We’re fighting the Covid censors
When there is scientific disagreement or uncertainty, the government must never pretend there is consensus and certainty
Science
Wednesday
Thursday
Stanford’s Marc Tessier-Lavigne and the messiness of modern science
Following a rigorous investigation, the Stanford president has resigned
Wednesday
Meet the men who want to bring back the woolly mammoth
Dr. George Church and Ben Lamm say they’re not creating a real-life Jurassic Park
Elon Musk’s brain game
The tech magnate is on a mission to save the world from the attack of the Killer Robots
Sunday
The Age of Unreason
It it is becoming plain that civilization cannot go on forever. Does this imply that it should never have existed at all?
Monday
The Doomsday Clock has been corrupted by ideology
Climate change is not the same as nuclear annihilation
Saturday
Is losing God making America miserable?
Consumerism, technology, sex, drugs — these things can’t give us happiness
Friday
NPR memo: rat out your unmasked colleagues so we can fire them
Is this America’s healthiest workplace?
Monday
The dangerous rise of academic diversity quotas
‘White men need not apply’ is corrupting science
Sunday
Biden’s science advisor falls to the woke
The Mean Girls of academia accused him of ‘erasure,’ but do their claims hold up?
Thursday
Get rid of masks on planes
There isn’t a single study with a control group that shows they work. Follow the science!
Thursday
Too many scientists spoil the job market
The misnamed American Association for the Advancement of Science targets the tenured professoriate under the guise of diversity
Sunday
The merry old land of Dr. Oz
America’s politics and celebrity culture blur together yet again as a TV doctor runs for Senate
Monday
How we can keep innovating
The prophets of stagnation are wrong
Friday
The Wuhan cover-up is more typical than you think
Much of what’s considered ‘science’ in research periodicals is nothing of the sort
Wednesday
When do vaccine incentives become coercive?
The technocrats are nudging us into a dystopia
Wednesday
NASA’s multi-billion dollar Mars reality TV show green-lit for another season
A new lovable robot joins the cast in 2020
Wednesday
No, Donald Trump’s climate policies aren’t going to ‘boil the planet’
With enemies as unhinged as this, who needs friends?
Thursday
It’s not science I don’t trust – it’s the scientists
Everyone knows the real reason people like Donald Trump are sceptical of climate change is that conservatives are fundamentally anti-science. Some doubt science because it conflicts with their religious beliefs; others because its implications might mean radically shifting the global economy in an anti-growth or heavily statist direction, which goes against their free-market ideology; others because, being conservative, they are prisoners of their dogmatism, need closure and fear uncertainty. I hear this all the time from lefties on social media. And there seems to be some evidence to support it. At least there is if you believe studies like The Republican War on Science (Mooney, 2005), Politicization of Science in
Thursday
The selective breeding of pets: how far should we go?
It was in his play Back to Methuselah that George Bernard Shaw honoured a lesser known aspect of Charles Darwin’s originality as a thinker, when he described him as ‘an intelligent and industrious pigeon fancier’. Britain’s greatest natural scientist was indeed a keeper of fowl, with pigeons among his favourites. The habit arose from Darwin’s instinctual recognition that in the animal-rearing experiments conducted over millennia by our ancestors, we had inadvertently stored away crucial evidence about the way in which all of life can change in response to environmental stimuli. It was part of his world-changing insights that he proposed how all the 200- plus pigeon breeds recognised in Victorian
