A collection of 336 posts
A 2015 study found that black newborns attended by white doctors die at twice the rate of those in the care of black doctors. The study’s refutation last year has not altered the progressive narrative of systemic racism in medicine.
Denial of “invisible” suffering is bad science and worse ethics.
It is easy to create a negative image of intelligence research because most people know very little about the topic. But distorting intelligence research does a disservice to the field’s hard-working scientists and the general public.
The politicisation of medicine has had terrible unintended consequences.
Greater male variability, biology, and bell curves.
The caring industry’s wellness and positivity products cannot provide self-esteem to those who do not already have it.
The historical, political, and medical context of the Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting cases.
AI catastrophe is easy to imagine, but a lot has to go consistently and infallibly wrong for the doom theory to pan out.
The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year.
The privatisation of space travel is cutting the cost of rocket launches and powering innovation.
We hear much talk of “aligning AI with human values” but relatively little delineation of what these values are.
Directing physicians to treat their patients as racial statistics rather than an individuals is a grievous misdirection of their skills.
Far from enhancing American national security, or the security of the world, nuclear weapons will lead us to the edge of destruction.
Just because we can imagine something terrible happening, that does not mean it will happen.
Overselling Covid vaccines during the pandemic has backfired and played into the hands of the anti-vaccine movement.