Robert Sapolsky is Wrong
A new book about free will fails to offer an original argument or make a convincing case.
Stuart Doyle
· 13 min read
Science / Tech
A collection of 373 posts
Who Should Fund Science?
The notion that governments should fund science is built on falsehoods.
Zachary Robert Caverley
· 17 min read
Destiny of Earth
Muthukrishna’s new book presents a fundamentally optimistic narrative, brimming with ideas and concepts.
Razib Khan
· 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
· 10 min read
Clearing Out My Father’s Office
Reflections on a vibrant scientific career cut short.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 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
· 6 min read
Charles Darwin: The Best Scientist-Writer of All Time
The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 9 min read
Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health
A look back on the 2003 BMJ controversy over passive smoking and mortality.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 20 min read
Economics is Not a Game of Monopoly
The standard textbook model of monopoly economics only applies to the real world in a narrow range of circumstances.
Saul Zimet
· 7 min read
Unconscious Bias in Medicine: A Canard
Evidence that clinical decisions are driven by unconscious bias remains conspicuously lacking.
Stewart Justman
· 8 min read
Should We Stay or Should We Go?
Humanity and the Final Frontier.
Joseph Grosso
· 20 min read
Medications Can Help Keep Alcoholics Sober. Why Are They Being Ignored?
Affordable, safe, generic anticonvulsants restore homeostasis to the brains of chronic drinkers, but they are not being promoted.
Frank Celia
· 6 min read
As a Hereditarian, I Strongly Support Economic Redistribution
A recognition that genetic influences on social outcomes are important will potentially influence the kind of help that society offers poorer individuals. But it does not in any way compel an absence of help, or a casual indifference.
Gregory Clark
· 7 min read
Talk Therapy’s Moral Morass
Should mental-health care strive to be ethically neutral?
Robert T. Fancher
· 17 min read
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