'At the end of the day, scientific journals are welcome to endorse whichever political candidates they’d like, but they should forgo any claims to science, impartiality, or objectivity in doing so,' DrDebraSoh writes.
that day, showing that electoral endorsement by scientific journals may lead to a loss in public trust.of Joe Biden for the presidential election, or alternatively, details about the journal’s recent layout and logo redesign.
As someone who left the academic sciences due to the politicization of research, I can only chuckle sadly at witnessing where intellectual inquiry is headed. Scientists are only human, yes, but a good scientist, regardless of one's voting record, will try to be aware of personal biases and intentionally seek out ways of correcting for them. Mixing science with politics is anathema to the scientific method because unbiased science does not neatly support one political candidate or another.
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