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Scientific American chief editor Laura Helmuth apologized Friday for her utterly classless Election Night rants against Donald Trump and his voters. It’s a start, but a lot of self-examination need…

Friday for her utterly classless Election Night rants against Donald Trump and his voters. It’s a start, but a lot of self-examination needs to follow.Her expletive-filled posts were plain embarrassing, e.

g.: “Solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because f–k them to the moon and back.”Helmuth vented at least three times on Bluesky , blaring her unprofessional lack of scientific detachment. Then again, her mag endorsed Kamala Harris after breaking its 175-year streak of neutrality in 2020 to endorse Joe Biden — a clear sign it’s falling into the same extreme partisanship as most old-school media.How my party lost me, Dems must return to normalcy and other commentary Indeed, a host of actual science journals — Nature, the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine — endorsed Biden in 2020.All this virtue-signaling pleases the editors, but harms the institutions’ brands: If they can’t resist playing politics in public, what might they be doing behind the scenes when it comes to science? Nature went so far as to call Trump — who gave us Operation Warp Speed, and its life-saving COVID vaccines — “anti-science.” Fact is, the ideological insistence on calling science “settled” on everything from climate change to the wisdom of transing minors, is itself profoundlyAt this point, all these “science” journalists now need to prove that they have any real clue what science is actually about.Hackers are targeting people who type these six words into their computerKevin Federline caught off guard by Britney Spears’ reconciliation with son Jayden: ‘News’ to him

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