Against Research Ethics Committees
The guidelines ethics committees follow present themselves as universal rules derived from reason.
Paul Oslington
· 13 min read
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I Asked Thousands of Biologists When Life Begins. The Answer Wasn't Popular
The U.S. abortion debate has raged for generations, and remains divisive to this day.
Steve Jacobs
· 8 min read
Corporate Subservience to China Exposes the Hypocrisy of Woke Capitalism
China’s ability to make America’s biggest companies dance to its tune exposes woke capitalism as the sanctimonious scam that it is.
Zaid Jilani
· 8 min read
Good Men Aren't Getting Harder to Find
Every year in the US, nearly 2 million students enroll in one of the nearly 4,300 degree-granting colleges and universities.
Daniel Friedman
· 6 min read
The Dangerous Dream of Dismantling Human Hierarchies
Most setups that might appear to be non-hierarchical are actually deeply hierarchical.
Christoph Kletzer
· 19 min read
A Shameful Betrayal
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read
Olga Tokarczuk: Poland's "Patriots" Struggle To Accept The Nobel Prize
Tokarczuk is a passionate proponent of tolerance, feminism and European unity.
Bartosz Wieliński
· 5 min read
Science and Data: Notes on a Misconception
The theory that science is based on evidence derives from a philosophy known as empiricism.
Lucas Smalldon
· 7 min read
The Meritocracy Trap—A Review
Workers are instead selected by their educational credentials, even when a degree is unnecessary
John Staddon
· 13 min read
Trudeau’s Government Tried to Block My Election Reporting. (Thankfully, It Failed)
In recent days, the Liberals escalated their campaign against Lawton, by seeking not only to block him from covering the Liberal campaign, but also seeking to deny him accreditation to cover the National Leader’s Debates.
Candice Malcolm
· 8 min read
How Feminism Has Constrained Our Understanding of Gender
Feminist research into sex differences has typically concluded that the number of sex differences is small, and therefore unimportant, thus making the logical error that a small number of differences means those differences are inconsequential.
John Barry
· 7 min read
University Harassment Policy and Its Problems
In its effort to protect its students from potentially awkward social interactions, the university is arrogating adult decision-making to the institution.
Marilyn Simon
· 10 min read
Understanding the Propaganda Campaign Against So-called ‘TERFs’
It certainly sounds bad (“exclusion” being a modern secular sin), for it suggests that so-called TERFs want trans people excluded from health care, or from jobs or homes, or from society as a whole—or even from life itself.
Helen Joyce
· 9 min read
The Problem with Sensitivity Readers
Sensitivity readers are typically sought by authors writing about some marginalized group—a culture to which they don’t personally belong, or a community about which they don’t feel they have complete expertise, and about which they want to be warned of any overlooked biases or stereotypes.
Ryan Holiday
· 10 min read
The Man at the Arcade
Sometimes, it seemed like the world was against me. But when I did finally get the chance to read all those carefully kept files, my overwhelming impression was that they—the social workers, guardian ad litems, judges, teachers and volunteers—were trying their best.
Stephen Elliott
· 7 min read