What Good Is Evolutionary Psychology?
Without an understanding of the selection pressures that shaped our minds, much of human existence is frustratingly bewildering.
Tristan Flock
· 7 min read
Is Sociogenomics Racist?
Those scientists who want to draw attention to the racial bias in genetic research but who don’t want to acknowledge the scientific validity of race are in a tricky position.
Toby Young
· 22 min read
Keeping it Casual
Girls are taught that sex without love is a meaningless experience, boys that, as meaningless experiences go, it’s a pretty damn good one.
Steve Stewart-Williams
· 16 min read
Moral Pollution In Place of Reasoned Critique
They offered many reasons why the person should not be trusted or liked, but failed to offer reasons why the person was wrong.
Pamela Paresky
· 13 min read
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Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Linda Gottfredson’s Scientific Keynote Cancelled: Why?
A profound discomfort with empirical findings emerging from intelligence research lies at the heart of the disinvitation.
Rosalind Arden
· 5 min read
Do Advocacy Groups Belong in Academia?
Science seeks to explain the world, but explanation conflicts with condemnation, which is an important component of injustice and in turn advocacy.
Uri Harris
· 11 min read
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Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
The Curious Reemergence of Little Platoons
Seventy-seven percent of respondents in a recent study from Vanderbilt University rated their political opponents as “less-evolved” than members of their own party.
Alexandra Hudson
· 4 min read
On the Fallibility of Memory and the Importance of Evidence
As individuals making personal judgments about the truthfulness of Kavanaugh and Ford, we are not held to the same standards as our justice system.
Tyler Watkins
· 18 min read
The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond
The authors have pulled off a modern Sokal hoax. The sequel is rarely as good as the original, but in this case it was more comprehensive and more fun than Sokal’s mockery of postmodernist scholarship.
Quillette
· 16 min read
What 'The Coddling of the American Mind' Gets Wrong About Early Education
Young people are told to trust their feelings, that what doesn’t kill them makes them weaker and that the world can be divided into goodies and baddies.
Greg Ashman
· 8 min read
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Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Western Civilisation "Not Welcome Here"
The new humanities maintain that for the last 500 years, Western Civilisation has got it wrong when it comes to knowledge, truth and science.
Bella d'Abrera
· 8 min read
Forget Nature Versus Nurture. Nature Has Won
Plomin tries to present this cascade of new information about the genetic influence on human behavior in a way that will positively affect human behavior – but his own work suggests the impact of such arguments will be limited.
Gregory Cochran
· 7 min read