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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: 0.216s | source
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Bhilai ◴[19 Nov 24 15:47 UTC] No.42184762[source]▶
Don't be mistaken, Science and politics are intertwined and have been for a long time. Talk to any lead scientist who has to secure funding for their project and they ll tell you how its all political. So I dont see a problem with science magazine editors taking a political stance.

The Right tends to harp on this purist view from time to time while ignoring their own house of glass. For them, it's ok for for example, WSJ to be a completely biased in one direction. They dont complain about skewed viewpoints then. They will also defend famous podcasters for providing a platform pseudo science people with agendas. But as soon as a science magazine editor takes a stand, they flip out.

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1. chrisbrandow ◴[19 Nov 24 20:03 UTC] No.42187514[source]▶
only a problem when it leads to publishing obviously false statements and never correcting them, such as the "The so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard that the rest of us can be accurately measured".