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
· 6 min read
Science / Tech
A collection of 377 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 13 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
· 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
· 10 min read
PODCAST 85: Dr Jemma Geoghegan on How Viruses Evolve and the Lessons We Can Learn About Social Distancing From Fish, Dogs and Rabbits
Listen onSpotify Dr Jemma Geoghegan, a virologist at the University of Otago, talks to Jonathan Kay about how viruses evolve and the lessons we can learn about social distancing from fish, dogs and rabbits. She is the co-author of several papers in evolutionary virology, including ‘Hidden diversity and evolution
Quillette
· 1 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
· 3 min read
Humanity's Greatest Foe: Pandemics Through the Ages
The blind struggle against infectious diseases began to end when the microscope allowed for the discovery of the bacilli responsible for anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera in the late 19th century.
Adam Rowe
· 12 min read