Robert Kemp Adair (1924–2020)—Notes on a Friendship Reflections on the life and work of a superb scientist, for whom integrity and rigor were paramount. Geoffrey C. Kabat 12 Jan 2024 · 19 min read
Stupidity as Moral Negligence Those guilty of political stupidity do not necessarily suffer from a lack of reasoning skills. J.P. de Ruiter 10 Jan 2024 · 9 min read
Mortuary Archaeology Death, DNA, and the culture wars. Jon Entine / Patrick Whittle 29 Dec 2023 · 14 min read
To Accelerate or Decelerate AI: That is the Question Explaining the “accel/decel” split at the heart of the OpenAI power struggle. Sean Welsh / Michael Timothy Bennett 18 Dec 2023 · 13 min read
Introducing Justapedia A new alternative to Wikipedia has arrived. Can it succeed where others have failed? Shuichi Tezuka 11 Dec 2023 · 24 min read
Why We Should Settle Mars Space exploration will bring us inventions that benefit humanity. And it will help us avoid war. Robert Zubrin 4 Dec 2023 · 13 min read
Forget About Overpopulation, Soon There Will Be Too Few Humans The more people there are, the more solutions to problems will be found. Maarten Boudry 7 Nov 2023 · 8 min read
Robert Sapolsky is Wrong A new book about free will fails to offer an original argument or make a convincing case. Stuart Doyle 6 Nov 2023 · 13 min read
Who Should Fund Science? The notion that governments should fund science is built on falsehoods. Zachary Robert Caverley 4 Nov 2023 · 17 min read
Destiny of Earth Muthukrishna’s new book presents a fundamentally optimistic narrative, brimming with ideas and concepts. Razib Khan 1 Nov 2023 · 6 min read
Towards a Brave New World Huxley’s dystopian novel was a warning, but we are systematically moving in the direction he indicated. Tomasz Witkowski 5 Oct 2023 · 10 min read
Clearing Out My Father’s Office Reflections on a vibrant scientific career cut short. Geoffrey C. Kabat 29 Sep 2023 · 15 min read
Old Model, New Tricks On the 85th anniversary of his death, a look back at the legacy of Nikolai Kondratiev and its implications for the coming age of GenAI. Elliot Leavy 26 Sep 2023 · 6 min read
Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health A look back on the 2003 BMJ controversy over passive smoking and mortality. Geoffrey C. Kabat 15 Sep 2023 · 20 min read
Unconscious Bias in Medicine: A Canard Evidence that clinical decisions are driven by unconscious bias remains conspicuously lacking. Stewart Justman 5 Sep 2023 · 8 min read