Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science

I notice there has been a mixing of expert/academic opinion with advocacy, and this is an example of that. But expertise and advocacy are important but different things.

They don't seem mutually exclusive to me. I would think an issue would only arise if one lets their advocacy jeopardize their expert judgement.

I think Jonathan Kanter lays it out much better than I can here, when it comes to research into monopoly

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