It is not about an upside to Nature. By banding together with the leading science publications, it is an upside to society. They don't have to endorse, but they

It is not about an upside to Nature. By banding together with the leading science publications, it is an upside to society. They don't have to endorse, but they must always call out politicians/policies that will set back science or scientific temper back a few decades. This is not about someone like Deepak Chopra with some quaint view of "quantum"; this is about the most powerful political force that institutionalizes bad faith arguments against science and scientific institutions. Let me give you another example. The Modi govt. in India is right wing Hindu, and keep touting Ancient Hindu science. They rammed through a track by that name at the prestigious (well, until then) 102nd assembly of the Indian Science Congress. Read the following account of one of the papers submitted and weep. https://scroll.in/article/698616/pilots-in-magic-suits-could-steer-vedic-planes-between-planets-says-paper-at-indian-science-congress https://scroll.in/article/698616/pilots-in-magic-suits-could... Now, if it was one crank submission, one can laugh it off. But now there are "cow science" institutes all over India, I kid you not, with prominent politicians claiming that cows are immune to radiation etc. These are official government backed places. I would very much like the scientific establishment and their mouth pieces (Nature, SciAm, etc) to openly disendorse the govt, and to mock the science roundly. I am tired of equal sized megaphones for illiterate people.