Not-so-Scientific American, Trump’s insane trial and other commentary

Woke Clock: Not-So-Scientific Americans

“American journalism has never been good at covering science.” As City Journal’s James B. Meigs argues: — But lo and behold, Scientific American has decided that science must serve as a “handmaiden” to progressive orthodoxy.

Witness the magazine’s coverage of coronavirus, transgender children and the climate. This is a “new style of science journalism” that is indistinguishable from the advocacy of “politically approved opinions.”

(Including endorsing presidential candidate Joe Biden for the first time in 175 years.)

“The public will be notified when claims made by health officials and other experts turn out to be based more on politics than science.”

Tragically, “the share of Americans who say they trust scientists ‘a lot’ has fallen from 39 percent in 2020 to 23 percent now.”

Conservatives: Trump’s insane trial

“The craziest thing about former President Donald Trump’s trial in New York is that we don’t know exactly what crimes he’s being charged with.” Byron York of the Washington Examiner says:.

Yes, “we know that Mr. Trump has been charged with falsifying business records,” but that “is only a misdemeanor with a two-year statute of limitations.”

Prosecutors upgraded the case to a felony, citing “intent to defraud, including intent to commit or aid or conceal the commission of another crime.”

However, because “no other crimes were specified in the indictment,” Trump was effectively indicted two weeks after the trial began “without knowing what he was accused of doing.” become.

“That may sound vaguely unconstitutional, but it’s true.”

Liberals: Democrats’ problems with health care voters

As in 2016, this year voters with “populist/progressive” views on health care are “more conservative on immigration.” Reported by Louis Teixeira of Liberal Patriot, according to poll results from his group and Blueprint. For example, the data shows that 81% of voters support Medicare negotiating drug prices, and 72% of them support using “existing presidential powers to stop the passage of illegal immigrants at the border.” .

Notably, “the major shift toward Trump is occurring precisely among those who support both sides of the aisle for a positive role for Medicare.” and Exercise of executive authority to stop illegal border crossings.

Oh, and those who support a greater Medicare role Also Oppose Democratic approaches on policing and climate change. “There’s a lesson there if Democrats take it seriously.”

From right: Jamal Bowman loves Hamas.

Rep. Jamal Bowman (D-Wichester) “held a fundraiser with Islamic leaders sympathetic to Hamas…celebrating the brutal attack on Israel on October 7th.” National Review’s Caroline Downey is outraged.

At the Palestine Convention in Chicago last November, Nihad Awad “defended the October 7 massacre as an expression of powerful resistance by the Palestinian people.”

As a result, the White House ended its “cooperation with CAIR, Mr. Awad’s organization to combat religious-based hatred in the United States.”

Bowman just “condemned the police for intervening in the protests in Colombia” and was previously seen in a video “questioning the mass sexual violence against Israeli women by Hamas terrorists.” (However, he later retracted his statement).

Breaking DEI: MIT abolishes thought control

Massachusetts Institute of Technology will “end the use of diversity statements in faculty hiring.” . It’s important.” Cheers to John Saylor at UnHerd.

Coercive statements like these force prospective hires to support a harmful DEI agenda. The “backlash” against them has so far been “encouraged or enacted by legislators and has been successful almost exclusively at public universities in red states.”

But “MIT’s decision is different. It’s a change from within, prompted by the provost, along with deans and provosts.”

“A significant number of faculty across the political spectrum simply cannot stand mandatory DEI statements,” leading to “more private universities and public universities in blue states ultimately following MIT’s lead.” It is very likely.”

“This is more than a narrow issue of freedom of expression and coercion of speech. Statement on Diversity… A uniquely bad orthodoxy that corrodes civic life and negatively impacts genuine higher education. It is producing.”

— Edited by Post Editorial Board