The editor-in-chief of Scientific American has issued an apology following a backlash to her comments attacking citizens who voted for President Donald Trump.
Following Trump’s historic election victory, the “science” outlet’s editor Laura Helmuth took to social media to lash out with a hate-filled and expletive-laden tirade, as Slay News reported.
Helmuth blasted Trump voters as the “meanest, dumbest, most bigoted” group of “f—ing fascists” in America.
Helmuth documented her reaction to the presidential election on her Bluesky social media account throughout Tuesday night.
She began optimistically, celebrating Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s campaign efforts.
“Thank you to everyone who knocked on doors, sent postcards, organized, participated in get-out-the-vote events, donated, registered voters, and just plain voted. I’m so glad we’re all in this together,” Helmuth wrote.
However, as the president-elect’s decisive victory became clear, Helmuth started to attack Trump’s tens of millions of voters.
“Every four years I remember why I left Indiana (where I grew up) and remember why I respect the people who stayed and are trying to make it less racist and sexist,” she wrote.
“The moral arc of the universe isn’t going to bend itself.”
“Solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because f— them to the moon and back,” another post read.
Helmuth also wrote, “I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is so full of f—ing fascists.”
The next day, she shared a Scientific American article titled “Election Grief Is Real. Here’s How to Cope.”
The article from the “science” outlet, which publicly endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, features comments from University of Minnesota emeritus professor and psychotherapist Pauline Boss.
Throughout the article, Boss complained about the “outcome of this election” and attacked Trump voters.
The remarks from Helmuth and the subsequent article from Scientific American provoked a backlash on social media.
Helmuth was criticized for her comments and X owner Elon Musk agreed with a user who said she seemed “like a political activist who has taken over a scientific institution.”
She eventually apologized and deleted the comments.
“I made a series of offensive and inappropriate posts on my personal Bluesky account on election night, and I am sorry,” Helmuth wrote in a statement on Bluesky.
“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,” she continued.
“These posts of course do not reflect the position of Scientific American or my colleagues.
“I am committed to civil communication and editorial objectivity.”
Scientific American, which was founded in 1845, bills itself as “the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States.”
The outlet touts that it has run articles by more than 200 Nobel Prize winners.
It’s unclear why Scientific American has been so heavily politicized.
Parent company and publisher Springer Nature did not comment on Helmuth’s remarks or the outlet’s leftist agenda.
Helmuth was previously a health and science editor at the Washington Post.
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