Talk Therapy’s Moral Morass
Should mental-health care strive to be ethically neutral?
Robert T. Fancher
· 17 min read
Science / Tech
A collection of 311 posts
The European Union Is Finally Coming Around to Gene-Edited Seeds
For a quarter century, activists such as Vandana Shiva have opposed GM crops that can help feed the world. Now, more than ever, it’s time to reject their Luddite demands
Zion Lights
· 15 min read
Beware Psychotherapy That Works
Much has been written about the problems caused by therapy when it fails. Less discussed are the problems it can cause when it succeeds.
Steve Salerno
· 11 min read
Faith Goes to Switzerland
When should we allow a person to hasten her own death?
Brent M. Kious, Margaret Pabst Battin
· 25 min read
AIs Will Be Our Mind Children
We must free our artificial descendants to adapt to their new worlds and choose what they will become.
Robin Hanson
· 7 min read
How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’?
A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film.
Robert Zubrin
· 10 min read
Humanity Should Split More Atoms
The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear.
Lea Booth
· 8 min read
Animal Liberation Later
Most consumers of meat know that animals matter, but they choose to act as if this isn’t the case.
Matt Johnson
· 13 min read
What Lies Beneath
In ‘The Hidden Spring,’ psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises.
Sean Welsh
· 14 min read
If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract
How dissent is policed in social science.
Jukka Savolainen
· 10 min read
Aliens...Again!
This time, they always say, it could be different.
Michael Shermer
· 10 min read
A Declaration of Decadence
Mary Jane Rubenstein’s real target in “Astrotopia” is not the corporate space race, but the very ideas of humanism and progress.
Robert Zubrin
· 7 min read
AI: Let’s Worry About the Right Things
There are valid concerns and there are unfounded fears. Let us separate the two.
Brendan Craig
· 13 min read
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being
The American Physical Society views the existence of White Privilege in physics as being both scientific and not scientific.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 5 min read
ChatGPT, Lobster Gizzards, and Intelligence
Chat knows more, gizzards are more complex, and you’re more intelligent.
Frederick R. Prete
· 10 min read