Scientific American retracts anti-Israel
opinion piece after criticism
New York Post,
by
Jon Levine
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
6/27/2021 9:17:58 AM
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.(Snip)Among the biggest sticking points were the article’s failure to note that the 1993 Oslo Accords tasks the Palestinian Authority to provide healthcare services to its people. The same agreement also prohibits Israel from providing care unless asked by the Palestinian Authority.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Petronius 6/27/2021 9:22:59 AM (No. 827920)
Scientific Un-American.
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Didn't I read just the other day that Israel offered to provide millions of vaccines to the PA and they soundly refused all such help?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/27/2021 9:51:12 AM (No. 827972)
Scientific American is neither.
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SA has been a liberal rag for years. Used to read it but haven’t in years.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
HotRod 6/27/2021 9:55:51 AM (No. 827983)
The S.A. is a media member and has gone the way of the MSM.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
paral04 6/27/2021 9:56:16 AM (No. 827984)
Interesting. Palestine has been around for thousands of years and has yet to make any contribution to the world's progress. Why don't they have their own vaccines? They are constantly complaining, lob bombs at Israel and when Israel fires back, Israel is mean. When they got back the West Bank that was flourishing under Israeli occupation, Palestine quickly destroyed it. Scientific American's supposedly erudite publication should know to research before printing an article is a big disappointment to me.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/27/2021 10:18:20 AM (No. 828029)
SA has falsified plenty of Climate Change related data and articles to promote the woke narrative. This wouldn't be the first time.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Omen55 6/27/2021 10:28:28 AM (No. 828041)
It's suppose to be science.
Not political science🤢
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JrSample 6/27/2021 11:18:40 AM (No. 828104)
Since there is no such country as Palestine, it would be difficult to locate.
Why don't they have Hamas vaccinate them?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/27/2021 11:23:45 AM (No. 828108)
Many years ago I had a subscription to 'Science News', a weekly publication from Science magazine.
There were a lot of interesting articles in the issues, but after a year or so I cancelled my subscription, as I refused to stomach the constant left-wing propaganda. EVERY article - and I mean EVERY article, It must have been a requirement instituted by the management- had some left-wing statement about how Western civilization was destroying the world, destroying some primitive culture in Papua New Guinea or in 'Outer Tonbuglia', destroying the habitat of some exotic 'vital' critter than no-one had ever heard of..... at the same time the magazine was running full-page ads for various 'Rolex Watch' style luxury goods and full page ads for luxury 'world tour' cruises of the very type that the articles were claiming were destroying the earth and the various primitive cultures.
Such sanctimonious, lying hypocrites!
As the truthful saying goes.....
The Left destroys Everything that it Touches!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 6/27/2021 11:52:01 AM (No. 828144)
It should be titled, Unscientific AntiAmerican.
Many years ago, Scientific American subscription was one of the 32 magazines that I subscribed to. It had excellent technical articles on a wide range of scientific topics, and often they were about really cutting edge information. This is where the public first heard about heliobacter causing ulcers, now a hard medical fact, but at that time, an extremely controversial idea, unacceptable heresy to 95% of the medical community. The magazine was really cutting edge when an excellent article about the future of "the hydrogen energy economy" pointed out that while hydrogen was a workable fuel for combustion engines, and only put out water vapor as exhaust, and PERHAPS there might be a safe and workable storage tank design created someday, the fact that hydrogen was not a fuel, because you had to CREATE IT, at a huge energy cost, and couldn't "go and get some" like coal, oil, natural gas, etc, it would never play any significant part in transportation. Scientific truth was the order of the day. But now - leftist propaganda is the endless drumbeat there, too.
But, about in the late 90s to early 2000s, I forget exactly, the magazine was taken over by the MMGW propagandists and began the endless, fraudulent Gaia tent revival drumbeat of "MMGW is going to get us all, REPENT ye carbon sinners!". I cancelled my subscription along with National Geo, gone down the same fake religious propaganda rabbit hole. I haven't seen a copy of either mag since. I had a 30+ year subscription to NatGeo, and half that to SciAm. RIP, truth and sanity.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BarryNo 6/27/2021 12:10:54 PM (No. 828167)
Correction, poster 6: there has NEVER been a country called Palestine. The current Palestinians are the descendants of Jordanians, Egyptians, etc. who came to the revived nation of Israel looking for work.
When the Arab Nations declared they would kill anyone inside Israels border, and rolled in to perpetrate genocide. These migrant workers ran out of Israel and hid, rooting for the Arabs.
When the Arabs lost, the Palestinians were told, dont cone back. The Arab nations they fled too, refused to acknowledge them. They were homeless refugees. It took anti-semitic Jimmy Carter leaning on Israel to create the illusion of "Palestine". The media, and our political enemies have used that lie since to try to destroy Israel.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/27/2021 12:27:46 PM (No. 828187)
Thanks BarryNo (#12).
I appreciate the history lesson, as I have long wondered how the present 'situation' came about.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/27/2021 1:16:54 PM (No. 828232)
As big a "full of themselves" publication as National Geographic and New Yorker Magazine.
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I went through the coursework for two different doctoral programs at an Ivy-league university before writing my P{hD dissertation in one of them. From my freshman year (1948) to the mid-1970s, as a dedicated student, teacher, and practitioner of science, I read Scientific American devotedly as they became progressively more political. Eventually, I just gave up and turned to less partisan sources for general news of science. Now I never look at it.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
local500 6/28/2021 9:46:09 PM (No. 829797)
So they are a bunch of far left activists, not really scientific after all.
Yeah, not a surprise.
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