Editor in chief of Scientific American Laura Helmuth resigns following expletive filled rant against Trump voters.
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Whom did she hire? They can go with her.
Which articles were approved for publishing and which articles were rejected?
The woke Board knew the game was up, found a scapegoat, whom it had installed, but now is virtue signaling to Trump, etc.
That entire Board should be thrown out on the scrap heap, because sanity is in, woke is out.
This is similar to.Yale Board installing an incompetent, biased, woke, plagiarizing President, who finally had to resign, because big donors withheld money.
Oh they’re coming out thick and fast everywhere now-
NASA staff call on Elon Musk after agency blows millions of dollars
Welcome to ethical cleansing lefties.
The dysfunctional woke idiots are coming out/fleeing at the top, and the illegal aliens are coming out at the bottom, self-deporting back to their country of origin, to help make those countries great again.
None of them bottom folks are needed here, with more and more AI and more and more robots arriving in factories and everywhere. The wave of the future
In NO hurry to resubscribe.
I’ve been waiting since 1965…
Good riddance.
So much for having an objective, tempered, analytic person in charge of what was once a respected science journal. It actually gives me hope that SciAm might still be saved and return to its former glory.
The decay started with the publisher.
The new editor will be chosen for their editorial inclinations. Don’t get your hopes up.
With the woke Board, which approves editors and other top jobs
Good. Hope Scientific American can be revived. And it’s “previous editor” be an example to others regarding the price of politicized “diahrea mouth”.
“Diarrhea of the mouth” was one of my Dad’s favorite expressions. Thanks for reminding me of the memory.
“Diarrhea of the mouth” goes hand in hand with “Constipation of the mind”.
Doubt she was given a choice by her German bosses.
Odd thing happened to Scientific American decades ago. It became no longer Scientific (hosts Mann articles, most stories no longer written by scientists but by journalists covering scientists). And it became no longer American (was sold to Springer Verlag of Germany).
She “sacrified” herself the same way Biden did 🙂
Btw – “something” happened to most domains decades ago.
Be it science,journalism,institutions, intelligence agencies (imagine how total the FBI has to be controlled by external forces to be able to come instantly up with 50 top exFBI officials to declare Hunter Bidens laptop Russian disinformation despite a Hunter sextape on it;
or how much the CiA and FBI and all other intelligence agencies are being controlled that none of them knew about Epstein until 2019, though Epstein got already exposed in 2015 by Amy Rohbach).
Just as Yuri Bezmenov predicted since 1977.
And Bezmenov was no off the mill conspiracy theorist but top soviet propandist talking about their plans unfolding in the USA .
Not to mention recent testimony before Congress about the pipe bombs found on Jan 6. FBI said that the cell phone records of the perpetrators were corrupted, but the phone company says it has them and they are intact. What is corrupted are the institutions that pretend to serve the people’s interests.
I am so glad DJT won!
And now I want to put the far left back in to its PLACE! sing it, we will we will rock you! we will we will rock you! They have mud on their face, they’re a big disgrace, we gonna put the Left back in to its place! In to the dust bin of history.
I agree Trump was an exceedingly better choice than Harris but I think some restraint in expectations is prudent. Power does not give up because of one misstep, even a big misstep. Pelosi filing to get back into big time politics as just one example.
How old is Pelosi now..? Looks sort of mummified.
84
Her best years and contribution to society are ahead of her, can’t be too long to wait.
One foot in the grave and another in the gravytrain
old habits take a long time to die, root out
She is to be composted?
Trump was ahead on the ballot count by 4.5 million on Nov 5, but now is ahead by 2.3 million, because the corrupt Democrat counting machine is crediting Harris, the loser, with more ballots than Trump, the winner. Data from Wikipedia.
The machine will count, count, count until Harris is ahead, while no one is looking.
The machine will count, count, count until Senator Casey is re- elected in PA.
WHITTLE, WHITTLE, WHITTLE, TO OBSTRUCT, OBSTRUCT, OBSTRUCT
Which Wikipedia page did you look at ?
My URL : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election
That page gives AP “Popular vote … Reporting 98.0% … as of 11:32 p.m., November 15, 2024 EST” results (in the top-right-hand corner) of :
Trump : 76,384,730
Harris : 73,677,904
76.4 – 73.7 = 2.7 million, not 2.3 … maybe “they” have given up and “they” are now “letting” the gap get wider with time ?
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I saw numbers from last Sunday (the 10th) of :
Trump : 74.65 million
Harris : 70.9 million
Outstanding : ~5 million
NB : Five days after the election the delta was 3.75 million, admittedly down from your “original” 4.5 …
As many of the “outstanding” votes were in California I (completely arbitrarily) assigned them “3 million to Harris, 2 million to Trump” and came up with the (thin) dotted lines on the attached graph.
NB : The Wikipedia numbers as the (slightly thicker) dashed lines.
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ChatGPT : I’m sorry
Davewilpost, I’m afraid there aren’t enough “outstanding” votes left to do that …I am not talking about votes, but ballots, fake or not
The Democrat ballot counting machines will “find” them, “cure” them, as usual, and then count them
I have a daily spreadsheet of the totals since Nov 5; data from Wiki
Each day Harris, the loser, gets more ballots than Trump, the winner, so his margin gets smaller as the days pass.
Unfortunately, I cannot show the spreadsheet on this site.
I will go to my desktop, and give you the URL
Stay tuned
This article has an up-to-date spreadsheet
A Program for a Greater America with a Much Smaller Federal Government
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/a-program-for-a-greater-america
by Willem Post
As time goes on the more likely these ballots are just donkey turds.
Each day, Harris is credited with more additional ballots than Trump
The longer counting goes on, the smaller the Trump margin; erasing Trump margin after polls closed!!
How can Harris, the loser, get more ballets added each day after the polls closed?
Those winning ballots likely are inserted by hook and crock, while no one is looking!
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Trump was ahead on the ballot count by 4.655 million on Nov 5, but now is ahead by 2.709 million, because the corrupt Democrat counting machines are crediting Harris, the loser, with more ballots than Trump, the winner.
Democrat ballot counting machines will “find” them, “cure” them, as usual, and then count them.
Data from above Wikipedia URL
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The machines will count, count, count until Harris is ahead, while no one is looking.
The machines will count, count, count until Senator Casey is re-elected in PA.
Whittle, whittle, whittle, to obstruct, obstruct, obstruct legislative agendas.
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Harris, a lousy campaigner, did not “benefit enough” from the Democrat counting machines in 2024, because:
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No pandemic lockdown
Thousands of Republican lawyers, etc., watching for ballot fraud
The race was not even close, thus large-scale cheating would have been too obvious
World salad, joyful Harris for President…REALLY?
With my Excel-clone spreadsheet (Libreoffice Calc) I can “Export as image” a graph (I prefer PNG format, JPEG also works) to my local hard disk, and then use the “Attach an image to this comment” button (the “landscape with mountains and sun” icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the composition box) here at WUWT.
I used this (by now semi-automatic to me, but I think I got all of the “divide by a million” formulas correct …) procedure to generate the attached graph using your data.
Note that both Y-axes have the same range, 10 million votes, to simplify comparisons.
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From an article in the Orange County register, dated the 12th (Margin ~3.245 million) :
The “half of the yet-to-be-decided” votes not in California will be in states that allow “late” arrivals of (mostly ?) postmarked ballot envelopes … which are mostly Democrat …
California is also a “blue” state, so it was to be expected that as time passed the “margin” of Trump’s victory in the popular vote would be gradually reduced.
From another article on MSN(.com), which looks like a repost from the “Los Angeles Daily News” (?) yesterday (Saturday the 16th) :
If California has approximately “half” of the uncounted votes for the entire USA, that’s ~1.5-2 million total left … versus a “margin” of 2.7 million on the 15th, and not even California is allocating those votes “100% Harris, 0% Trump” as they are “cured”.
The Trump-Harris margin will be reduced a bit further, but I don’t think they’ll bother to try and claim they managed to get it below zero.
In 2024 it was just “too big to rig”.
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I managed to miss this the first time around.
You might have a valid point here …
Bye Bye.
They are what they accuse Trump of being.
A period of silence on their part would be appropriate.
Projection. Don’t count on the Left being quiet. This is but one battle in an ongoing conflict. Gird yourselves m.
It’s not only projection but main part of their strategy.
Always accuse your enemy of the crimes you’re doing.
Saul Alinsky,neomarxist.
Obama and Hilary are huge fans of him.
They might be quiet for now. But they haven’t changed their tactics.
“They are what they accuse Trump of being.”
They are a rapist? Who has accused them of that and which court convicted them?
Trump is neither of those things.
You have, as usual, fallen for LIES and MALINFORMATION from the far-left.
So you know better than a jury who heard all the evidence? And what about Trump’s own statement that “he can grab them by the pussy”? Then there are at least 18 women who have made allegations about him including his first wife.
I’ve been on juries. They don’t always rule by the evidence, but by their feelings.
Izaak, do you really believe that his first wife is truly impartial?
Honestly, the fact that a significant hate campaign over several years only managed to bring up 18 willing accusers is quite telling.
As for the pussy comment, he was actually only stating the truth about the women in question. That says more about their morals than his.
Quite frankly, I have no love for the man, and personally believe that he’s a bit of an idiot, albeit a successful one. I just can’t stand the misrepresentation from people like yourself, driven by blind hatred and belief in the media driven by the same hatred. That says more about the intellectual capabilities of you and your ilk than about him.
How ave I misrepresented him? The facts are what they are. He was found guilty of sexual assault, is a convicted felon, have been bankrupt multiple times, bragged about assaulting women, walking in the dressing rooms of miss world contestants, hung around with Jeffery Epstein etc. Then of course there is his long history of racism, starting with not renting homes to African Americans (subject of a 1973 federal lawsuit), taking out full page ads calling for the death penalty for the central park five, call Mexicans rapists at start of his 2016 campaign, and more recently accusing immigrants of “poisoning the blood of our country.”
You have presented absolutely NOTHING but baseless here-say and left inventions.
What racism??? he has hired many people of different races over a long period of time.
You yet again fall for the LIES, RACE-BAITING and FAKERY of the far left media.
And still listening to the ultra-leftists sooks having a total meltdown.
Many people called the Central Park Five to face capital punishment. Police got it wrong.
If you were old enough to have a daughter, how would respond if she was gang raped and murdered ?
Mexicans were carrying out multiple rapes. Trump was correct.
Actually condone rape though… shows your lack of morality.
That you think allowing criminals from mental institutions, prisons etc to infiltrate into the country on mass is a good thing…
… shows even more about your totally anti-human and degenerate ideology and your total hatred of the USA and its people.
My favorite leftist statement is that General Kelly is telling the truth. He was a bully–as stated by Trump–and he was fired by Trump. Obviously anything he says is completely biased. What total nonsense! So the “suckers and losers” statement is nonsense. It’s also a lie. Kelly should resign his commission for violating the honor code!!!
Post says:” He was …
bankrupt multiple times…”
Donald Trump never was bankrupt. You confuse companies with people.
So yes you misrepresent the facts.
Misrepresenting facts, or lying in plain language.
It’s what leftists always do.
And not one with any actual real EVIDENCE.
You have FAILED yet again, Izzy-dumb. !
You really have to GET OVER IT, Izzy-dumb
TRUMP WON.. stop your childish bleating !
You are worse than Joyless Reid.
Does winning excuse rape? Or do you just not care?
There is no excuse for rape
However, Trump wasn’t convicted of rape, so your original comment is a lie
If you have proof from a reputable source, please post it
I bet you don’t post proof in response to this comment
Rape
He said, she said
Get a judge that convicts a ham sandwich
Sex is consensual, rape is not
No it’s, ands or buts
Ask Bill Clinton.
(Or better yet, Juanita Broaddrick.)
Each day, Harris is credited with more additional ballots than Trump
The longer counting goes on, the smaller the Trump margin; erasing Trump margin after polls closed!!
How can Harris, the loser, get more ballets added each day after the polls closed?
Those winning ballots likely are inserted by hook and crock, while no one is looking!
.
Trump was ahead on the ballot count by 4.655 million on Nov 5, but now is ahead by 2.709 million, because the corrupt Democrat counting machines are crediting Harris, the loser, with more ballots than Trump, the winner.
Democrat ballot counting machines will “find” them, “cure” them, as usual, and then count them.
Data from above Wikipedia URL
.
The machines will count, count, count until Harris is ahead, while no one is looking.
The machines will count, count, count until Senator Casey is re-elected in PA.
Whittle, whittle, whittle, to obstruct, obstruct, obstruct legislative agendas.
.
Harris, a lousy campaigner, did not “benefit enough” from the Democrat counting machines in 2024, because:
.
No pandemic lockdown
Thousands of Republican lawyers, etc., watching for ballot fraud
The race was not even close, thus large-scale cheating would have been too obvious
World salad, joyful Harris for President…REALLY?
“So you know better than a jury who heard all the evidence?”
Trump has never been convicted of rape.
“And what about Trump’s own statement that “he can grab them by the pussy”?”
Trump was not talking about himself grabbing a woman’s crotch, he was talking about how other men would do such a thing.
Get your facts straight. Stop listening to Leftwing lies and propaganda. Don’t be so easily influenced by these liars.
Left out “kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago”
If they really “hung out” there would be a LOT more than just that one picture.
Get your facts straight.
Izaak is like all the others, doesn’t care about facts if they don’t fit his biases.
Ever hear of Tara Read?
No one cares what you think.
Trump WON. Suck it up, loser.
“Scientific American” is neither.
Could say the same for “New Scientist”
When I’m politely discussing media bias with someone, they usually bring up Fox News with a, “Hah So There tone of voice.” My retort with, “ ABC,CBS, NBC, NPR, MSNBC, PBS, NY Times, Washington Post, National Geographic etc.” Always ends with a tone reminiscent of Looney Toons Tasmanian Devil “And especially Scientific American!
I’m no big fan of Rand’s writing but every day I become reacquainted with the idea that words should have meanings.
Fascist? The number of people who know its meaning seems much smaller than the number of people who use the word regularly. The Venn diagrams don’t overlap much.
My ex was a big time Randite, and Rand seriously needed an editor.
Rand who? Or is it who Rand?
Ayn Rand, of “Atlas Shrugged”.
…and more importantly, Objectivism.
Lets see who they replace her with.
Hopefully someone who does not view “science” as a political tool.
“Hopefully someone who does not view “science” as a political tool.“
That rules out a heck of a lot of people.
A necessary but not sufficient step.
More good news.
Not really.
Finally an hoenest person at the scientific american telling the truth – and she gets fired?
The others are just like her , but too smart to say out lud what she said.
Like I said, more good news.
Not really. She aired an opinion, with expletives. She resigned because she had not been professional. Quite rightly.
As for fascism, you need to look up the definition. It’s mainly about government allowing private ownership of the means of production, but forcing it to do what government wants.
Consider things like carbon taxes and renewable energy subsidies. Consider forcing car manufacturers to produce the types of cars that government mandates. That’s called fascism.
Removing red tape and regulations is the exact opposite!
Now put your thinking cap on, and consider which American government leaders I’m referring to…
Opinion is not fact
Scientific American is neither.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
While expression one’s own opinion should be an essentially unlimited right, picking the right venue can be important.
An opinion is different from an unsupported screed that is borderline libel. Her behavior certainly isn’t civilized.
Who here thinks this is going to make a difference in the editorial decisions of what and who they publish? I sure don’t. The way I see it is, if their board had any integrity, Helmuth wouldn’t have been there in the first place.
Unfortunately, you are probably right. She has become a scapegoat for what is probably corporate policy because she was dumb enough to say what they think.
I’ll bet she has cats.
The woke left Groupthinkers got fat and lazy on the trappings of power and didn’t realize an alternative narrative was creeping up on them and about to kick in their rotten door-
‘The intellectual dark web just won the election!’: meet the coalition of Joe Rogan, RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk
Their absolute arrogance and gaslighting at attempting to present Joe Biden as a serious President for the next 4 years says it all but that hubris sublimely dumped them with their DEI hire and a political disaster of their own making. Unlike Trump in 2016 this time around the alternative force is ready and able to take the reins of power and kick butt as you can see. No doubt why lefty heads are exploding everywhere as those they cancelled and censored for years are now speaking up with evidence of their shenanigans-
NASA staff call on Elon Musk after agency blows millions of dollars
It will take more than this emotionally incontinent midwit leaving to right the SA ship but it’s a start.
The woke left seriously misunderstood Trump as he tenaciously brushed away everything they threw at him but he wasn’t alone with women like Suzie Wiles et al-
Former Real Housewives star reveals what it’s like in Donald Trump’s inner circle | Sky News Australia
Clearly no woman could possibly vote for such a misogynist but only their black woman eh?
One tough cookie now with 4 years experience of the swamp and who to trust and what’s required and no re-election niceties to be concerned with may well make this man one of the West’s great reformers. The penny’s dropping with the woke left and they’re in full panic mode with each leadership appointment unfolding to hit the ground running.
Eight years.
You’re forgetting about “Russia ! Russia ! Russia !” and the reaction to the Mueller report in 2019 … i.e. not “Sorry, our bad” but “Next smear”.
Note, however, that while It took almost 7 years for Snopes to conclude that the “very fine people” hoax was actually “False” Bill Maher … Bill Maher ! … was quietly sighing “Just don’t lie to me” less than a week into the “He wants to put Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad ! ! !” hysteria.
It will be interesting to see how many of the Woke boxes they manage to tick when selecting her replacement.
I don’t think scientific accreditation is on the list though….
You know there’s going to be a lot of flow on in all sorts of areas and fields as this new broom Trump administration really means business-
New Secretary of Defense Shocks Host w/ His Brutally Honest Answer That Is Guaranteed to Offend
What’s more they figure they have until the mid term to make sure it’s all hunkered down and the obstructionists rooted out completely and everyone’s singing from the new hymn book.
I thought it was unladylike way back
She really needs to do something about that poor impulse control.
Listen to the woke weasels and rats running for cover and changing their tune now with the stinking dead carcase of the Democrat regime swinging in the breeze-
MSNBC Audience Shocked by Host’s Admitting This About ‘Woke’
We never believed in all that woke crap Mister Trump! He isn’t even inaugurated yet and look at them already glancing over their shoulders for all those they silenced and cancelled coming for them.