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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.
It is a sign that the end of the global pandemic may—may—soon be in sight.
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.
A number of additional data irregularities in the USTS raise further questions about the quality of the data.
Dogs are the only domestic species who have been with us since the Pleistocene, which ended 11,500 years ago.
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.”
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).
We are entering a strange and unsettling period in the life of universities, and in the sciences, in particular.
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.
The activists seeking to eliminate TJ’s meritocratic admissions systems attribute this latter result to systemic racism.
Many of these cultures surely had their share of Elon Musks—beings who wished to colonize other worlds.
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.
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.
Thus, the ancient question of what separates humans from animals is the inverse of the more recent question of what separates humans from computers.
But what I’m describing here isn’t evidence-driven debate: It’s angry, ideologically driven luddite mysticism masquerading as hard-headed conservative skepticism.