Science - Quillette (Page 4)

The Fragility of Modern Education in the Time of COVID-19

The COVID-related disruptions of schooling have scattered hundreds of millions of children and adolescents across an archipelago of small islands that are not well-suited to fostering modern educational goals.

David C. Geary

22 Nov 2020 · 15 min read

On the Cusp of a Vaccine—and a Historic Scientific Triumph

What is unique about our time is not “the awful spectacle of men dying like sheep,” as Thucydides put it, but the success of scientists in bringing many such spectacles to an end.

Quillette

18 Nov 2020 · 11 min read

It's Still Early Days. But Pfizer's Stunning Vaccine Results Could Be a Real Game-Changer

It is a sign that the end of the global pandemic may—may—soon be in sight.

Jeffrey S. Flier

11 Nov 2020 · 8 min read

Sex Differences in Occupational Attainment are Here to Stay

The sex difference here is found in hunter-gatherer, pastoral, and agricultural societies, as well as in early empires, developing nations, and the modern world.

David C. Geary

2 Nov 2020 · 16 min read

Jack Turban’s Dangerous Campaign to Smear Ethical Psychotherapy as Anti-Trans ‘Conversion Therapy’

A number of additional data irregularities in the USTS raise further questions about the quality of the data.

Roberto D’Angelo, Ema Syrulnik, Sasha Ayad, Lisa Marchiano, Dianna Theadora Kenny, and Patrick Clarke / Lisa Marchiano / Sasha Ayad

1 Nov 2020 · 19 min read

The Evolutionary History of Man's Best Friend Revealed

Dogs are the only domestic species who have been with us since the Pleistocene, which ended 11,500 years ago.

Razib Khan

29 Oct 2020 · 7 min read

Philosophy Is Being Hijacked by Woke Twitter Mobs

Van Leeuwen and Herschbach wrote a statement on Facebook reiterating that the review process had been carried out properly, and declaring, “Efforts to silence unwelcome opinion… are doing a disservice to the community.”

Nathan Cofnas

21 Oct 2020 · 6 min read

The Real Causes of Human Sex Differences

The prevailing view in the social and behavioral sciences is that human sex differences are typically small in magnitude, largely social in origin, and driven by gender roles (below).

David C. Geary

20 Oct 2020 · 12 min read

At Dalhousie University, Ideology Comes First, Science Comes Second

We are entering a strange and unsettling period in the life of universities, and in the sciences, in particular.

Jonathan Kay

4 Oct 2020 · 6 min read

The Bias that Divides Us

What our society is really suffering from is myside bias: People evaluate evidence, generate evidence, and test hypotheses in a manner biased toward their own prior beliefs, opinions, and attitudes.

Keith E. Stanovich

26 Sep 2020 · 20 min read

Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School

The activists seeking to eliminate TJ’s meritocratic admissions systems attribute this latter result to systemic racism.

Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller

23 Sep 2020 · 10 min read

Microbes on Venus May Herald Human Extinction (Though Not in the Way You Think)

Many of these cultures surely had their share of Elon Musks—beings who wished to colonize other worlds.

James D. Miller

23 Sep 2020 · 8 min read

International Scholars Must Resist the American Campaign to Inject Racial Tribalism Into Science

We retain the belief that, in supposedly pluralistic societies, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. We urge other scientists not to follow the American example, and to resist the campaign to racialize science.

Andreas Bikfalvi and Marcel Kuntz

21 Aug 2020 · 8 min read

The Problems with Discrimination Research in Medicine

The narrative that has emerged from the conclusions of these limited studies could inadvertently cause some populations to avoid medical follow-up and form an inaccurate view of healthcare practices.

Zachary Robert Caverley

13 Aug 2020 · 12 min read

What Computer-Generated Language Tells Us About Our Own Ideological Thinking

Thus, the ancient question of what separates humans from animals is the inverse of the more recent question of what separates humans from computers.

Cameron Harwick

3 Aug 2020 · 10 min read