I lost interest in Sci Am in the late 1980s when they got bought by a German publishing conglomerate and started printing articles with process color instead of spot. For about a decade they were really struggling with the monthly columns like <i>The Amateur Scientist</i> and various replacements for Martin Gardener's <i>Mathematical Recreations</i> column.<p>I noticed they were "too woke" at least five years ago, like a lot of conservative commentators the authors of this article come across as slow on the draw. I see it as mildly annoying, like an obnoxious character in an anime that you might still watch anyway, not an existential threat to western civilization.