The Fall of ‘Nature’
A once-respected journal has announced that it will be subordinating science to ideology.
Bo Winegard
· 12 min read
Science / Tech
A collection of 371 posts
Tinder and Toxicity
Why Lonely Single Men Should Delete Dating Apps.
Domanic Towers
· 7 min read
We Won’t Force Addicts to Change
We are wasting tremendous resources on ineffective, mandatory approaches to addiction.
Craig K. Svensson
· 14 min read
Apple’s Depressing Denouement
A review of ‘After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul,’ by Tripp Mickle (Morrow/HarperCollins, 2022).
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Guilty and Insane
Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility.
Daniel Kriegman
· 20 min read
Should We Consider Aging a Disease?
Rethinking human “enhancement” in an era of sick-care.
Raiany Romanni
· 6 min read
The New Prohibition
The neuroscientific model of addiction is at odds with our freedom to experience the sensual life.
Ronald W. Dworkin
· 10 min read
Cognitive Distortions
How the culture wars came for Wikipedia’s articles about human intelligence.
Shuichi Tezuka
· 24 min read
The Metaverse: Science Fiction or Reality?
We tend to overestimate a technology’s abilities in the near term, and massively underestimate what it can do in the long term.
Randall Mayes
· 9 min read
The Burden of the Best?
From self-belief to self-care.
Steve Salerno
· 13 min read
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?
Robert Zubrin
· 12 min read
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
Jim Rutt
· 11 min read
The Ideological Aversion to Harm Reduction
Progress has stalled in two major areas of harm reduction—opioid abuse and smoking—not because of physician resistance but because of non-physicians drunk on ideology.
Ronald W. Dworkin
· 9 min read
It May Not Be Possible to Achieve Racial Equity in American Scientific Research
“NIH Stands Against Structural Racism in Biomedical Research.” This was the title of a statement released on March 1st, 2021, by Francis S. Collins, who was then the Director of the National Institutes of Health. The statement continued: As a science agency, we know that bringing diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and
Robert J. Morris
· 10 min read
‘As We See It’ and the Changing Discussion About Autism
The show frankly acknowledges issues frequently haunting persons on the autism spectrum.
Jonathan Mitchell
· 6 min read