Science / Tech
Guilty and Insane
Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility.
Should We Consider Aging a Disease?
Rethinking human “enhancement” in an era of sick-care.
The New Prohibition
The neuroscientific model of addiction is at odds with our freedom to experience the sensual life.
Cognitive Distortions
How the culture wars came for Wikipedia’s articles about human intelligence.
How We Can Get Clean Energy—What Needs to Be Done?
Editor's note: this is the third in a three-part series on how we can get clean energy. Part I explains the relationship between Fuel and Human Progress, Part II answers the question “Is Nuclear Power Safe?” and Part III provides an answer to “What Needs to Be Done?” Nuclear power
Musk and Moderation
Reports that Twitter has accepted Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company for $54.20 a share have provoked much handwringing about his attitudes to free speech, especially with respect to possible changes in the social media platform’s moderation policies. So far, the discussion has been a largely
The Ideological Aversion to Harm Reduction
Putting a patient under general anesthesia is a dangerous business. Waking a patient up from anesthesia is an ugly one. After I turn off the gas the patient typically thrashes and writhes like a sinner in Hell. Yet such resistance has never bothered me. I don’t want good and
