The European Union Is Finally Coming Around to Gene-Edited Seeds For a quarter century, activists such as Vandana Shiva have opposed GM crops that can help feed the world. Now, more than ever, it’s time to reject their Luddite demands Zion Lights 14 Aug 2023 · 14 min read
Beware Psychotherapy That Works Much has been written about the problems caused by therapy when it fails. Less discussed are the problems it can cause when it succeeds. Steve Salerno 8 Aug 2023 · 11 min read
Faith Goes to Switzerland When should we allow a person to hasten her own death? Brent M. Kious / Margaret Pabst Battin 7 Aug 2023 · 24 min read
AIs Will Be Our Mind Children We must free our artificial descendants to adapt to their new worlds and choose what they will become. Robin Hanson 6 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’? A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film. Robert Zubrin 1 Aug 2023 · 9 min read
Humanity Should Split More Atoms The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear. Lea Booth 7 Jul 2023 · 7 min read
Animal Liberation Later Most consumers of meat know that animals matter, but they choose to act as if this isn’t the case. Matt Johnson 30 Jun 2023 · 12 min read
What Lies Beneath In ‘The Hidden Spring,’ psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises. Sean Welsh 23 Jun 2023 · 13 min read
If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract How dissent is policed in social science. Jukka Savolainen 18 Jun 2023 · 10 min read
Aliens...Again! This time, they always say, it could be different. Michael Shermer 8 Jun 2023 · 10 min read
A Declaration of Decadence Mary Jane Rubenstein’s real target in “Astrotopia” is not the corporate space race, but the very ideas of humanism and progress. Robert Zubrin 30 May 2023 · 6 min read
AI: Let’s Worry About the Right Things There are valid concerns and there are unfounded fears. Let us separate the two. Brendan Craig 12 May 2023 · 13 min read
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being The American Physical Society views the existence of White Privilege in physics as being both scientific and not scientific. Lawrence M. Krauss 5 May 2023 · 5 min read
ChatGPT, Lobster Gizzards, and Intelligence Chat knows more, gizzards are more complex, and you’re more intelligent. Frederick R. Prete 1 May 2023 · 10 min read
The Horseless Comanche The new world of AI promises great peril but also great potential. Aidan Harte 20 Apr 2023 · 8 min read