I wonder if the mess at SciAm has influenced the other big “science” mags. The latest NewScientist, published on Nov 16, seems to avoid politics entirely. There’s a heapin helpin of Climate nonsense, but nothing at all about populists or authoritarians or fascists or “low-intelligence” peasants or Trump or Brexit.
Measuring a nonbark is always tricky; one issue doesn’t necessarily mean much. I notice the Weather Bureau’s twitter feed also hasn’t changed its tone since the “election”. In 2017 they made a point of hitting the Climate nonsense hard as “rebellion” against the horrible populists. The politics went away during Biden’s admin, and hasn’t returned yet.
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