{"id":22904,"date":"2023-03-25T20:48:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T00:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=22904"},"modified":"2023-03-26T09:15:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T13:15:55","slug":"guest-contributor-tomd-25mar2023-scientific-america-goes-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/25\/guest-contributor-tomd-25mar2023-scientific-america-goes-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Contributor – TomD – 25MAR2023 – Scientific American Goes Woke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did a quick google (Laura Helmuth<\/a>) and found she\u2019s chief editor of Scientific American. That would be hard to believe if SA hadn\u2019t been totally co-opted 20 or so years ago. I hate it too, I subscribed to SA for decades and absolutely devoured every issue. I remember the issue with the article on the Supernova of 1987 in the Great Crab Nebula. Whoever wrote it did a great job, it was exciting, mesmerizing, illuminating. Back then, the basis of the magazine was purely science<\/p>\n

I watched politics and what is now called wokeism creep in. There was an editor change, don\u2019t remember the names now, but that opened the gates. SA hired a new columnist (again don\u2019t remember the name), who on his 2nd column, stated flatly that the verdict of history was now in and the political organizing system of the future was clear and that was socialism.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah? That was it for SA for me. Now you don\u2019t know if any particular article is true or an outright lie intended to mislead you to believe in some woke bulls***t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did a quick google (Laura Helmuth) and found she\u2019s chief editor of Scientific American. 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