Shouting someone down for speaking a thought in public effectively ends the critical discussion. There can be no further exploration of why the idea at issue is wrong, or what kernel of truth there may be therein.
The evidence that men are more violent and more criminal than women is overwhelming, and yet it doesn’t imply that all men are violent, deserve to be incarcerated, or are undeserving of our sympathy or compassion if they are imprisoned.
As chilling effects go, “I would speak out, but I don’t want to risk going to jail” is not all that different from “I would speak out, but I don’t want to risk losing my friends and my livelihood.”
The “Lorax” view of environmental problems as a consequence of greed has always been wrong and depressing.
Not only had Carrell hurt the feelings of the Iranian people, but he had hurt the feelings of Muslims all over the world. There would be consequences.
Value judgments seem inevitable in trying to establish the relative comparisons between drugs, and any attempt to compare apples and oranges will inevitably fall short of the scientist’s objective goals.
Paradise was as real to us as a memory—and even though it wasn’t something concrete, our minds were already there in it.
Global warming is a tragedy of the commons, in which logical agents act in ways that run counter to the longterm interests of the group.
The message in Appropriate Terminology, Indigenous Australian People is that the UNSW now regards its core mission—the pursuit of truth—as negotiable if it conflicts with the postures associated with social justice.
I was a child in the 1960s, and I embraced Apollo as the adventure of all time
The YouTube-rabbit-hole phenomenon will undoubtedly continue to radicalize certain individuals. But give it time, let the churn machine keep churning.
This isn’t the first time this has happened in video game research.
Still, the universe is full of things that seem irrefutably evident and yet can’t be well explained or understood.
Essays attacking the left- or right-wing bias of this or that media outlet are, of course, old hat in my business.
Moreover, the conclusion that harassment drives women from physics contradicts publicly available data on the progression of women in physics careers.