Podcast: The Journal Science Doesn't Know What a Scientist Is

By Cameron English and ChuckDinerstein — Jun 27, 2024
Holden Thorp, editor of the once-prestigious academic journal 'Science,' has made many strange claims in recent years, including the assertion that anybody involved in or adjacent to science (a journalist, policy wonk and perhaps even an activist) is actually a scientist. ACSH's Dr. Henry Miller calls shenanigans.
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Join Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 78 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss why

The editor-in-chief of a preeminent scientific journal should know what a "scientist" is – and isn't. Holden Thorp, the editor of the journal Science, does not.

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Cameron English

Director of Bioscience 

Cameron English is a writer, editor and co-host of the Science Facts and Fallacies Podcast. Before joining ACSH, he was managing editor at the Genetic Literacy Project.

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