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📢  文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Scientific American Didn’t Need to Endorse Anybody  The magazine’s endorsement of a candidate undermines trust in expertise. The Atlantic Kamala Harris 18 Sep, 2024 | 847 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ Scientific American has been a mainstay of science and technology journalism in the United States. (It’s been in business 179 years, even longer than The Atlantic.) As an aspiring nerd in my youth—I began college as a chemistry major—I read it regularly. But the magazine’s decision to break with tradition and endorse Kamala Harris—only the second such nod in the magazine’s history—is a mistake, as was its 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden, on multiple levels. I understand the frustration that probably led to this decision. Donald Trump is the most willfully ignorant man ever to hold the presidency. He does not understand even basic concepts of … well, almost anything. (Yesterday, he explained to a woman in Michigan th ………………………………