The right-wing owners of Scientific American, once the pillar of science writing, have ruined the publication's content and reputation. An incredibly sad situation: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/scientific-american-springer-nature-trump/
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@dangillmor Americans have ceased being scientific.
I noticed the change after subscribing to them in instagram.
Very sad. Yet another publication zombified.
@dangillmor ...das war auch deren Aufgabe...mit Wissenschaft hatten diese Menschen nichts zu tun...
I think he would be the first to agree that the consolidation of publications into fewer and fewer hands into media empires has been an unalloyed disaster.
Voting the Republicans auto office isn’t enough. There must be immediate aggressive antitrust applied to all large corporations. Tech and media being the highest priority right now.
@dangillmor kinda dubious estimate of their previous status, but ok.
@dangillmor interesting, I'd been wondering why S.A. had seemed to turn political and rightward. I remember when they fired their editor Laura Helmuth (who is here in the fediverse)... it seemed out of character for them. Now it makes more sense. Very sad. 😥
@dangillmor it was ruined in 1995. This is not news. Until 8-9/years ago American Scientist (from the Sigma Xi society), had the torch for well written cross science communication, but then...
Stupidification continues...
@dangillmor Everything is political.
@dangillmor This quote is pure gold: “And if they saw the word ‘Trump, they were wetting their fucking lederhosen.”
@dangillmor started to read the linked article but the advertising made it impossible to continue.