SHE is absolutely right "Trump's supporters [are] "the meanest, dumbest, most bigoted" individuals celebrating his election night victory over Vice President Harris.
and "her generation is "so full of f****** fascists." Shame she left - we are letting the ignorant rule.
She made the classic mistake a woman in a leadership position can never make - she spoke her mind candidly and without encasing her opinion within an apology sandwich (at the time). Our idiocracy has no time for a woman’s unfiltered opinion.
I have nowhere near the status of Laura Helmuth, I was just a PhD virologist and molecular biologist during my career, but I will admit here to shredding my diplomas in disgust during the first Trump administration after all of the bullying I received as a virologist during the COVID pandemic.
The most pertinent comment I read was that "Scientific American" had really become just "American". Science had become secondary to ideology.
The pseudoscience nonsense published on trans rights were disgraceful.
nonsense , is that big , yes .. I know transgenders happy w their life .. who the heck I am , you or any ignorant religious bigots, to tell them otherwise ? 🤔😵💫
There is no such thing as "science journalism." There is only science. Her "journalism" morphed into "activism," and her "activism" morphed into hysteria and hate. That's what doomed her career, and thank God (and Trump) for that !!
This is a massive loss. I've loved how SciAm fearlessly pointed out the facts behind controversial topics like gender, weight and mental health.
I hope the team there does not lose their way.
I didn't know that Laura Helmuth was stepping down for political reasons - because she was "canceled" for being too progressive. I wish to Gd she hadn't stepped down - it's a real loss, and, I fear, the first of far too many losses we progressives will face in the coming years.
She seems a bit mean and not very open minded? I find it weird when a magazine about science ventures into telling people how to vote. Very authoritarian tbh.
Is it a reasonable position for an editor of a prestigious journal to say half the country is fascist?
Nonsense. As a fellow GenXer, she was dead right about how disappointing people from our generation were in this election. They voted for a man who left Congress to be murdered by a mob. He conspired to overthrow the vote. That’s pretty textbook fascist
I'm not on Twitter anymore so I missed that she was hounded out of her job by Musk et al., I didn't realize that's why she left. I'm just sick about this. The world is headed in a terrible direction and people like Laura are not just wanted but necessary.
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and "her generation is "so full of f****** fascists." Shame she left - we are letting the ignorant rule.
The pseudoscience nonsense published on trans rights were disgraceful.
I hope the team there does not lose their way.
Is it a reasonable position for an editor of a prestigious journal to say half the country is fascist?
Half the country's voters did vote for a science-denying rapist and convicted felon with profoundly fascist tendencies, though.
There's nothing open-minded about pretending that didn't just happen.
Condolences if you knew them.
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