Jack Turban’s Dangerous Campaign to Smear Ethical Psychotherapy as Anti-Trans ‘Conversion Therapy’
A number of additional data irregularities in the USTS raise further questions about the quality of the data.
The Evolutionary History of Man's Best Friend Revealed
Dogs are the only domestic species who have been with us since the Pleistocene, which ended 11,500 years ago.
Razib Khan
· 7 min read
Philosophy Is Being Hijacked by Woke Twitter Mobs
Van Leeuwen and Herschbach wrote a statement on Facebook reiterating that the review process had been carried out properly, and declaring, “Efforts to silence unwelcome opinion… are doing a disservice to the community.”
Nathan Cofnas
· 6 min read
The Real Causes of Human Sex Differences
The prevailing view in the social and behavioral sciences is that human sex differences are typically small in magnitude, largely social in origin, and driven by gender roles (below).
David C. Geary
· 12 min read
At Dalhousie University, Ideology Comes First, Science Comes Second
We are entering a strange and unsettling period in the life of universities, and in the sciences, in particular.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
Radicalized Antiracism on Campus—as Seen from the Computer Lab
The University of Washington, like most schools, tracks the performance of student groups as part of its effort to enhance diversity and reduce inequality.
Stuart Reges
· 15 min read
The Bias that Divides Us
What our society is really suffering from is myside bias: People evaluate evidence, generate evidence, and test hypotheses in a manner biased toward their own prior beliefs, opinions, and attitudes.
Keith E. Stanovich
· 20 min read
Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School
The activists seeking to eliminate TJ’s meritocratic admissions systems attribute this latter result to systemic racism.
Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller
· 10 min read
Microbes on Venus May Herald Human Extinction (Though Not in the Way You Think)
Many of these cultures surely had their share of Elon Musks—beings who wished to colonize other worlds.
James D. Miller
· 8 min read
At the Intersection of Art and Science: Revisiting EO Wilson’s 'Consilience'
Artists and scientists have a reductionist’s idea of one another and perceive the other as a threat.
Clint Margrave
· 6 min read
The Myth of Harmonious Indigenous Conservationism
By 2014, Homo sapiens had, by the reckoning of the World Wildlife Fund, destroyed an incredible 60 percent of the wild mammal, bird, reptile, and fish populations that were in existence as recently as 1970.
Baz Edmeades
· 10 min read
International Scholars Must Resist the American Campaign to Inject Racial Tribalism Into Science
We retain the belief that, in supposedly pluralistic societies, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. We urge other scientists not to follow the American example, and to resist the campaign to racialize science.
Andreas Bikfalvi and Marcel Kuntz
· 8 min read
The Problems with Discrimination Research in Medicine
The narrative that has emerged from the conclusions of these limited studies could inadvertently cause some populations to avoid medical follow-up and form an inaccurate view of healthcare practices.
Zachary Robert Caverley
· 12 min read
What Computer-Generated Language Tells Us About Our Own Ideological Thinking
Thus, the ancient question of what separates humans from animals is the inverse of the more recent question of what separates humans from computers.
Cameron Harwick
· 10 min read
Why Have So Many American Conservatives Embraced COVID-19 Pseudoscience?
But what I’m describing here isn’t evidence-driven debate: It’s angry, ideologically driven luddite mysticism masquerading as hard-headed conservative skepticism.
Nidra Poller
· 7 min read