SciAm has been compromised for a decade or more. It's just political opinion pieces now.
Yes, this becomes obvious once you start flipping through it and see all their pieces about "diversity". SciAm is dead now, a victim of the woke religion of hate.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flu-has-disappeared-worldwide-during-the-covid-pandemic/
A century of studies with massive sample sizes are wrong.
Also, the masks stopped the flu completely but not COVID. Even though the viruses are pretty much equally small.
Funny how that works.