Science / Tech - Quillette (Page 13)

As Statues Fall, What's the Best Way to Evaluate History's Heroes?

One possibility is that morality is dependent on local circumstances and facts about social order and organization.

Steven D. Hales

16 Jul 2020 · 7 min read

Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem

There are fewer tenured black physicists at universities and laboratories because there are fewer black PhD physicists.

Lawrence M. Krauss

3 Jul 2020 · 11 min read

On Steve Hsu and the Campaign to Thwart Free Inquiry

It is not unreasonable to consider avoiding research that risks creating unmanageable divisions.

Peter Toshev

1 Jul 2020 · 6 min read

Reducing the Chance of New Pandemics

To call SARS-CoV-2 the “pandemic of the century” is a figure of speech, and an optimistic one at that.

Javier Arcos Hódar

1 Jul 2020 · 15 min read

The Need for Scientific Caution in the New Space Race

On May 30th, 2020, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA’s facility at Cape Canaveral. Hidden in the roar of the thrusters was the crack of a starting gun for the second era of human expansion: The era of private crewed space exploration was on. During the last

Michael Shilo DeLay and Anastasia Bendebury

26 Jun 2020 · 7 min read

COVID-19 and the College Football Debate

Most healthcare experts basically agree that there is still too much uncertainty about COVID-19 to play football safely this fall.

Daniel McGraw

25 Jun 2020 · 13 min read

Rethinking Health Disparities

True progress in medicine can only be accomplished when we maintain a consistent standard of scientific excellence and honest inquiry.

Zachary Robert Caverley

24 Jun 2020 · 11 min read

Exploring 'Other Ways of Knowing': The New Religious Threat to Science Education

In its most elaborate form, EDI subjects science to the same treatment as has already been meted out to the Western literary canon: a relentless deconstruction whereby each axiom, value, and commitment is presented as infected by cultural imperialism.

Lenny Pier Ramos

20 Jun 2020 · 12 min read

Reassessing the Guidance on Face Masks

Overly broad masking requirements are at best useless, and possibly harmful, since they can cause confusion and prompt at least some to rebel against masking if the practice is too onerous or impractical.

Dagfinn Reiersøl

17 Jun 2020 · 7 min read

The Ever-Shrinking Transistor and the Invention of Google

The developments of the search engine and social media follow the usual path of innovation: incremental, gradual, serendipitous, and inexorable; few eureka moments or sudden breakthroughs.

Matt Ridley

15 Jun 2020 · 14 min read

Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class—A Review

Charles Murray believes in the values of Enlightenment: science and knowledge, truth and progress.

Dario Maestripieri

9 Jun 2020 · 8 min read

JK Rowling Is Right—Sex Is Real and It Is Not a "Spectrum"

Biological sex in humans is a binary system.

Colin Wright

7 Jun 2020 · 14 min read

How Innovation Works—A Review

Ridley presents an inspiring view of history, because we are not merely the passive recipients of thousands of years of innovations. We can contribute to this endless chain of progress, if we so choose.

Logan Chipkin

29 May 2020 · 8 min read

A Bolt in the Dark

The chaos of any moment, especially of a moment that requires one to spend a great deal of time alone, is an opportunity to engage with this deliberative way of living.

Erik Sheagren

27 May 2020 · 10 min read

Social Distancing and Stay-Home Orders Are Likely To Save Millions

It was only after coronavirus proved so much more deadly in China and Italy that governments outside of Asia took dramatic actions including radical social distancing and stay-at-home orders.

Michael Shellenberger

26 Mar 2020 · 3 min read