ISAIAH HANKEL: The resignation of Scientific American’s editor-in-chief is great for humanity

ISAIAH HANKEL: The resignation of Scientific American’s editor-in-chief is great for humanity

Once revered for presenting science as a neutral and evidence-based pursuit, the publication became mired in ideological bias under the leadership of the now former Editor-in-Chief, Laura Helmuth.

Laura Helmuth: An Unscientific American.The Editor-in-Chief’s departure from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology.

An excellent piece by Michael Shermer for Quillette, to which I’ve long subscribed. People who enjoy the article will surely also enjoy an article published by William Collins (a Cambridge university-educated physicist, later an engineer) some years ago, Goodbye New Scientist. Of course there are dangers of mixing ANY facts with ideology, and I shall be commenting as such on the Quillette piece. —————————- If you’d like email notifications of o…

How Scientific American's Departing Editor Helped Degrade Science - 3 Quarks Daily

Jesse Singal at Reason: When Scientific American was bad under Helmuth, it was really bad. For example, did you know that “Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy“? Or that the normal distribution—a vital and basic statistical concept—is inherently suspect? No, really: Three days after the legendary biologist and author E.O. Wilson died, SciAm published a surreal hit piece about him in which the author lamented “his dangerous ideas on w…