Against the Demonization of Drugs
Drugs are able to save lives and ruin them; enhance your mind and numb it; heal your body and destroy it.
Sana Al-Badri and Marco Vega
· 12 min read
Science
A collection of 158 posts
What is Mindfulness? Nobody Really Knows, and That's a Problem
Researchers should systematically assess potential side effects when studying mindfulness treatments.
Nicholas T Van Dam and Nick Haslam
· 5 min read
Is There a Biological Case for Criminal Justice Reform?
“We’ve successfully banished the notion of punishment in that realm,” Sapolsky writes. “It may take centuries, but we can do the same in all our current arenas of punishment.”
Hal Conick
· 6 min read
Is It Ever Better Not to Know?
It seems that gaining more knowledge, even on topics where that knowledge could be damaging in the short term, is the preferable approach.
Brian Boutwell, Bo Winegard, Jonathan Anomaly
· 7 min read
Not Everything Is An Interaction
Despite strong genetic influences on IQ (and there are strong genetic influences on IQ), we can’t calculate the proportion of credit for Einstein’s intellect that is owed solely to his genes.
Brian Boutwell
· 4 min read
Why Social Scientists Should Not Participate in the March for Science
Why? For one, there is very little political and ideological diversity in the social sciences.
Clay Routledge
· 6 min read
Galapagos Giant Tortoises Make a Comeback, Thanks to Innovative Conservation Strategies
With critical support from nonprofits like the Galapagos Conservancy and advice from an international team of conservation scientists.
James P Gibbs
· 6 min read
Is Crime Genetic? Scientists Don’t Know Because They’re Afraid to Ask
What if much of what we know about the causes of crime is either deeply flawed or flat out wrong?
Brian Boutwell, Conor Barnes
· 7 min read
Interview with Debra W. Soh, Sex Neuroscientist
Claire Lehmann
· 6 min read
Saints & Sinners: A Dialogue on the Hardest Topic in Science
We harbor no illusions that a single article will alter anyone’s mindset on the issue of race differences in a deeply appreciable manner.
Michael Rocque and Brian Boutwell
· 14 min read
Not My Rights Movement
If this rate of letter propagation continues, we’ll soon have an acronym that spans several lines and will be worth well over two thousand points in Scrabble.
Fred Litwin
· 15 min read
Science as Art
All of this discussion leaves unanswered the question of how we decide if something represents a breakthrough — after all, there isn’t an international court of arbitration for creativity.
Adam Perkins
· 9 min read
Elite Opinion vs the Wisdom of Crowds: The Intelligentsia’s Tendency to Get Things Wrong
The anti-democratic attitude of the liberal elite is absurd from a theoretical viewpoint because a democratic judgment represents the will of the majority...
Adam Perkins
· 9 min read
Risky Business: Public Health and the Culture of Crisis
The goal of public health is ostensibly primary prevention: this means a focus on anticipating, (rather than treating), disease, disorder, and injury.
Jaime Anne Earnest
· 8 min read
When Bad Ideas Refuse to Die: the Denial of Human Individuality
The situationist idea that personality is an illusion is an arresting one, but it is false.
Luke Smillie and Nick Haslam
· 4 min read