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Scientific American does an asinine hit job on E. O. Wilson, calling him a racist

Scientific American has hit rock bottom with this new op-ed that is nothing more than a hit piece on Ed Wilson, basically calling him a racist. It is written by someone who apparently has no training in evolutionary biology, though she says she “intimately familiarized [herself] with Wilson’s work and his dangerous ideas on what … Continue reading Scientific American does an asinine hit job on E. O. Wilson, calling him a racist

Scott Aaronson hosts a guest post about the Sci Am hatchet job on E. O. Wilson

Several readers called my attention to the new entry on Scott Aaronson’s website, which deals with the recent Scientific American op-ed about E. O. Wilson’s supposed “racism”. (You can find the original piece here. Did you know that Mendel was a racist, too?) The op-ed was execrable, and I’d hoped that Laura Helmuth, the editor-in-chief, … Continue reading Scott Aaronson hosts a guest post about the Sci Am hatchet job on E. O. Wilson

Scientific American: Denying evolution is white supremacy

As we’ve seen, the once-respectable journal Scientific American is circling the drain, with an increasing surfeit of articles pushing a particular ideological point of view—a woke one. Well, this article, by writer Allison Hopper, has a bit of science in it, but it’s mixed with politics in such a toxic way that it’s almost funny. … Continue reading Scientific American: Denying evolution is white supremacy

Our attempt to correct the record about E. O. Wilson: a joint letter to Scientific American—which, of course, they rejected.

UPDATE: David Sloan Wilson has also published the letter on his site “This View of Life”. ______________ A bunch of people in evolution and genetics took exception to an op-ed in Scientific American by Monica McLemore, which called E. O. Wilson a racist just days after he died. The author, who apparently had almost no … Continue reading Our attempt to correct the record about E. O. Wilson: a joint letter to Scientific American—which, of course, they rejected.