An Unscientific American
Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology.
Michael Shermer
· 12 min read
science
A collection of 9 posts
The Overregulation of Science
Overly burdensome rules dampen enthusiasm for research and delay scientific progress.
Evan D Morris
· 11 min read
PODCAST 98: Physicist Lawrence Krauss on Why Identity Politics Should be Kept Out of Science
Renowned physicist Lawrence Krauss talks to Jonathan Kay about his Quillette essay Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem and explains why he expressed skepticism about the sincerity of the #strike4blacklives campaign supported by so many science organisations.
Quillette, Lawrence M. Krauss
· 1 min read
A Bolt in the Dark
The chaos of any moment, especially of a moment that requires one to spend a great deal of time alone, is an opportunity to engage with this deliberative way of living.
Erik Sheagren
· 10 min read
Superior: The Return of Race Science—A Review
It is reasonably entertaining to read, and does make some valid points about the misuse of “race science.” Unfortunately, it is also tendentious, dogmatic, and seriously misleading about the current state of scientific knowledge.
Bo Winegard, Noah Carl
· 21 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
· 14 min read
Motivated Reasoning Is Disfiguring Social Science
The bottom line is that professional guilds such as the APA and AAP have a demonstrable track record of unreliability when speaking on matters of science.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 8 min read
The Uncharted Territories of Medically Transitioning Children
Are we venturing into dragon territory with the transitional therapies increasingly made available to transgender youth?
Donna Reynolds
· 16 min read
Is Sociogenomics Racist?
Those scientists who want to draw attention to the racial bias in genetic research but who don’t want to acknowledge the scientific validity of race are in a tricky position.
Toby Young
· 22 min read