How Strong Was Taiwan’s COVID Response?
Taiwan’s COVID response will likely be remembered as one of the world’s best.
Ben Weinstein
· 13 min read
Science / Tech
A collection of 318 posts
Trauma and the Psychedelic Renaissance
Negative stereotypes about psychedelics are undergoing a reassessment.
James Jeffrey
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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.
Constantin Polychronakos
· 9 min read
Taboo: Why Is Africa the Global COVID ‘Cold Spot’ and Why Are We Afraid to Talk About It?
Africa has not been affected on anything like the scale of most countries in Asia, Europe, and North and South America.
Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle
· 21 min read
Raising Beef Cattle
It’s hard to imagine a more inaccurate description of the peace and contentment so apparent in this pastoral scene.
Tom Blanton
· 16 min read
Standing on the Shoulders of Ogres
The aim of antenatal screening is to discourage the birth of people with severe disabilities.
Sean Welsh
· 10 min read
Science Goes Rogue
Science as a discipline is supposed to be based on empirical evidence.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 8 min read
The End of Pestilence
The COVID-19 vaccine development experience shows it is possible to produce safe and effective vaccines much faster than previously thought.
Matthew Lesh
· 13 min read
Lockdown Scepticism Was Never a ‘Fringe’ Viewpoint
The Declaration states that achieving herd immunity for COVID-19 can be assisted by vaccines, “but is not dependent” on their use.
Noah Carl
· 11 min read