How ‘Scientific American’s departing editor helped degrade science

Laura Helmuth resigned as editor in chief of Scientific American earlier this week .

Frida Ghitis: Helmuth's departure was precipitated by a bilious Bluesky rant she posted after Donald Trump was reelected.

She says Helmuth was ousted over a few bad posts, but her reign as editor was a problem with her political agenda.

Ghitis says SciAm played a small but important role in the self-immolation of scientific authority.

Every article SciAm published on this subject during Helmuth 's tenure followed the exact same playbook of reciting activist claims, often long after they'd been debunked.

SciAm ran a response to the Cass Review written by a pair of writers who were somehow able to issue a searing critique of the review despite having clearly never read it.

It falsely claimed that there is solid evidence youth gender medicine ameliorates adolescent suicidality.