Trauma and the Psychedelic Renaissance
Negative stereotypes about psychedelics are undergoing a reassessment.
James Jeffrey
· 10 min read
Health
A collection of 165 posts
The Social Determinants of Health: Critique and Implications
This overreach of public health also bleeds into the educational sector, where schooling is yet another SDOH requiring intervention.
Zachary Robert Caverley
· 12 min read
The Geography of COVID-19
The ongoing pandemic is reshaping the geography of our planet, helping some areas and hurting others. In the West, the clear winners have been the sprawling suburbs and exurbs, while dense cores have been dealt a powerful blow. The pandemic also has accelerated class differences and inequality, with poor and
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part IV: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering
The recent spike in trans self-identification has made things even more difficult for these parents, because gender-related body dysmorphia often appears alongside other kinds of physically focused anxieties.
Angus Fox
· 17 min read
The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology?
Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
The Fear and Fantasy of COVID-19 Vaccination
The politicization and generation of narratives surrounding the coronavirus (and ensuing governmental responses) funneled information flow into partitions based on political affiliation.
Iosif M. Gershteyn
· 8 min read
Diversity, Inclusion, and Academic Freedom: The Case of Gender Biology
But it is sad to see established facts now suppressed along with undesirable beliefs and opinions. And to see our institutions of higher learning being led to this kind of neo-obscurantism in the name of enlightened social attitudes.
Constantin Polychronakos
· 9 min read
Taboo: Why Is Africa the Global COVID ‘Cold Spot’ and Why Are We Afraid to Talk About It?
Africa has not been affected on anything like the scale of most countries in Asia, Europe, and North and South America.
Jon Entine
· 21 min read
The End of Pestilence
The COVID-19 vaccine development experience shows it is possible to produce safe and effective vaccines much faster than previously thought.
Matthew Lesh
· 13 min read
Lockdown Scepticism Was Never a ‘Fringe’ Viewpoint
The Declaration states that achieving herd immunity for COVID-19 can be assisted by vaccines, “but is not dependent” on their use.
Noah Carl
· 11 min read
Do Lockdowns Work? Only If You Lock the Borders Down, Too
The public debate around COVID-19 has too often centred on the question of whether a certain set of measures, usually classified as lockdowns, are or are not effective.
Noah Carl
· 8 min read
Scott Alexander, Philosopher King of the Weird People
Rationalists, in short, are a group of people who picked up the liberal, academic, philosophical traditions of Western civilization when institutions like the New York Times decided to abandon them.
Kenneth R. Pike
· 8 min read
Man vs. Wall: Solitary Sport and Surviving the Pandemic
In our hyper-connected times, personal resilience is a muscle worth exercising.
Matt Fuchs
· 6 min read
Suicide Prevention and the Social Science Cargo Cult
Social science can be a valuable means of understanding the world and improving human well-being when it is rigorously and practically applied.
Tomasz Witkowski
· 9 min read
First, Do No Harm: A New Model for Treating Trans-Identified Children
Individuals with a fragile ego structure also tend to be prone toward black-and-white thinking, which leads them to concrete rather than symbolic solutions.
Susan Evans and Marcus Evans
· 16 min read