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SHERMER’S NEW SUBSTACK SKEPTIC COLUMN

Scientific American Goes Woke: A case study in how identity politics poisons science

In this essay, published on Substack today, Dr. Shermer addresses several recent articles in Scientific American of a distinctly unscientific nature related to progressive woke politics, perhaps in obedience to the British historian and Sovietologist Robert Conquest’s eponymous law that “any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.”

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