More Than Just a Social Construct The fiction that race has no biological basis is more likely to exacerbate health disparities than narrow them. Robert J. Morris 8 Jan 2023 · 8 min read
Saving Twitter—A Roundtable Elon Musk’s controversial takeover of Twitter has led many commentators to wonder if the platform can be improved by its new owner. In this roundtable, three writers offer their thoughts and suggestions. Bo Winegard, Jim Rutt, and Cody Moser 14 Dec 2022 · 17 min read
The Philadelphia Experiments How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America. Allen M. Hornblum 10 Dec 2022 · 26 min read
Brute Physical Facts and Social Construction The progressive and the traditionalist are equally detached from the underlying reality as currently described by science. Vinod Goel 6 Dec 2022 · 11 min read
Religious Permanence The human brain evolved to be religious, but religion also evolved to appeal to the human brain. Bo Winegard 18 Nov 2022 · 10 min read
The Energy Future Belongs to Nuclear It remains the only proven technology capable of serving the energy needs of de-carbonized modern society. Regis Nicoll 4 Nov 2022 · 6 min read
Science by Quota Australia’s unnecessary new NHMRC policy will lead to a decline in scientific quality. Anthony Jorm 3 Nov 2022 · 8 min read
‘The Dawn of Everything’ and the Politics of Human Prehistory David Graeber and David Wengrow’s tendentious assault on the Enlightenment and its modern defenders is a bust. Dennis J. Junk 22 Oct 2022 · 21 min read
Anti-Male Bias at the NHMRC Imposing gender quotas for research funding is counterproductive and sets a dangerous new precedent. Lawrence M. Krauss 20 Oct 2022 · 4 min read
Disease and Deception The rise of Munchausen by Internet syndrome is inseparable from the spread of online subcultures that valorize disability. Lucy Kross Wallace 20 Oct 2022 · 12 min read
Scientology’s War on Psychiatry What caused L. Ron Hubbard to turn on a discipline he had once accepted? Jonathan Salem-Wiseman / Stephen Wiseman 18 Oct 2022 · 16 min read
Infidelity Reconsidered As a society, we should not presume to judge the relationships of others based on our own moral code. Limor Gottlieb 6 Oct 2022 · 7 min read
Misunderstanding Equality If confusion between moral and empirical claims persists, we will find ourselves asked to choose between the truth and our ethical preferences. Bo Winegard 26 Sep 2022 · 10 min read
Math for Future Scientists: Require Statistics, Not Calculus The case for ending calculus requirements for science majors. Robert C. Thornett 15 Sep 2022 · 7 min read
Reject the Rules of the Social Media Game The only winning move is not to play. Niamh Jiménez 10 Sep 2022 · 19 min read