Viewpoint: Scientific American editor Laura Helmuth notorius for putting woke ideology ahead of science resigns under a cloud after a rant against Donald Trump

When magazines like Scientific American are run by ideologues producing biased dreck, it only makes it more difficult to defend the institution of science itself.

Laura Helmuth [recently] resigned as editor-in-chief of Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States.

[H]er departure was precipitated by a bilious Bluesky rant she posted after Donald Trump was reelected. In it, she accused her generation, Generation X, of being “full of fucking fascists,” complained about how sexist and racist her home state of Indiana was, and so on. “Fuck them to the moon and back,” she said of the dumb high school bullies supposedly celebrating Trump’s victory.

[P]erhaps the most infamous entry in this oeuvre came in September 2021: “Why the Term ‘JEDI’ Is Problematic for Describing Programs That Promote Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.” That article sternly informed readers that an acronym many of them had likely never heard of in the first place—JEDI, standing for “justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion”—ought to be avoided on social justice grounds. You see, in the Star Wars franchise, the Jedi “are a religious order of intergalactic police monks, prone to (white) saviorism and toxically masculine approaches to conflict resolution (violent duels with phallic lightsabers, gaslighting by means of “Jedi mind tricks,” etc.)”

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