Science - Quillette (Page 2)

Whatever It Is, It Ain’t Aliens

7 Jul 2021 · 5 min read

Looking for COVID-19 ‘Miracle Drugs’? We Already Have Them. They’re Called Vaccines

The evidence that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are safe, and that they work, is about as solid as medical evidence gets.

Claire Berlinski and Yuri Deigin

6 Jul 2021 · 13 min read

Mate Selection for Modernity

Hypergamy is an evolved sexual strategy where individuals mate with and/or marry those most capable of providing long term security. It is the act of marrying up.

Vincent Harinam

28 Jun 2021 · 16 min read

Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial

Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about.

Quillette

24 Jun 2021 · 9 min read

The Sperm Count Culture War

The authors all but ignore the science to focus on what they believe is more important—the ideological framing of the issue in socio-cultural discourse.

Geoffrey C. Kabat

16 Jun 2021 · 13 min read

The Importance of Understanding the Nonspecific Effects of Vaccines

A new strategy is required that balances authority with humility.

David McLelland

9 Jun 2021 · 7 min read

Understanding the Unidentified

With the decline of religious belief over the past century, perhaps this is what lies behind this quest to understand the unidentified.

Michael Shermer

3 Jun 2021 · 22 min read

In Defense of the Universal Values of Science

Until recently, it seemed inconceivable to imagine that any physical or biological scientists could become so misguided as to argue against the empirical basis of their own fields.

Lawrence M. Krauss

2 Jun 2021 · 4 min read

Trauma and the Psychedelic Renaissance

Negative stereotypes about psychedelics are undergoing a reassessment.

James Jeffrey

22 May 2021 · 9 min read

The Social Determinants of Health: Critique and Implications

This overreach of public health also bleeds into the educational sector, where schooling is yet another SDOH requiring intervention.

Zachary Robert Caverley

13 May 2021 · 11 min read

Why Climate Science Is Like the Rest of Science

Lawrence M. Krauss

1 May 2021 · 5 min read

In fact, the single most common technique for insisting that Austen is anti-slavery is for the critic to draw an equivalence between slavery and her depiction of social class, or her portrayal of the status of women.