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
Why Have So Many American Conservatives Embraced COVID-19 Pseudoscience? But what I’m describing here isn’t evidence-driven debate: It’s angry, ideologically driven luddite mysticism masquerading as hard-headed conservative skepticism. Nidra Poller 23 Jul 2020 · 7 min read
On Steve Hsu and the Campaign to Thwart Free Inquiry It is not unreasonable to consider avoiding research that risks creating unmanageable divisions. Peter Toshev 1 Jul 2020 · 6 min read
From South American Anthropology to Gender-Crit Cancel Culture: My Strange Feminist Journey Anthropology taught me how to spot this instinct. Gender-critical feminists taught me how to stand up to it. Kathleen Lowrey 12 Jun 2020 · 13 min read
Capitalism or the Climate? Technological knowledge, fueled by capital, has allowed us to do many things categorically unlike the achievements of other species as far as we know. Saul Zimet 17 May 2020 · 14 min read
Human Challenge Trials—A Coronavirus Taboo If we can overcome the taboos surrounding HCTs, they can become a game changer in combating the coronavirus and limiting its ruinous effects on countless lives. William Wiebe 1 May 2020 · 10 min read
Declining Med School Standards in a Time of Pandemic The language of the social justice Left began appearing in diversity statements at even the most elite schools. Steve Salerno 11 Apr 2020 · 6 min read
The Complicated Science of a Medically Assisted Death Physicians started to prepare families for the possibility of a delayed death. Anita Hannig 18 Mar 2020 · 12 min read
I May Have Gender Dysphoria. But I Still Prefer to Base My Life on Biology, Not Fantasy For the rest of society to acquiesce to this lie is not only a betrayal of science, but of democracy. Debbie Hayton 2 Feb 2020 · 9 min read
An Evolutionary Explanation for Unscientific Beliefs To understand morality from an evolutionary point of view, one needs to realize that humans have always existed in groups. Brandon Bretl 13 Jan 2020 · 6 min read
How CRISPR-Enabled Gene Editing Could Change Our World: A Huntington's Disease Case Study Because Huntington’s disease is caused by a single gene mutation, it is a prime early target for clinical trials involving somatic cell genome editing. Françoise Baylis 18 Dec 2019 · 9 min read
GM Crops Like Golden Rice Will Save the Lives of Hundreds of Thousands of Children The International Rice Research Institute developed numerous different Golden Rice strains back-crossed into commonly grown varieties, behind tough security barriers because of constant threats from activists encouraged by Greenpeace. Matt Ridley 1 Dec 2019 · 11 min read