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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.

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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