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Jennine McCray's avatar

I stopped my 20+ year subscription to Science News in the early 2000’s because the new editrix announced the magazine would no longer be apolitical. She prattled on about how science needed to be political, to advocate and even be partisan. I was disgusted and alarmed, but few people, then, cared or understood the problems this could create. Now, since covid, many people do. I’m glad these changes are being made. Hopefully more changes are coming!

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Epaminondas's avatar

As historian Jon Barry said, "When you mix politics and science, you get politics." The primary result of mixing science and politics is that people will lose trust in science.

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michael holt's avatar

I'm deeply grateful that in a world of political deception and media manipulation, Sharyl is a true investigative reporter. She's on "the right side of history" and will be remembered as such.

Civilizational turmoil like ours has the same tendency as War to test and prove who the real heroes are. And though heroes are always few in number, as Shakespeare said, "the fewer men, the greater share of honor."

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Cherie Davis's avatar

Thank goodness that the age of lying scientists and profiteering pharma is over. We don’t believe them. They killed millions for NO REASON!!!! The effects will go on for generations. We hate you so quit your lying. You deserve jail.

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Julianne Schneider's avatar

Let’s not assume that age is over, there will continue to be lying scientists and profiteering scientists attempting to confuse and lie because they profit from the lies and deception.

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Daniel Mordue's avatar

Don't believe anything you suspect may be a lie. If we don't believe the scientists, and they see they aren't getting the attention they seek, they just may quit their lying.

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Yang Ming Mountain's avatar

@Daniel Mordue Your sarcastic comment doesn’t address the root cause issue due to human nature: the blatant lies are part of the hidden crimes, those bad scientists would stop lying to a large extent only if they are going to jail once they are caught. Fauci has no shame and no fear, because he always gets away with his crimes like all the Dems and RINOs do.

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Daniel Mordue's avatar

I actually agree with your comment. No one has been sent to jail. That's why they keep lying. They haven't been punished. So they keep doing what they are doing. The powers that be do not put their foot down, and they don't seem to want to. If we are going to avoid future pandemics, not lying & telling the truth, being honest are the things those scientists need to do, to be transparent, upfront about issues like the origin of COVID and how the virus was made. I just don't know if they have the wherewithall to do it.

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Gary Wade's avatar

I subscribed to Scientific American for many years, starting when I was still in college. After medical school, I became a member of the AAAS and read Science Magazine for more than 25 years. Unfortunately, both began a serious leftward drift and I finally had to kill my subscriptions and membership in AAAS. It's a sad sign of the degradation of our University system.

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Maurine Meleck's avatar

Excellent piece.

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Richard Amerling, MD's avatar

"Science" journalism appears to be as corrupted as mainstream journalism. The Fauci's "proximal origin" coverup of the Wuhan lab involvement in Covid, and his flaunting of restrictions on gain-of-function research are the "proximal" reasons behind his preemptive pardon.

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Yang Ming Mountain's avatar

I strongly suspect the $600,000 to WIV is only the tip of the iceberg. The actual amount must be at least two orders of magnitude higher. The money doesn’t tell the whole story, the inclusion of scientists from the Chinese Communist regime in the research projects indicates the deep infiltration of a hostile regime’s intelligence operatives into the United States academia and government research institutes. The Communist Party of China is notorious in using bribes, sex, and ideological brainwashing in recruiting the traitors. The investigation of AAAS for potential treason should be a priority.

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David Silverberg's avatar

Thank you. There's nothing like shining light on a subject to route out the rats.

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Don Reed's avatar

05/12/25: Thank you, Sharyl. see how impossible it is to keep things covered up forever?

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Demos’s ReStack's avatar

“After Covid broke out and implicated China’s Wuhan labs in 2022, the Trump administration forced the NIH to “ !!!!! Either the date is wrong or the named

administration

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Richard's avatar

Whatever the government wants me to believe, most likely the opposite is true. I don't believe it was an accidental leak. It was a deliberate release to pave the way for the toxic serums.

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Deep Dive's avatar

Ugh!

These guys are willing to burn-up whatever social capital that they had, and are willing to take the reputation of science down with them.

Thanks for keeping us up to date on this though, Sharyl.

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Tuco's Child's avatar

Great article! New here. Regarding Science and Nature:

Forgive the nom de guerre. I am a retired chemist, and I don't go by "Dr." here like many, and I like spaghetti westerns.

Back in the day, before too many fumes, I published in both Science and Nature. I got lucky and was working in the area of nanomaterials and phosphors at the time. It was a lifetime honor back then.

Now, these journals are a politicized disgrace, almost the same with PNAS and Applied Physics Letters. My grad school is a now disgraced Ivy. I guess I am an old dinosaur, lol.

Keep up the great work and stop by tucoschild.substack.com

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Steve Birkholz's avatar

Nice timely, factual confrontation of Science News obfuscation attempts.

We need more of similiar.

Drive them into same hole that CNN is finding itself in.

Steveb

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Ben Terrill's avatar

Thanks for revealing the deceivers at Science and Nature.

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TheyLied's avatar

Thank you Sharyl, for continuing to expose the corrupt regime media and the lies they promote.

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They Lied.

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https://TheyLied.ca

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https://TheyLied.substack.com

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Vaccines are poisons

https://theylied.ca/Vaccines.shtml

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