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What Is Autogynephilia? An Interview with Dr Ray Blanchard

Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem.

Louise Perry

6 Nov 2019 · 10 min read

The Danger Is Real: Why We’re All Wired for ‘Constructive Conspiracism’

In recent years, psychologists and political scientists have identified several factors that influence conspiratorial thinking, such as political orientation, race and power (or the lack thereof). These are proximate causes of conspiracism.

Michael Shermer

31 Oct 2019 · 10 min read

Confessions of a Social Constructionist

If I had known, 20 years ago, that my side in the ideological wars over gender and sex was going to win so decisively, I would have been ecstatic

Christopher Dummitt

17 Sep 2019 · 15 min read

Beyond the Hypatia Affair: Philosophers Blocking the Way of Inquiry

If some faction of philosophers are able to declare an issue decided—over screams of dissent from other philosophers—then we can expect others to follow the same playbook.

Spencer Case

6 Sep 2019 · 12 min read

Considering the Male Disposability Hypothesis

A 2016 study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science found that people are more willing to sacrifice men than women in a time of crisis and that they are more willing to inflict harm on men than on women.

Maria Kouloglou

3 Jun 2019 · 8 min read

Origins and Exploration—An Interview with Dr. Lewis Dartnell

One of the big questions in evolutionary biology is: what drove our evolution from tree-swinging apes to bipedal, highly intelligent homonins that went on to build civilization and inherit the world?

Logan Chipkin

30 May 2019 · 14 min read

Caricaturing the Left Doesn’t Benefit the Intellectual Dark Web

The danger for the IDW members is to think that they’re ideology-free while holding to a very distinct classical liberal ideology, and rationalising that apparent contradiction by convincing themselves that the left, which has largely moved on from classical liberalism, has simply gone crazy.

Uri Harris

27 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

Proposing that some gender imbalances in fields like physics might not be due to discrimination is like being a social scientist in the Soviet Union and proposing that some class differences aren’t due to discrimination.

Alessandro Strumia

16 Apr 2019 · 14 min read

How I Lost My Partner to a Parasite

"This monster isn’t David. It’s a parasite of some kind. You see, another consciousness inside him. This thing burrowed into David’s brain … and has been there, feeding off him ever since." - Loudermilk, FX Legion.

Maryam Henein

15 Apr 2019 · 13 min read

On the Eve of the Great Psychedelic Debate

The mint plant salvia divinorum exhibits powerful and unusual psychedelic effects and remains legal.

Matthew Blackwell

30 Mar 2019 · 21 min read

The Unspoken Homophobia Propelling the Transgender Movement in Children

Nowadays, every left-leaning parent and educator seems content to take a child’s word at face value if they say they were born in the wrong body, not realizing that by doing so, an important conversation is being brushed aside.

Debra Soh

23 Oct 2018 · 6 min read

The Limits of Expertise

People value expertise in closed systems, but are distrustful of expertise in open systems.

Alex Smith

4 Jun 2018 · 7 min read

Racism and Underdetermination by Evidence

The Starbucks incident parallels one of the historical cruces of the scientific revolution.

James Collin and Anthony Bolos

1 Jun 2018 · 11 min read

“Tired, Old Myths:” The New Republic Slanders Jung

The ignoble tradition of Jung-bashing has had a steady following by lazy minds ever since, most recently evidenced in Jeet Heer’s article, Jordan Peterson’s Tired Old Myths.

Joseph Lee and Lisa Marchiano with Deborah Stewart

1 Jun 2018 · 5 min read

Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man?

For those who believe that gender is a social construct, and there are no differences between men and women’s brains, this paper is something of a reality check.

Toby Young

24 May 2018 · 11 min read