Experiences with Suicide
Coping with a uniquely painful kind of bereavement.
Art Kusserow
· 9 min read
Science / Tech
A collection of 311 posts
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
· 9 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
· 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
· 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
· 12 min read
Religious Permanence
The human brain evolved to be religious, but religion also evolved to appeal to the human brain.
Bo Winegard
· 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
· 6 min read
Science by Quota
Australia’s unnecessary new NHMRC policy will lead to a decline in scientific quality.
Anthony Jorm
· 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 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
· 5 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 11 min read
Math for Future Scientists: Require Statistics, Not Calculus
The case for ending calculus requirements for science majors.
Robert C. Thornett
· 8 min read