Selective Pressure, Selective Silence
David Reich and the politics of recent human evolution.
Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle
· 14 min read
Science / Tech
A collection of 373 posts
Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion
What is consciousness for?
Sean Welsh
· 10 min read
Why AI Is Not About to Go Feral
Worries about AI doom rarely take Darwinian evolution seriously. A new paper argues we should—but we are still further from that scenario than its authors suggest.
Maarten Boudry
· 13 min read
How a UN Agency Misled the World on Cancer Risk
Nathan Schachtman’s indispensable new paper explains how the International Agency for Research on Cancer has misled the public with its classifications of carcinogens.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 11 min read
The Science Misinformation Gap
The transatlantic battle over social media and censorship.
Jon Entine
· 8 min read
Creators and Destroyers of Worlds
Despite the dangers, we must seize the gifts bequeathed by world-altering technologies, since these amount to life in unprecedented abundance.
Ian Nieves
· 9 min read
“Too Much Science in the Curriculum”
Tragicomic scenes from reparations-based medicine.
Steve Salerno
· 18 min read
Apocalypse Soon?
Earth Day once helped focus public attention on real environmental problems. Today it is a festival of alarmism, misanthropy, technophobia, and moral theatrics.
Henry I. Miller
· 8 min read
Move 37 and the Coming Mindhack
What happens when human manipulation arrives at its Claude Mythos moment?
Michael Morgenstern
· 15 min read
AI and the Wiki Wars
The Wikipedia knowledge monopoly is not ready for the Grokipedia threat.
Russell T. Warne
· 16 min read
A Costly Misconception
Now that glyphosate has become a national-security issue, it’s time to revisit the source of misinformation about this controversial herbicide.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 10 min read
AI Is Not About To Become Sentient
Most of today’s “artificial intelligence” is better described as artificial autocomplete than artificial mind.
Peter L. Levin
· 5 min read
The Innovation Trap
The central risk of AI is not that machines will become malevolent. It is that human incentive structures, amplified by scalable technology, outrun our ability to govern them.
Carlton Bell
· 13 min read
The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026)
The contributions of Robert Trivers belong in the special category of ideas that are obvious once they are explained, yet eluded great minds for ages; simple enough to be stated in a few words, yet with implications that have busied scientists for decades.
Steven Pinker
· 15 min read
James Cameron Goes Native
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ is a Rousseau-esque oikophobic fantasy of evil humans and noble savage aliens.
William Barker
· 7 min read