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Why the Left must take human evolution seriously.

18 Feb 2024 · 22 min read

Ignoring Biological Reality Puts Female Hockey Players at Risk

A frightening injury at an NHL-sponsored transgender tournament in Wisconsin reminds us why women’s leagues should remain sex-protected spaces.

Jonathan Kay

9 Dec 2022 · 12 min read

Brute Physical Facts and Social Construction

The progressive and the traditionalist are equally detached from the underlying reality as currently described by science.

Vinod Goel

6 Dec 2022 · 12 min read

Disc Golf’s Lia Thomas Moment

As a biologically male player continues a meteoric rise on the female circuit, women are starting to speak out.

Jonathan Kay

28 Sep 2022 · 19 min read

Misunderstanding Equality

If confusion between moral and empirical claims persists, we will find ourselves asked to choose between the truth and our ethical preferences.

Bo Winegard

26 Sep 2022 · 11 min read

Gender Ideology Comes to Germany

In June, my co-authors and I published an article describing the reality of biological sex. The resulting controversy persists to this day.

Uwe Steinhoff

20 Jul 2022 · 7 min read

The Peculiar Economics of 3D Printing

Most new technologies, when they are launched, arrive with a lot of hype. While 3D printing fits the business model for customized products, it is not yet cost effective in a commercial manufacturing sector which requires mass production.

Randall Mayes

21 Dec 2021 · 10 min read

Male and Female Athletic Performance: Worlds Apart

The different physical attributes of males and females have functional consequences for sports-relevant outputs.

Jon Pike, Emma Hilton, and Leslie A. Howe

11 Dec 2021 · 8 min read

The Many Faces of Scientific Fraud

Everyday fudging of experimental data in laboratories cannot exclusively be explained by researchers’ desire to get an intuited result in a better-than-perfect form, as was the case with Mendel, or to distinguish themselves through the accuracy of their measurements, as with Millikan.

Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis

21 Dec 2019 · 12 min read

Sex Differences, Gender, and Competitive Sport

What are the physiological and anatomical differences between men and women that affect performance?

Andrew Langford

5 Apr 2019 · 13 min read

What Light Does ‘Three Identical Strangers’ Throw on the Nature/Nurture Debate?

It seems fitting that twins (1) come in two types, (2) are fascinating at two levels and (3) enhance understanding of human development in two ways.

Nancy L. Segal

26 Mar 2019 · 10 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

25 Sep 2018 · 7 min read