- Profiles in Courage, NOT. No. 1: The Scientific American.
- Profiles in Courage, NOT. No. 1: The Scientific American. - Morrissey November 5, 2021, 2:55 am
- From within the article... - Raskolnikov November 5, 2021, 9:26 am
Posted by Morrissey
on November 5, 2021, 2:55 am
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This is from the pisspoor Murdoch New York Post, so it's full of ignorant and foul abuse, but the real villains here are the spineless editorial staff at the Scientific American..... Scientific American retracts anti-Israel opinion piece after criticism By Jon Levine June 29, 2021 Source: New York Post Originally published on 06/26/2021 1 They’re in hot H2O. Scientific American found itself taking heat this month after the scholarly, 176-year-old magazine published an opinion piece titled “Health Care Workers Call for Support of Palestinians.” The screechy diatribe accused Israel of “vaccine apartheid” and “war crimes” among other alleged abuses. The piece blasted “Israeli settler colonial rule” and called on US health care and academic institutions to condemn “long-standing oppression” against the Palestinians and adopt the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign against the country. The piece was written by Harvard University research fellows Osaid H.K. Alser and Asmaa Rimawi; Seattle Children’s Hospital’s Dr. Sabreen Akhter; the Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Nusheen Ameenuddin; Harvard med students Anand Chukka and Qaali Hussein; Arizona trauma surgeon Ariän El-Taher; and Bryan Leyva, an “AfroLatinx Scholar-Activist from the Dakota Territory.” The opinionated screed was swiftly retracted after the magazine received a letter from three Nobel Prize winners and 100 other scientists calling out the article. “In publishing the cited article, Scientific American’s editors jettisoned appropriate editorial standards and ignored easily verified facts that counter the authors’ one-sided invective,” the letter read. ad nauseam... https://spme.org/anti-israelism/scientific-american-retracts-anti-israel-opinion-piece-after-criticism/26696/ |
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