Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health A look back on the 2003 BMJ controversy over passive smoking and mortality. Geoffrey C. Kabat 15 Sep 2023 · 20 min read
Unconscious Bias in Medicine: A Canard Evidence that clinical decisions are driven by unconscious bias remains conspicuously lacking. Stewart Justman 5 Sep 2023 · 7 min read
Should We Stay or Should We Go? Humanity and the Final Frontier. Joseph Grosso 28 Aug 2023 · 19 min read
Medications Can Help Keep Alcoholics Sober. Why Are They Being Ignored? Affordable, safe, generic anticonvulsants restore homeostasis to the brains of chronic drinkers, but they are not being promoted. Frank Celia 28 Aug 2023 · 6 min read
As a Hereditarian, I Strongly Support Economic Redistribution A recognition that genetic influences on social outcomes are important will potentially influence the kind of help that society offers poorer individuals. But it does not in any way compel an absence of help, or a casual indifference. Gregory Clark 21 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
Talk Therapy’s Moral Morass Should mental-health care strive to be ethically neutral? Robert T. Fancher 17 Aug 2023 · 16 min read
The European Union Is Finally Coming Around to Gene-Edited Seeds For a quarter century, activists such as Vandana Shiva have opposed GM crops that can help feed the world. Now, more than ever, it’s time to reject their Luddite demands Zion Lights 14 Aug 2023 · 14 min read
Beware Psychotherapy That Works Much has been written about the problems caused by therapy when it fails. Less discussed are the problems it can cause when it succeeds. Steve Salerno 8 Aug 2023 · 11 min read
Faith Goes to Switzerland When should we allow a person to hasten her own death? Brent M. Kious / Margaret Pabst Battin 7 Aug 2023 · 24 min read
AIs Will Be Our Mind Children We must free our artificial descendants to adapt to their new worlds and choose what they will become. Robin Hanson 6 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’? A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film. Robert Zubrin 1 Aug 2023 · 9 min read
Humanity Should Split More Atoms The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear. Lea Booth 7 Jul 2023 · 7 min read
Animal Liberation Later Most consumers of meat know that animals matter, but they choose to act as if this isn’t the case. Matt Johnson 30 Jun 2023 · 12 min read
What Lies Beneath In ‘The Hidden Spring,’ psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises. Sean Welsh 23 Jun 2023 · 13 min read
If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract How dissent is policed in social science. Jukka Savolainen 18 Jun 2023 · 10 min read
