Artificially Intelligent Offense? ChatGPT has been programmed to avoid giving accurate information if it may cause offense. Lawrence M. Krauss 21 Feb 2023 · 12 min read
Anti-Male Bias at the NHMRC Imposing gender quotas for research funding is counterproductive and sets a dangerous new precedent. Lawrence M. Krauss 20 Oct 2022 · 5 min read
Fund Science on the Basis of Scientists‘ Work, Not Their Identity The available numbers don’t tell us if there was any evidence of systemic bias in the underlying grant criteria, or in the evaluation of applications against those criteria. Lawrence M. Krauss 17 Dec 2021 · 6 min read
An Astronomer Cancels His Own Research—Because the Results Weren’t Popular Astronomy seems to be in trouble, as it is increasingly populated by researchers who seem more concerned with terrestrial politics than celestial objects, and who at times view the search for truths about nature as threatening. This became obvious in recent years, once the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project Lawrence M. Krauss 10 Nov 2021 · 10 min read
Tales From the Gulag The administration, well-aware of these defamatory messages, did not refute them or even address their impropriety with the perpetrators of the misinformation. Lawrence M. Krauss 2 Nov 2021 · 11 min read
Necessity Is the Mother of Invention, and Has Been for Over 3,500 Years And that is an ancient cultural surprise worth celebrating. Far more than imaginary Gods, Ravens, and Spirits. Lawrence M. Krauss 13 Aug 2021 · 4 min read
Whatever It Is, It Ain’t Aliens From my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence. ~Richard P. Feynman, The Character Lawrence M. Krauss 7 Jul 2021 · 6 min read
In Defense of the Universal Values of Science Until recently, it seemed inconceivable to imagine that any physical or biological scientists could become so misguided as to argue against the empirical basis of their own fields. Lawrence M. Krauss 2 Jun 2021 · 4 min read
Why Climate Science Is Like the Rest of Science Recent White House initiatives suggest that addressing climate change has risen to the policy forefront of government at the presidential level for the first time in US history. Last week President Biden convened an online international meeting of heads of state on the issue and committed the US to a Lawrence M. Krauss 1 May 2021 · 6 min read
Science Goes Rogue Science as a discipline is supposed to be based on empirical evidence. Lawrence M. Krauss 14 Mar 2021 · 8 min read
Making the Profane Sacred It is an attack on the free reporting of information if context no longer matters, and it is an attack on education if a respectful discussion about language itself risks dismissal. Lawrence M. Krauss 11 Feb 2021 · 6 min read
Why Is Scientific Illiteracy So Acceptable? The Enlightenment was well-named because it led to a greater understanding of ourselves, our society, and our environment, and was accompanied by the rise of the scientific method. Lawrence M. Krauss 23 Nov 2020 · 7 min read
PODCAST 98: Physicist Lawrence Krauss on Why Identity Politics Should be Kept Out of Science Renowned physicist Lawrence Krauss talks to Jonathan Kay about his Quillette essay Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem and explains why he expressed skepticism about the sincerity of the #strike4blacklives campaign supported by so many science organisations. Quillette / Lawrence M. Krauss 4 Jul 2020 · 1 min read
Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem There are fewer tenured black physicists at universities and laboratories because there are fewer black PhD physicists. Lawrence M. Krauss 3 Jul 2020 · 11 min read
