Concordia University 'Decolonises' Engineering
This will mark out the university as a place to avoid if you’re hoping for a serious education.
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The Return of the Creationists
How can we expect political sense or reason from people who cannot distinguish empirical reality from ancient myth?
The Sex of Skeletons
To suggest that a spirited discussion of the importance of sex and gender in archeology threatens “scientific integrity” is to misunderstand the nature of science.
Charles Darwin: The Best Scientist-Writer of All Time
The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one.
Academia’s Missing Men
Men are disappearing from science and academia. The public perception is, however, exactly the opposite.
Campus Puritans Come for an Astronomer—And His Byline
By demanding that morality tests be imposed on scientific journal authorship, Geoff Marcy’s critics are creating a dangerous precedent.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being
The American Physical Society views the existence of White Privilege in physics as being both scientific and not scientific.
How Do We Define ‘Life’?
An excerpt from 'The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos.'
Astrobiology: The Rise and Fall of a Nascent Science
Premature claims, distorted results, and ‘decolonizing’ the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Words Don’t Matter
We have power over words, not vice versa.
Artificially Intelligent Offense?
ChatGPT has been programmed to avoid giving accurate information if it may cause offense.
Anti-Male Bias at the NHMRC
Imposing gender quotas for research funding is counterproductive and sets a dangerous new precedent.