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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

21 Nov 2024 · 12 min read

The Overregulation of Science

Overly burdensome rules dampen enthusiasm for research and delay scientific progress.

Evan D Morris

24 Feb 2023 · 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

4 Jul 2020 · 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

27 May 2020 · 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

5 Jun 2019 · 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

16 Apr 2019 · 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

23 Feb 2019 · 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

29 Dec 2018 · 16 min read

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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

15 Oct 2018 · 22 min read