Stop Equating Science with Truth
The message that liberates women is not: men and women are the same, and anyone who tells you different is oppressing you.
Heather E. Heying
· 7 min read
Liberalism in Peril
By using opposition to the illiberalism of Trump as a platform for their own illiberal politics, progressives risk dragging the Democratic Party into a populist cul-de-sac of its own.
Jamie Palmer
· 11 min read
The Google Memo — Four Scientists Respond
Psychological differences make equal outcomes impossible. Equality or diversity. You can’t have both.
Lee Jussim, Geoffrey Miller, David P Schmitt, Debra Soh
· 14 min read
Mental Health Disabilities as Legal Superpowers
Mental disorders are highly stigmatized conditions, but they have a hidden upside.
Geoffrey Miller
· 24 min read
The Islamist Decompression Chamber
Traditional militancy required careful selection, tests of loyalty, and secrecy.
Alexis Carre
· 9 min read
Best of the Web — 6th August 2017
Culture In Defence of the Bad, White Working Class Shannon Burns, Meanjin Gender Imbalances are Mostly Not Due to Offensive Attitudes SlateStarCodex Engineering Education: Social Engineering Rather than Actual Engineering Indrek Wichman, James G Martin Center for Academic Renewal Science National Identity Eases Cross-Cultural Trust Problems Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
Quillette
· 1 min read
Haunted Mind — The Stubborn Persistence of the Supernatural
According to polls, roughly half of people in the United States and Britain believe in ghosts. Furthermore, around 25% of people report having seen or been in the presence of a ghost.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 14 min read
Sociology's Stagnation, Part II — Genetic Confounding
Some economists predict that increasing government spending now, say on infrastructure projects, will “stimulate” the economy by putting money in workers’ pockets.
Jonathan Anomaly, Brian Boutwell
· 5 min read
When Philosophers Fail to Influence Public Debate — Can We Do Better?
As Plato noted, once one has ascended to the pinnacle of wisdom, or at least successfully defended a PhD thesis.
Simon Beard and Michael Plant
· 7 min read
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Importance of Taking AI Risks Seriously
With the very real possibility that such technology will be able to make changes to itself, even a slight diversion from goals that match our own could be disastrous.
Keiran Harris
· 6 min read
Traditionalists and Activists Are Both Wrong About Sex and Gender
The clearest evidence for this lack of a distinction is the fact that most individuals are cisgender (individuals whose gender identity aligns with their biological sex).
Gregory Gorelik
· 8 min read
Immigration, Justice, and Prosperity
This is not an argument against immigration in general. Instead, it suggests there are good reasons to be skeptical of arguments for open-borders.
Jonathan Anomaly
· 5 min read
The Future of Artificial Intelligence — Two Experts Disagree
The most obvious and useful examples of current AI are the speech recognition on your phone, and search engines such as Google.
Peter Stratton and Michael Milford
· 8 min read
Best of the Web — 28th July 2017
Culture A Secularist vs. the Progressive Faith Tom Wilson, Commentary Liu Xiaobo and Twitter’s Theatre of Radical Cruelty Jamie Palmer, Tablet Magazine Science Don’t Believe in God? Maybe You’ll try U.F.Os Clay Routledge, The New York Times First Human Embryos Edited in U.S. Steve
Quillette
· 1 min read
Richard Dawkins Celebrated by Activists and Ex-Muslims at London Conference
It is only the theocratic movement of Islamism that seeks to silence critics with character assassination, blasphemy laws, threat of riot and the dirty murder of cartoonists.
Alison Bevege
· 4 min read