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Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science

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473 points Bostonian | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 22:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.606s | source
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anonfordays ◴[19 Nov 24 16:58 UTC] No.42185578[source]▶
Does the following phenomenon have a name?

Open an article about the detrimental politicization of something, click to the social media profile of the offender and you know with high certainty the exact kind of poster they are and posts they make/repost.

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1. 4bpp ◴[19 Nov 24 19:13 UTC] No.42187019[source]▶
This sounds like what you would expect to see if everything subject to politicisation is politicised in a direction opposed by the same "kind of poster". I imagine you could observe the same sort of predictability if you looked at the social media profiles of anyone writing an article that politicization of something is actually unproblematic or good.

When it is this easy to delineate and stereotype those for and those against a measure, the appropriate word is polarisation.