Science is Not Truth
We need to lose our naivete. Many scientific findings are neither crisp nor clear.
View ArticlePerverse Scientific Incentives
There are structural reasons for the low quality of much scientific research.
View ArticleSelf-Correcting Science: A Slow & Haphazard Process
The celebrated ability of science to self-correct is accompanied by some major caveats.
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Why is Discrimination Against Asians OK?
Full-fledged racism is being practiced by the very institutions that claim to abhor it.
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Skin in the Game
Emotionally attached to ideas, some of us have little interest in how they perform in the real world.
View ArticleTotalitarian Thinker David Suzuki
On June 7th, the University of Alberta will lionize someone who rejects freedom of thought.
View ArticleThe Most Trusted Canadian Is A Dick
In person, David Suzuki is reportedly foul-mouthed, rude, and generally unpleasant.
View ArticleEat Your Veggies (With Lots of Butter)
In the low-carb universe, vegetables are served with lots of butter, mayonnaise, and hollandaise.
View ArticleIs Tomato Soup Good for You?
'Healthy' is now being defined in radically different ways, by different interest groups.
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Coleman Hughes on the ‘Racism Treadmill’
We regularly urge young people to think outside the box. Hughes is doing just that.
View ArticleHow Much Plastic is Polluting the Ocean?
Peer-reviewed studies, published six months apart, produce wildly different estimates.
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Scott Adams on How Failure Can Breed Success
The Dilbert cartoonist remembers what it was like to be a young person from a small town, with few role models and fewer connections.
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If You See Something, Say Something
Why Scott Adams thinks we have a moral obligation to praise others.
View ArticleThe Science of Self-Control
Another idea, supposedly confirmed by science, turns out to have little scientific foundation.
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How They Sold ‘The Population Bomb’
Threats of famine, dead children, bombs, nuclear war, and oblivion.
View ArticleAnything Goes When You’re Saving the World
Paul Ehrlich advocated the use of US helicopters so that Indian peasants could be kidnapped & forcibly sterilized.
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Why Paul Ehrlich Matters
If it had been within his power to take the steps he insisted were necessary, the human rights abuses would have been horrendous.
View ArticleEhrlich’s Guide to Being an Intrusive A**hole
People with 8 kids should be told they "surely would not behave that way today." Those considering a third should be accused of self-indulgence.
View ArticleFrom Carbon Footprint to Plastic Footprint
Polluted waterways are one more reason not to litter. Rather than making this point, greens are demonizing plastic.
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