About the “M” Word: “Merit”
Pamela Paul writes in the NYT: Is a gay Republican Latino more capable of conducting a physics experiment than a white progressive heterosexual woman? Would they come to different conclusions based on...
View ArticleMeaningful Discussions of Contentious Topics
The first question we must ask regarding EVERY controversy is whether one side is disproportionately well-funded, institutionally-fortified and ill-motivated (by $, power or ideology) and thus able to...
View ArticleFollowing the Science
Was it illegal to say “We don’t know” when public health officials didn’t know? Instead, they showed hubris when they should have admitted ignorance, hurting millions of people, killing some of them...
View ArticleIdeology is Hollowing-Out Academic Biology
At Skeptical Inquirer, Jerry A. Coyne and Luana S. Maroja have written about the damage ideology is doing to the field of biology. Like many well-written articles today by people with their eyes open,...
View ArticleThe Fall of Scientific American
From Spiked: When you come across the longstanding magazine, Scientific American, you could be forgiven for assuming that scientific truth would play a pivotal role in its output. But not any more, it...
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