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Episode: With Endorsement Of Kamala Harris, Scientific American Magazine Injects Politics & Bias Into Science w/ Dr. Marty Makary & Dr. Brian Hooker
Description: “We must protect science from politics!” science journalists shouted from 2017 to 2021. Then yesterday, the editors of Scientific American – the oldest ‘continuously published magazine’ in the USA, with contributors including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla – endorsed their second presidential candidate in the publication’s 179-year history: Kamala Harris.Their first endorsement? Joe Biden in 2020.The publication had only a few positive words about the previous administration and “Operation Warp Speed, which developed effective COVID vaccines extremely quickly.” Should science publications stay out of politics – and how can scientists rebuild their credibility as nonpartisan, unbiased truth seekers?For one night o...