How Will Decolonizing the Curriculum Help the Poor and Dispossessed? The path to progress is definitely not paved by destroying the epistemological framework bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment. Samantha Jones 10 Apr 2021 · 11 min read
Taboo: Why Is Africa the Global COVID ‘Cold Spot’ and Why Are We Afraid to Talk About It? Africa has not been affected on anything like the scale of most countries in Asia, Europe, and North and South America. Jon Entine / Patrick Whittle 30 Mar 2021 · 20 min read
The Campaign to Thwart Paleogenetic Research Into North America's Indigenous Peoples In the north, the Maritime Archaic gave way to Pre-Dorset Palaeoeskimos (as they are known in the literature) that had recently arrived from Siberia. Bruce Bourque 29 Mar 2021 · 20 min read
Sex, Drugs, and Antiquity The underlying assumption of The Immortality Key is that the human need to reconcile itself with death is a core element of religion. Clifton Ross 19 Mar 2021 · 10 min read
The Campaign of Lies Against Journalist Jesse Singal—And Why It Matters One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views. Jonathan Kay 18 Mar 2021 · 13 min read
Standing on the Shoulders of Ogres The aim of antenatal screening is to discourage the birth of people with severe disabilities. Sean Welsh 16 Mar 2021 · 10 min read
Lockdown Scepticism Was Never a ‘Fringe’ Viewpoint The Declaration states that achieving herd immunity for COVID-19 can be assisted by vaccines, “but is not dependent” on their use. Noah Carl 2 Mar 2021 · 10 min read
Accommodating Trans Athletes Without Rejecting the Reality of Human Biology As recent studies have shown, these advantages generally don’t go away simply because an athlete has changed their pronouns and hormone chemistry. At the highest levels, the difference between male and female world records typically hovers around 10 percent. Quillette 17 Feb 2021 · 11 min read
Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks The smileys are not bad people. They are not necessarily unintelligent people. They are unhappy people wearing a mask of happiness, confused and beaten and searching for an easy answer. Christopher J. Snowdon 16 Jan 2021 · 19 min read
National Borders are Not Going Away The only examples of ready mergers in humans bring to mind the captive chimps or fugitive monkeys. Mark W. Moffett 30 Dec 2020 · 6 min read
The End of the World as We Know It? The scholars at Our World in Data add that this also holds for other natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcano activity, wildfire, and landslides. Glenn T. Stanton 11 Dec 2020 · 14 min read
The Apocalyptic Threat from Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Science Fiction The time to begin planning our response, and designing systems to give humanity a fighting chance, is now. James D. Miller 3 Dec 2020 · 10 min read
Desperation and the Quest for Control: The Dangers of Alternative Medicine Contrary to popular opinion, alternative medicine is not always harmless, and when patients use it instead of conventional medical treatment, it can even be deadly. S. Stiles 27 Nov 2020 · 16 min read
Retracting a Controversial Paper Won’t Help Female Scientists No scientific study is perfect and AlShebli et al.’s is certainly no exception. Tania Reynolds 23 Nov 2020 · 18 min read
Why Is Scientific Illiteracy So Acceptable? The Enlightenment was well-named because it led to a greater understanding of ourselves, our society, and our environment, and was accompanied by the rise of the scientific method. Lawrence M. Krauss 23 Nov 2020 · 7 min read
