Scientific American Editor Apologizes For Rant Against Trump Supporters

A priestess in the cult of The Science™ apologized Friday for an expletive-laced rant against Americans who voted for Donald Trump.

One would think that the editor-in-chief of Scientific American, the supposedly prestigious science publication founded in 1845, would act sober and measured on social media, a way befitting someone who claims to be an arbiter of reason and objectivity — you know, The Science™.  No, I guess not. It turns out that Laura Helmuth, the editor-in-chief in question, is as much a partisan as your average MSNBC viewer. (RELATED: ‘The Science’ Lights Their Last Bit Of Credibility On Fire For Kamala Harris)

“Solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because fuck them to the moon and back,” she wrote of the election on the social media platform Bluesky, Fox News reported.

Helmuth wrote in a separate post, “I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is full of fucking fascists,” according to Fox News.

The editor-in-chief later apologized for the scathing remarks, claiming she was “committed to civil communication and editorial objectivity.”

“I made a series of offensive and inappropriate posts on my personal Bluesky account on election night, and I am sorry,” Helmuth said in a statement. “I respect and value people across the political spectrum. These posts, which I have deleted, do not reflect my beliefs; they were a mistaken expression of shock and confusion about the election results.”

“These posts of course do not reflect the position of Scientific American or my colleagues. I am committed to civil communication and editorial objectivity,” she added.

It’s hard to give Halmuth any benefit of the doubt when, just in September, her publication pushed pro-Kamala Harris propaganda with a fawning endorsement of the vice president. To endorse a presidential candidate as a science magazine is as absurd as it is self-defeating. Although there are politics within the world of science, science should never so explicitly mingle with the politics of the outside world. (Stream ‘SICK’, the Daily Caller’s documentary on the medical establishment, here)

Clawing back the credibility that was thrown away by taking a side in an election will be next to impossible for Scientific American. Making inflammatory social media posts about more than half of America certainly does not help.