As I have noted before, Science magazine has wandered from a professional scientific journal to a left leaning set of postings. In a recent one there was a diatribe against the US Supreme Court as well as a mass of US citizens. Specifically the author states:
The United States has an insatiable desire for technological advancement but is governed by founding documents that are completely unsuited for science and technology. This incongruity has manifested in recent disastrous actions by the US Supreme Court on guns, abortion, and climate. The decisions suggest that the battle is being won by the portion of America who—while lionizing the past and clinging to the infallibility of words written in the late 18th century—can’t put down their cell phones. Reactionary posts on social media wouldn’t get very far without a hundred years of technical advances—and massive amounts of power to recharge mobile device batteries and run the server farms that support the digital world. Because the disconnect between aspects of modern life and the framing of the country’s governance appears inconsequential to the conservative majority of justices in the US Supreme Court, it is vital that the scientific community advocate a political and societal landscape in which compassion and adaptability attend technological progress.
As we have noted previously the abortion ruling was one rejecting the constitutional right to privacy via some unseen penumbra. What the Court ruled was not against abortion but that the logic of the original ruling was faulty. The Court said people could do whatever they wanted but that abortion was not a Constitutional Right. As for the gun ruling the right does exist and it can be delimited but not in extremis.
Scientists do science. As citizens they can rightly petition their Government but there must be an acceptance of any petitioning. Negative statements have existed for millennia, not just because some social media service exists.
It is a shame that we have these characters bemoan in such a manner that grossly lacks understanding.
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