The Psychologisation Pandemic Denial of “invisible” suffering is bad science and worse ethics. Samuel Kronen 4 Nov 2024 · 18 min read
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
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? Greater male variability, biology, and bell curves. Theodore P. Hill 25 Oct 2024 · 18 min read
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 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 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 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
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
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 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
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
One Year Since the AI Pause Petition Just because we can imagine something terrible happening, that does not mean it will happen. Mathias Sundin 22 Mar 2024 · 10 min read
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Covid Pandemic Overselling Covid vaccines during the pandemic has backfired and played into the hands of the anti-vaccine movement. Roger Bate 15 Mar 2024 · 10 min read
Identity Satiation Some rarely discussed phenomena can shed light on why the focus on identity and introspection has coincided with a rise of mental health issues, including identity disorders. Brandon McMurtrie 8 Mar 2024 · 6 min read
