Scientific American’s Transgenderism Issue Only Delegitimizes Science

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Scientific American’s Transgenderism Issue Only Delegitimizes Science
•August 28, 2017
 

If you need proof that the line between science and politics has been irrevocably erased, look no further than the September edition of Scientific American. In a special issue entitled “Sex and Gender,” the magazine purloins the progressive political agenda and attempts to give it a scientific mooring even when none exists. It represents a wholesale retreat from the principle that science should be apolitical, further jeopardizing the integrity of the scientific establishment and potentially inflicting real harm as it chooses to promote identity politics over solid science. SA’s opening salvo is an editorial with the headline, “Why the New Science of Sex & Gender Matters for Everyone.” The piece is astonishing not just because it’s poorly written and ill-conceived—one would expect more from such smart people—but also because it offers no evidence to back up its claim there is “new science” on sex and gender.

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[Free Vulcan]

Science and the law both. If I can declare to be something I'm not, and be allowed to do it, laws are now meaningless.

[The_Reader_David]

SA has been politicized for years, so this is nothing new.  What's surprising is that Yahoo! News, which is generally very left-leaning is criticizing anyone for hewing to one of the left's current enthusiasms.

[Joe Wooten]

SA was converged by the lefties decades ago, as witness their regular screeds back in the 80's about unilateral nuclear disarmament. They were also in on the ground floor of the global warming scam in the late 80's.