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At a glance, the only points where Scientific American has entered politics are: * climate change kills people * GMOs save people * guns kill people * disea
by o11c 2y ago
At a glance, the only points where Scientific American has entered politics are:
* climate change kills people
* GMOs save people
* guns kill people
* diseases kill people
All of which seem pretty uncontroversial. Is there something I'm missing?
- shrubble 2y agoThe question of genders and how many different ones there are, I believe.
- o11c 2y agoAh, fair enough. I do see that now that I look for it explicitly.
- oceanplexian 2y agoThey are controversial because they are not using science in good faith when they contain a call for action. For example, many of those questions require you to answer if it moral to cause harm to individuals to solve a collective problem. That’s not science, it’s philosophy. Look to the history of Eugenics for an example where the scientific community was on the wrong end of history. Science is a tool for understanding, not a way to control people.