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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: 0.229s | source
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henearkr ◴[19 Nov 24 18:26 UTC] No.42186615[source]▶
This whole debate is surrealist.

Bigotry and intolerance are fundamentally irrational and illogical, so the so-called "left-bias" of science is just science being itself.

Now the comments in this HN page and the reason.com article are completely ignoring that, and only considering everything through a political filter.

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1. Sniffnoy ◴[19 Nov 24 20:14 UTC] No.42187607[source]▶
I don't think this applies to the particular problems being discussed. Certainly it's irrational to discriminate (as you say in a related comment), but the examples discussed in the article are not cases of Scientific American simply declaring that principle, but rather making other errors, or proclaiming a rather different political point of view.

(If you think the "social justice" movement is simply about -- or even supports -- the nondiscrimination principle you mention in a related comment, you are mistaken! And if you support it because you support that principle, I recommend looking more into what the SJers actually believe, because you may find that you're not in as close agreement with them as you assumed you were...)