A collection of 14 posts
Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Dr Karleen Gribble, who works in the field of maternal and infant health, on the impacts of desexed language on women’s healthcare and wellbeing.
Grant applications should be assessed on their scientific merits—not on the sex or political leanings of the applicant.
Some lived experiences are selected and elevated over others.
How dissent is policed in social science.
Had it actually been “following the science,” the CDC would have transparently communicated its uncertainty at every step.
Organisations should apply the principle evenhandedly.
Australia’s unnecessary new NHMRC policy will lead to a decline in scientific quality.
Identical twins, especially, are favorites when it comes to exploring identity and duality in dramatic and literary works.
The poor and worsening position of research is not self-correcting, and the sector needs to be redirected towards the solution of real world problems and developing an effective predictive capability.
The guidelines ethics committees follow present themselves as universal rules derived from reason.
The lack of ideological diversity seems to be vastly more pronounced in social research fields than underrepresentation in terms of gender, sexuality, and race.
Understanding these mechanisms can hopefully produce a broader sense of how ideologically motivated people are able to acquire and wield so much power.
The essay’s author and summit panelist, Toby Young, says he was blindsided at the sudden retraction two days after its publication.
The link between sex and dominance has a deep evolutionary history. The perennial battles between males over reproductive access to females fill the annals of natural history.