On Sex and Gender, The New England Journal of Medicine Has Abandoned Its Scientific Mission
The very idea of “a dichotomous sex-classification system” is dubious, the authors believe.
Colin Wright
· 14 min read
Health
A collection of 173 posts
Like It Or Not, Keira Bell Has Opened Up a Real Conversation About Gender Dysphoria
In the debate about transitioning children who experience gender dysphoria, Ms. Bell’s case represents an important turning point.
Quillette
· 9 min read
My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did
Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.
Edie Wyatt
· 12 min read
Desperation and the Quest for Control: The Dangers of Alternative Medicine
Contrary to popular opinion, alternative medicine is not always harmless, and when patients use it instead of conventional medical treatment, it can even be deadly.
S. Stiles
· 16 min read
On the Cusp of a Vaccine—and a Historic Scientific Triumph
What is unique about our time is not “the awful spectacle of men dying like sheep,” as Thucydides put it, but the success of scientists in bringing many such spectacles to an end.
Quillette
· 11 min read
Totally Under Control—A Review
Totally Under Control is squarely focused on the bungling, mismanagement, and incoherence of the Trump administration.
Razib Khan
· 14 min read
Gender Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why is Silicon Valley Helping Them?
This is what censorship looks like in 21st-century America.
Abigail Shrier
· 9 min read
R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear
We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics.
Sky Gilbert
· 8 min read
Jack Turban’s Dangerous Campaign to Smear Ethical Psychotherapy as Anti-Trans ‘Conversion Therapy’
A number of additional data irregularities in the USTS raise further questions about the quality of the data.
The Coming Post-COVID Global Order
The pandemic crisis is rapidly becoming a civilizational crisis.
Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger
· 11 min read
Dr. Norman C. Wang and Selective Outrage
Our profession functions well because constructive criticism, the need for empirical data, and a willingness to change have hitherto been so deeply entrenched.
Zachary Robert Caverley
· 10 min read
Patient Safety and the Medical Omerta
The sharp decline in popularity of the Catholic Church shows how difficult it is for public trust to be regained once power is abused—if the medical profession does not take its responsibility to protect patients more seriously it risks losing this trust.
Habib Rahman
· 11 min read
The China Syndrome Part IV: Did China Fudge its COVID-19 Data?
Hatred of the Chinese regime has become so strong and pervasive in the West—especially in the US, where China is seen as its main geopolitical foe—that it creates incentives that allow unsubstantiated allegations to spread largely unchecked.
Philippe Lemoine
· 26 min read
The China Syndrome Part III: Wet Markets and BioLabs
In any case, the virus eventually reached Huanan Seafood Market, which served as a springboard from which the virus spread to the rest of Wuhan, and eventually across the entire world.
Philippe Lemoine
· 32 min read
The China Syndrome Part II: Transmission and Response
The human rights record of the Chinese Communist Party provides ample evidence of its capacity for repression and cruelty, and therefore ample opportunities for condemnation.
Philippe Lemoine
· 37 min read