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Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science

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473 points Bostonian | 2 comments | 18 Nov 24 22:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.485s | source
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insane_dreamer ◴[19 Nov 24 01:09 UTC] No.42179137[source]▶
I clicked on the links of the articles linked to by the author as "egregious" examples of Helmuth's editorial bias, and they're both clearly labeled _OPINION_. (Opinion articles are not scientific articles because they are __opinion__.)

May need to choose some better examples if the author wants to support his point.

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1. leereeves ◴[19 Nov 24 02:12 UTC] No.42179479[source]▶
"Editorial bias" and "opinion article" aren't mutually exclusive.

Is there bias in what opinions SciAm chooses to print?

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2. insane_dreamer ◴[19 Nov 24 14:35 UTC] No.42183858[source]▶
If that was the point the original article was trying to make then they should have provided evidence of that, rather than selecting a couple opinion articles to try to build a case for their own very clear ideological leanings.

There may or may not be editorial bias at SciAm -- no idea since I don't read it, and not really interested either way -- but that article was a shoddy piece.