A collection of 371 posts
How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America.
The progressive and the traditionalist are equally detached from the underlying reality as currently described by science.
The human brain evolved to be religious, but religion also evolved to appeal to the human brain.
It remains the only proven technology capable of serving the energy needs of de-carbonized modern society.
Australia’s unnecessary new NHMRC policy will lead to a decline in scientific quality.
David Graeber and David Wengrow’s tendentious assault on the Enlightenment and its modern defenders is a bust.
Imposing gender quotas for research funding is counterproductive and sets a dangerous new precedent.
The rise of Munchausen by Internet syndrome is inseparable from the spread of online subcultures that valorize disability.
What caused L. Ron Hubbard to turn on a discipline he had once accepted?
As a society, we should not presume to judge the relationships of others based on our own moral code.
If confusion between moral and empirical claims persists, we will find ourselves asked to choose between the truth and our ethical preferences.
The case for ending calculus requirements for science majors.
The only winning move is not to play.
Coping is not enough. We must strive to live.
Boys and girls are not infinitely malleable, socially constructed products of the patriarchy.