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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.

Russell T. Warne

30 Oct 2024 · 13 min read

A sad-looking teen boy with light brown skin, of African American appearance.

Racial Disparities and Child Protection

The politicisation of medicine has had terrible unintended consequences.

Naomi Schaefer Riley

30 Oct 2024 · 8 min read

Males in the Tails?

Males in the Tails?

Greater male variability, biology, and bell curves.

Theodore P. Hill

25 Oct 2024 · 18 min read

Selling Happiness Through Illusions

Selling Happiness Through Illusions

The caring industry’s wellness and positivity products cannot provide self-esteem to those who do not already have it.

Ronald W. Dworkin

30 Aug 2024 · 15 min read

XY Athletes in Women’s Olympic Boxing: The Paris 2024 Controversy Explained

XY Athletes in Women’s Olympic Boxing: The Paris 2024 Controversy Explained

The historical, political, and medical context of the Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting cases.

Doriane Lambelet Coleman

3 Aug 2024 · 13 min read

‘Superintelligence,’ Ten Years On

‘Superintelligence,’ Ten Years On

AI catastrophe is easy to imagine, but a lot has to go consistently and infallibly wrong for the doom theory to pan out.

Sean Welsh

2 Jul 2024 · 12 min read

Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time

Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time

The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year.

Frank Celia

17 Jun 2024 · 17 min read

An abstract photo of a woman looking through an astronaut helmet with a reflection of planets in the glass.

The Future of the Space Industry

The privatisation of space travel is cutting the cost of rocket launches and powering innovation.

Rainer Zitelmann

26 May 2024 · 12 min read

An AI generated image of a man staring face to face with a robot.

ChatGPT’s Moral Compass

We hear much talk of “aligning AI with human values” but relatively little delineation of what these values are.

Sean Welsh

20 May 2024 · 15 min read

From Caregivers to Social Reformers

From Caregivers to Social Reformers

Directing physicians to treat their patients as racial statistics rather than an individuals is a grievous misdirection of their skills.

Ronald A. Lindsay

13 May 2024 · 12 min read

Crown of a nuclear bomb explosion over Mururoa atoll, French Polynesia, Pacific Ocean

The End of the World as We Know It

Far from enhancing American national security, or the security of the world, nuclear weapons will lead us to the edge of destruction.

Lawrence M. Krauss

6 May 2024 · 7 min read