Scientific American (and math) go full woke

[C C]

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/08/2...full-woke/

INTRO (Jerry Coyne): As we all know, Scientific American is changing from a popular-science magazine into a social-justice-in-science magazine, having hardly anything the science-hungry reader wants to see any more. I urge you to peruse its website and look for the kind of article that would have inspired me when I was younger: articles about pure science. Now the rag is all about inequities and human diseases.

In the past couple of months, there have been some dire op-eds, and here’s another one—not as bad as some others, but (especially for a science magazine) riddled with unexamined assumptions. Click on the screenshot to read it. Apparently the “racial reckoning” that began last year has now crept into mathematics.

After reading it, I have two questions: Is mathematics structurally racist? And why has Scientific American changed its mission from publishing decent science pieces to flawed bits of ideology?

The article, of course, claims that mathematics is a hotbed of racism and misogyny, which explains why there are so few women and blacks in academic mathematics... (MORE)

[Leigha]

To me, from a classroom perspective, there's nothing wrong with teaching ''concepts and ideas'' over procedures/solutions and so on (because not everyone learns in the same way), but attaching any type of ''woke'' agenda may hinder potential progress and could possibly set teachers (and students) up to fail.

[Yazata]

I've given up on Scientific American. It's a once-great science magazine absolutely ruined by its new owners. Today it's almost unreadable. Pretty much a waste of time and best ignored.