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From my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence. ~Richard P. Feynman, The Character
The evidence that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are safe, and that they work, is about as solid as medical evidence gets.
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.
Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about.
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.
A new strategy is required that balances authority with humility.
With the decline of religious belief over the past century, perhaps this is what lies behind this quest to understand the unidentified.
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.
Negative stereotypes about psychedelics are undergoing a reassessment.
This overreach of public health also bleeds into the educational sector, where schooling is yet another SDOH requiring intervention.
Recent White House initiatives suggest that addressing climate change has risen to the policy forefront of government at the presidential level for the first time in US history. Last week President Biden convened an online international meeting of heads of state on the issue and committed the US to a
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.
The essence of AI is not white oppression, racism, sexism, and colonialism, it is the automation of mathematics and logic.
Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last.
The path to progress is definitely not paved by destroying the epistemological framework bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment.