Our local library gladly took the copies. The same library, later refused to accept Thomas Sowell books a little later on.
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