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A polar bear lies on a melting ice floe.

Saving the Animals

Assuring the long-term future of Earth’s wildlife requires more economic and technological development, not less.

Saul Zimet

13 Mar 2025 · 13 min read

Windmills in a field of corn at sunset (or sunrise)

The Green Energy Delusion

The current approach to energy and environmental policy isn’t just unsustainable—it has put us on a collision course with reality.

Paul Brown

4 Mar 2025 · 14 min read

Woman feels backache spine pain because of UTI

Misreading a Flawed Study

Vaccination against UTIs is a novel idea that holds enormous promise, but clinical trials must be well-designed and carefully analysed.

Geoffrey C. Kabat

10 Feb 2025 · 5 min read

The Great Divergence

Many psychological and behavioural gaps between men and women have widened in more gender-equal countries, dealing a major blow to sociological theories of sex differences.

David C. Geary / Lewis G. Halsey

4 Feb 2025 · 8 min read

A young mother holding her baby. Both have dark skin.

The Life and Death of a Medical Study

A 2015 study found that black newborns attended by white doctors die at twice the rate of those in the care of black doctors. The study’s refutation last year has not altered the progressive narrative of systemic racism in medicine.

Stewart Justman

27 Jan 2025 · 9 min read

A creepy blurred photo of a person's face and a furry hood.

The Psychologisation Pandemic

Denial of “invisible” suffering is bad science and worse ethics.

Samuel Kronen

4 Nov 2024 · 18 min read

An image of a bell curve and a woman’s face.

Why Is Most Journalism About IQ So Bad?

It is easy to create a negative image of intelligence research because most people know very little about the topic. But distorting intelligence research does a disservice to the field’s hard-working scientists and the general public.