Bad Data Analysis and Psychology's Replication Crisis
This isn’t the first time this has happened in video game research.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 7 min read
Science
A collection of 158 posts
The Academic Quarrel over Determinism
Still, the universe is full of things that seem irrefutably evident and yet can’t be well explained or understood.
William Tomos Edwards
· 8 min read
The Real Gender Gap in Heart Disease
Men have been dying at higher rates than women over time, and the gap appears to be constant.
Anish Koka
· 9 min read
How ‘Limbic Capitalism’ Preys on Our Addicted Brains
The more rapid and intense the brain reward they imparted, the likelier they were to foster pathological learning and craving, particularly among socially and genetically vulnerable consumers.
David Courtwright
· 11 min read
Origins and Exploration—An Interview with Dr. Lewis Dartnell
One of the big questions in evolutionary biology is: what drove our evolution from tree-swinging apes to bipedal, highly intelligent homonins that went on to build civilization and inherit the world?
Logan Chipkin
· 14 min read
Noah Carl: An Update on the Young Scholar Fired by a Cambridge College for Thoughtcrime
Unfortunately, St. Edmund’s College did the bidding of the protestors, launched two separate investigations and last month terminated Noah Carl’s employment.
Quillette
· 6 min read
Memes, Genes, and Sex Differences—An Interview with Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams
The meme’s-eye view says that memes are selected to the extent that they have effects on the people who encounter them that keep the memes alive in the culture: tunes that get stuck in our heads, for instance, or ideas that motivate us to talk about them, spread them, or impose them on other people.
Logan Chipkin
· 14 min read
Against Scientism—A Rejoinder to Bo and Ben Winegard
Science is not the only form of knowledge. There are valid non-scientific ways of approaching reality.
Aaron Neil
· 8 min read
Alessandro Strumia: Another Politically-Correct Witch-Hunt, or a More Complicated Story?
Hossenfelder—who believes women in science are still held back by sexist cultural biases but also opposes preferential treatment as a shortcut to equality—is a welcome exception.
Cathy Young
· 12 min read
How I Lost My Partner to a Parasite
"This monster isn’t David. It’s a parasite of some kind. You see, another consciousness inside him. This thing burrowed into David’s brain … and has been there, feeding off him ever since." - Loudermilk, FX Legion.
Maryam Henein
· 13 min read
In Defense of Scientism
Once we have identified a desirable end—human flourishing—we can and should use science to discover and promote the policies that encourage it.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 14 min read
Science Denial Won’t End Sexism
We can acknowledge that male and female brains have differences in structure and function, on average, without subscribing to the belief that one sex is better than the other.
Debra Soh
· 6 min read
Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on 'Enlightenment Now,' One Year Later
As Thomas Paine wrote, “To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
Steven Pinker
· 52 min read
Should We Use Genetic Technology to Boost Human Intelligence?
Instead of using the label “eugenics” to discredit advocates of genetic enhancement, it would be more productive to ask what precisely we deem unacceptable and why.
Julien Delhez
· 12 min read
Strange Bedfellows: The Peculiar Alliance Between Centrist Liberals and Radical Feminists
Trans radicalism is not a war against feminism.
Charlotte Shelton
· 11 min read