Science / Tech - Quillette (Page 10)

Understanding the Unidentified

With the decline of religious belief over the past century, perhaps this is what lies behind this quest to understand the unidentified.

Michael Shermer

3 Jun 2021 · 22 min read

In Defense of the Universal Values of Science

Until recently, it seemed inconceivable to imagine that any physical or biological scientists could become so misguided as to argue against the empirical basis of their own fields.

Lawrence M. Krauss

2 Jun 2021 · 4 min read

How Strong Was Taiwan’s COVID Response?

Taiwan’s COVID response will likely be remembered as one of the world’s best.

Ben Weinstein

1 Jun 2021 · 13 min read

Trauma and the Psychedelic Renaissance

Negative stereotypes about psychedelics are undergoing a reassessment.

James Jeffrey

22 May 2021 · 10 min read

The Social Determinants of Health: Critique and Implications

This overreach of public health also bleeds into the educational sector, where schooling is yet another SDOH requiring intervention.

Zachary Robert Caverley

13 May 2021 · 12 min read

Why Climate Science Is Like the Rest of Science

Recent White House initiatives suggest that addressing climate change has risen to the policy forefront of government at the presidential level for the first time in US history. Last week President Biden convened an online international meeting of heads of state on the issue and committed the US to a

Lawrence M. Krauss

1 May 2021 · 6 min read

Interrogating Jane

In fact, the single most common technique for insisting that Austen is anti-slavery is for the critic to draw an equivalence between slavery and her depiction of social class, or her portrayal of the status of women.

Lona Manning

26 Apr 2021 · 12 min read

The White of the AI

The essence of AI is not white oppression, racism, sexism, and colonialism, it is the automation of mathematics and logic.

Sean Welsh

23 Apr 2021 · 9 min read

The Fear and Fantasy of COVID-19 Vaccination

The politicization and generation of narratives surrounding the coronavirus (and ensuing governmental responses) funneled information flow into partitions based on political affiliation.

Iosif M. Gershteyn

10 Apr 2021 · 8 min read

The Transhumanist Case for Liberty

The pursuit of material immortality, even if material immortality cannot be realized, is the most reasonable long-term course of civilization; it’s thus the busywork of humanity.

Mark Goldblatt

8 Apr 2021 · 15 min read

Diversity, Inclusion, and Academic Freedom: The Case of Gender Biology

But it is sad to see established facts now suppressed along with undesirable beliefs and opinions. And to see our institutions of higher learning being led to this kind of neo-obscurantism in the name of enlightened social attitudes.