The re-election of Donald Trump earlier this month provoked predictable outrage from the usual Chicken Little celebrities, politicians and activists. Mainstream-media outlets, which long ago abandoned any objectivity in their reporting of Trump, have reacted with unbridled hysteria. What might have been more surprising to some, however, was the meltdown experienced by Laura Helmuth, who was, until recently, the editor of the once sober and august Scientific American magazine.
Shortly after Trump’s re-election, Helmuth, in a now-deleted post on Bluesky, took aim at the ‘racists’ and ‘sexists’ she grew up with in her Trump-voting state. She wrote:
‘Every four years I remember why I left Indiana (where I grew up) and remember why I respect the people who stayed and are trying to make it less racist and sexist. The moral arc of the universe isn’t going to bend itself… Solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because fuck them to the moon and back… I apologise to younger voters that my Gen X is so full of fucking fascists.’
You might think Helmuth’s diatribe hardly fitting for the editor of an internationally recognised science journal. The post gained widespread attention and within days, it led to her stepping down as editor after four-and-a-half years in post. Strikingly, Helmuth’s parting shot was not a one-off. In recent years, the widely respected and nearly 200-year-old publication embraced a number of woke shibboleths, often jettisoning science in the process. Notably, Scientific American became a cheerleader for gender ideology, the Black Lives Matter movement and the establishment narrative around Covid-19. This trend even predates Helmuth’s arrival in the editor’s chair.
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Author: Ruth King
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