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Scientific American Goes Woke

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28 pointsleephillips19 comments

I still subscribe - I don't know why they do so many politically-inflected articles these days. Always just skip to the harder-science pieces, especially physics, astrophysics, deep human history, the body, animal behavior, genetics etc. which are so often a delight.

keep those flowing please!

>why

Laura Helmuth. https://slate.com/technology/2014/12/james-watson-selling-no...

The Scientific American lost its way about 10 years ago when science gave way to politics. I stopped reading it and buying it back then.

Oh no, not virtue signalling.

Let's all be impressed with how this anonymous stranger is too good for a magazine. Surely this reflects on the magazine.

Please don't break the site guidelines like this. We've had to ask you that before. We ban accounts that keep doing it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Not at all. You can read it that way if you want.

Scientific American is a very expensive magazine. I'm not going to spend my money on a magazine that isn't 'fit for purpose'. I want articles on science, not on politics.

A substack piece with woke in the subject matter, this should be in no-way inflammatory

It's a level, matter-of-fact piece with no spinning or twisting.

> One may be forgiven for thinking that anyone who sees in a lightsaber duel clashing penises has perhaps been reading too much Freud…or watching too much three-way porn.

Disagree.

It's fair critique of the quoted passage above.

You might be surprised. It seems worth a read.

Well written and sadly confirmatory of the disaster that I've observed at S. A. I subscribed for years as a youth and young adult, but eventually let my subscription lapse as more and more space was diverted from science to dull treatments of politics.

Rambling is well written now?

If it confirms one's pre-existing bias, the bitterest pill is sweet.

Does that imply they could've been booted off Twitter and/or Medium, or does Substack offer more money?

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