Scientific American Is Disappointed in the Media Coverage of Student Protests

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On Monday, we did a piece on a former columnist for Scientific American who explained the magazine's As we noted, SciAm broke a 175-year streak of not endorsing candidates for president in 2020 when it endorsed Joe Biden. because the 2020 election " ." It's fitting that a magazine called Scientific American endorses a guy whose Supreme Court nominee couldn't tell what a woman was because she wasn't a biologist.

So we're not surprised that Scientific American has a new piece out on the pro-Hamas protests on university campuses across the country. If they really wanted to talk about science, they could have explained the physics of a protester with a trash-can shield . Instead, they have a beef with the media and how they're covering the pro-Hamas protests.



Media coverage of university students speaking up against the war in Gaza, just like coverage of other protest movements, has fallen prey to some serious weaknesses mmmm, science-y stay subscribed to Scientific American for our hard-hitting scientific hot takes on the Drake-Kendrick Lamar conflict A lot of people in the replies to Monday's post said they'd been subscribers for a long time but dropped it when they started doing "collectible" editions devoted to Let's see what their problem is. Danielle K. Brown, whose scientific credentials include being a professor of journalism at Michigan State University, : .

.. rather than focusing on the grievance of protesters — that is, concerns about the deaths, injuries and looming.