Science

To constantly fear dying is to deny the joy of life. To give way to fear of death, or fear of coronavirus, is to live as if already dead.

Toys quickly morph into tools, and the use of the tool quickly outruns any philosophical reflection about the morality of the tool.

When men can't find objects that women say are right in front of their faces, there's a reason for that.

While the mainstream media makes its money off exciting headlines, it is important to remain calm in regards to the coronavirus.

Lots of politically charged medical terms are being thrown around, but it's important to know what these terms actually mean.

When everything looks good and optimism is up, that’s a sure sign everything is about to tank.

Acting now to boost your immune system is prudent. Here is how.

How do we reconcile public health with individual rights? Should the latter be sacrificed to protect the former?

Gender experts have testified in court that humans can't change our gender. Why then do doctors still preform gender reassignment surgeries?

The eminent expert in communicating science botches his explanation.

A new paper suggests the coronavirus could have come from one of two labs near the wet market first blamed by the Chinese government for the disease's outbreak.

A recent claim about transgender suicide received a sensational response in the media. Turns out it was based on weak evidence. 

Humanity is full of hubris, and our continued quest to explore and subjugate nature can only end in one way.

The Communist Party of China is actively suppressing information on the coronavirus when they should be soliciting the world's help in fighting this disease.

Donald Trump's Justice Department is currently investigating Google for possible antitrust violations. Could the tech company's ties to Jared Kushner get this probe shut down?

The Chinese Communist Party's increasing interference in academia in China is making it very difficult for researchers to do their jobs.

The long-praised Cuban health care system has quite a few secrets to hide, including the island's high death rates for small children.

By naming Greta Thunberg, Time is presenting a perfect postmodern archetype. Her story expresses well postmodernity’s rejection of Western Christian civilization.

Embracing suffering, learning from it, and enduring it, benefits not only those we love, but ourselves as well.

Based on current technology, the ability for parents to genetically engineer their babies' traits is still a far off prospect.

Is the battle over gluten avoidance just one more political argument you'll have to tread lightly around this Thanksgiving?

Socialized medicine can be deadly. 

Stupidity continues to swirl in society with increasing vigor. The important thing is whether each of us will allow ourselves to be dragged along with it. 

The Malthusian doomsday prediction has been spectacularly wrong, and yet still popular, for more than 200 years. How many people have to die to satisfy today's alarmists?

If you've seen Al Gore's movie, you should temper its claims by learning about Climategate. 

Should Piers Morgan be fired for his view on gender?

There are many pieces of dystopian literature out there. Perhaps C.S. Lewis' lesser known work holds the truth of our present world.

Psychiatrist: Sex-corrective treatment on young women who want to become men is 'one of the biggest scandals in medical history'

IVF porn is one of those sordid things that everyone knows about but no one has the stomach to talk about.

Is it an affront to society's ability to meaningfully assess female sport performance when biological men begin to compete? 

Ectogenesis is on the edge of moving from science fiction to reality. Artififical wombs might be ready to house premature born babies within the next few years.

Or at least a strategy? 

Teenage sensation climate-activist Greta Thunberg talks a big emotionally-fraught game, but her claims aren't backed up by the data.

When is the right time for those struggling with gender dysphoria to transition? Sometimes the answer is never.

Social Demographers: 'Mental health benefits of cohesive family relationships during adolescence last through midlife.'

This is the story of one transgender man's affliction at the hands of careless medical professionals.

Austrailia: 'Transgender transitions are not justified by biological plausibility or proof of effect, but by the opinion of doctors running clinics.'

A few people still know how to laugh at themselves and others.

Many Americans are drowning in anxiety, and swimming against a tide of drugs. Should we think again about more holistic solutions to our health problems?

The emotional, physical, and intellectual damage wrought by the climate change movement now is coming into clear view. It’s an outcome that should enrage every parent.

Should we respond to the pain of infertility by making some mothers into birthers? What are the consequences for defining mother or child?

Should people stop having children? Even the bigwigs at the United Nations climate agency are starting to be concerned about the climate alarmism.

In the brave new world of artificial everything, anything is possible.

A classic children's novel questions the central tenant of transhumanism. 

A lot of human society is based around fossil fuels. What would the consequence be if we eliminated them?

Facebook and Neuralink are hoping to be able to read or directly connect to your brain. This presents a whole set of ethical problems.

When 22 people were killed in El Paso, Texas, and nine more were killed in Dayton, Ohio, roughly 12 hours later, responses to the tragedy included many of the same myths and stereotypes Americans have grown used to hearing in the wake of a...

For their unorthodox views, some physicians are being treated as medical heretics. Google’s search engine algorithm has essentially ended traffic to their websites.

We must look back at Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and say, “Never again.”

Before you choose to birth strike for the uncertain good of the planet, it might be wise to consider these almost-certain truths.

Online video is contributing to both moral and environmental pollution.

It is not only the medical community who have been ignorant in diagnosing the disease. Family and friends have a hard time visualizing the symptoms of Lyme, and thus have a difficulty understanding the true debilitating nature of the illness.

Robotic pets will doubtless be delightful. But they may sharpen rather than blunt our increasing isolation.

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“Contraceptives are the greatest life-saving, poverty-ending, women-empowering innovation ever created.”

As he took his first steps, he uttered words that would be written into history books for generations to come: “That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.”

Natural fertility takes over the App Store.

Statistics show there may exist more Good Samaritans than many believe, thus forcing us to rethink the Bystander Effect. 

Here are seven highlights from her campaign and time in Congress over the past year.

When the theory exploded onto the scene in 1927 (first proposed, by the way, by Catholic priest and astronomer Georges Lemaître), it was seen as a blow to atheists and a vindication of Christianity.

Every once in a while, a news story pops up that should break our hearts. That, or make us retch.

Underneath its unoriginal premise, a Netflix show toys with the idea of giving the human race a complete reset. 

Even if most of us are still using plastic drinking straws and driving gas-guzzlers, the words of the prophet from Stockholm have not fallen on dry ground.

There is a categorical difference between sending your children to the best school you can afford, for example, and altering their genetic code.

It should not be surprising that if social animals such as humans live alone, this will have a negative impact on their mental health.  

There seems to be a wide gap between clinical practice and the research on which it should be based.

Greta and other Western children are given to understand that human beings — they themselves — are the problem.       

When someone talks about someone having "rights," what do they mean?

The American Academy of Pediatrics has unfortunately taken a major step that, if not reversed, will undermine that trust.

If Darwinism was true, did it need to be touted as “still true?”

In all likelihood, assisted dying patients will have to take their chances, along with those tormented prisoners on gurneys in American prisons.

So, while journalists like to talk about how many people climate change will supposedly kill this year, the fact remains that the net gains in life expectancy continue to be positive.

Is it time we "affirm the knight"?

Maybe some day, scientists will evolve into philosophers. Only then will they be able to tell what the real difference between animals and humans is

Red Meat is good for you.  It made the human race. 

Astronomer and chairman of the New York-based American Museum-Hayden Planetarium, Dr. Franklyn Branley, addresses the question.

Technological advance continues and nothing seems to stop it or slow it down. Philosopher Ortega Y Gasset says that this is rooted in the nature of man. 

 Simply shouting “climate change” doesn’t offer the state’s citizens a thorough explanation, nor does it yield tangible solutions that we can begin to implement now.

The experiments in China with genetically modified babies is just the beginning of what could go wrong.

As the Grinch discovers, a fully human life is possible only for those whose hearts are big and full.

Therapists and journalists are beginning to question the wisdom of putting children on the transgender path.

Physicians have a responsibility to at least talk to their patients about these options before reaching for the prescription pad.

There's a major difference for family members experiencing natural death vs. assisted suicide.

No one likes to go under the knife... and unfortunately, that experience is set to get worse. 

Stephen Hawking’s own personal brief history of time is up. But he left as he lived, feisty, modern and… depressing.

Is society so eager to affirm and advance those who struggle with gender dysphoria that it overlooks common sense and solid research?

Nordhaus’ contributions to economic science aren’t confined to the field of climate change. Here are three other contributions that give insight into the work of this celebrated economist.

Should we associate political disagreements with mental illness with such a dark history behind that practice?

The problem that any rational thinker needs to tackle is that the science increasingly shows that atheists are no more rational than...

The Washington Post editorial board has 

Successful womb transplants have given birth to the notion that transgender women or even cisgender men could bear children. 

Is it time to stop making people feel guilty for not going to the polls?

A new study sheds some light on the issue.

Sometimes, the only way to help someone seems to be a cruel or nasty approach – a strategy that may leave the ‘helper’ feeling guilty and wrong.

Many past claims about climate change have proven false. Is it time we focused our attention on more pressing matters?

History has shown that experts aren’t often much better than the average person when it comes to forecasting the future.

When we elevate our feelings as if they are the truth, we degrade our minds and ourselves.

The fear created by the phrase “3D-printed guns” should not be allowed to override common sense.

Science is like a car: it can get us where we want to go, but it should never decide where we go.

Gratitude has long enjoyed a privileged position in many of the world’s faith traditions. Recent scientific studies support these ancient teachings.

According to the latest report from the government agency which tracks euthanasia deaths, the children were 9, 11 and 17 years old.

Why do batteries die? And, why can they only be recharged so many times before they won’t hold a useful amount of charge? The answer lies in what scientists call "capacity fade".

When acting on our desires in the marketplace means signing over our data to corporate entities, the erosion of choice is revealed to be the consequence of choice – or at least, the consequence of celebrating choice.

Open-plan office spaces ruin concentration and decrease the desire to collaborate with others.

New research allows scientists "to rewrite the DNA bound up in living cells," and now an ethics panel suggests this may be "morally permissible."

Should we be looking to tech visionaries for life advice and personal guidance?

This also was the third consecutive year that emissions in the U.S. declined.

Happy World Population Day! Should we be worried about whether the earth can support us? 

Dr. David Mackereth, 55, the father of four, was dismissed from the department after only recently being hired because he told the instructor for a training course that he would not recognize a pronoun that didn’t correspond to a patient’s...

A recently released report found an “institutionalized regime” of disregard for human life at Gosport War Memorial Hospital.

In April 1945, three days before his death, Adolf Hitler expressed regret that he'd 'been so kind.'

The technology that allowed Marty McFly to travel back in time in the 1985 movie Back to the Future was the mythical flux capacitor, designed by inventor Doc Brown.

In his 1989 book Oracle at the Supermarket, psychologist Steven Starker explained how the self-help industry had become a sort of spiritual guide for individuals seeking answers.

There is a long-standing hypothesis in psychology that helps us understand. It’s called cognitive dissonance theory.

Beyond how we respond to pop-culture, reactance has become a fundamental part of American political discourse.

Doomsday is not around the corner; doomsday is in the heads of those who have swigged the climate-change Kool-Aid.

Political ideology is seen by many researchers as the main culprit of science skepticism. The research, however, suggests something else.

John Cleese of Monty Python fame posited an interesting theory on why many people feel compelled to control the words and behaviors of others.

As Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute shows, the push for diversity has become a clear and present danger to scientific progress.

As a speech scientist, I never thought I’d see so much excitement on social media about one tiny little word.

Like most people I’ve spoken with, I have no innate, inflexible antipathy to ethanol in gasoline. What upsets me are the deceptive claims used to justify adding mostly corn-based ethanol to this indispensable fuel....

This sort of antidote won’t stop people from going too far when consuming alcohol, but it...

People should not be fooled. Mark Zuckerberg never cared about your privacy.

Your inability to stop eating chips isn't merely a lack of willpower; it's the result of a conscious effort on the part of food scientists.

Research out of Yale University suggests the internet is making humans believe they are smarter than they actually are.

Resilience depends not only on what happens to us but how we interpret what happens to us.  

Those in the medical community are beginning to speak up about the dangers of helping children transition to the opposite sex.

China’s rating scheme is the latest and most expansive effort by central planners to use government to encourage good behavior.

Are white people really responsible for carrying out more mass shootings? A look at the data.

Stephen Hawking once pronounced that he thought he was little more than a computer and that, because of this, he was unafraid to die.

There’s no doubt Hawking’s death is a huge loss to physics. But personally, what I will...

In his classic book 'The Art of Loving,' social psychologist Erich Fromm explained how 'being in love' depends largely on increasing our own capacity to love.

Stephen Hawking inspired millions by a unique example of achievement against all the odds – a manifestation of amazing willpower and determination.

Eight prisoners have applied for medical aid in dying.

People with high-conflict personality are the source of many of the most intense relationship conflicts, even though they account for just 10 percent of the population.

Abigail Marsh, an associate professor of psychology at Georgetown University, has discovered a trait common among altruistic people. 

The best thing that a school district security department can do to protect students is to invest heavily in cultivating a personal relationship with every single student.

When it comes to the theory of multiple universes, one of the most important means by which a scientific hypothesis can be confirmed is simply unavailable. 

Everybody can appreciate acts of kindness. But when it comes to explaining why we do them, people often take one of two extreme positions.

John Olson, a science specialist at the Minnesota Department of Education, had the opportunity to be a credentialed observer at the UN’s Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. This is what he saw.

When we confabulate, we tell a story that is fictional, while believing that it is a true story.

Nearly one in four people caught cheating were exposed through Facebook, a recent UK study found.

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's 1946 work 'Man’s Search for Meaning' is considered one of the most influential books of all time. It may also hold a key to happiness and success.

How reliable are decades-old memories?

Will your job be one of those that soon disappears?

Do a quick search for “snakes” in the news and you’ll find people terrified, bitten or, sadly, killed by these creatures.

James Cook University professor Peter Ridd was censured and gagged after publicly expressing concerns about the vetting process of scientific research.

The actual entanglements of religious tradition and the development of science are far more interesting than the superficial conflict common today – and far more important.

Generally women involved in teacher-pupil sexual abuse cases do not fit the mould of what many consider a “predatory paedophile.”

Research published in the journal "Emotion" shows how changes in how we're spending our free time coincided with a drop in the happiness of a million students surveyed.

The test has been shown to reliably detect early stage and curable cancers. It has also been found to rarely be positive in people who don’t have cancer.

Babies born to Muslims will begin to outnumber Christian births by 2035, according to new projections.

A "sexpert" explains.

Collective narcissists are not simply content to be members of a valuable group, a psychologist explains. 

Nearly one third of modern marriages in the US now begin online - but that's not the whole story.

The future in a representative capitalist democracy has never shown any inclination to permanency, but the volume and velocity of change approaching our species in the current age may be unprecedented.

Given gluten-free foods cost around 17% more, perhaps it’s time to reconsider a strict gluten-free diet.

A Canadian doctor argues that the flu may hit men worse than women. 

5 feet of snow is keeping families together like nothing else does these days!

Though Wells and Orwell were debating in the era of Nazism, many of their arguments reverberate today in contemporary debates over science and policy.

New research suggests parents may hold the key to fidelity.

Perhaps it is time to reevaluate your conservation goals, and revisit SeaWorld.

An awareness that pragmatism, not hypocrisy, runs both left and right should open an avenue for productive conversation among Americans across the spectrum.

A new study conducted by researchers at Vanderbilt University found that gay men make considerably more than straight men, on average.

An identity is not biological, it is psychological, a pediatrician writes.

Euphemisms build walls around political tribes and inhibit actual communication. 

Cannabis growers know something that climate scientists apparently don’t know.

The World Medical Association added language to the Physician's Oath calling on doctors to 'respect the autonomy and dignity' of patients who identify as transgender.

Former President Barack Obama, during a visit to India, said "there’s no way" to bridge differences with climate change skeptics.

A new Gallup poll reveals a troubling trend in the U.S.: Americans are detached from reality. 

Reducing the prison population requires a deeper understanding of what drives "the revolving door," two academics say.

Harvard-educated author and self-described "lie spotter" Pamela Meyer says spotting lies is not that hard--if you know what signs to look for.  

It isn’t uncommon for scientists to try to use philosophers for target practice.

If the father is the natural intermediary between the child and the world as a result of the biological differences between the mother and the father, then that is not a role to toss aside lightly.

Are we doomed to mix politics and climate science?

Many of Hollywood's brightest stars have been accused of what a sex therapist calls ‘eroticized rage’.

Joshua Sutcliffe, a Christian pastor from Oxford, admitted he said 'Well done girls' when addressing a group that included a transgender student.

The urge to check social media is now stronger than the urge for sex, a recent study found.

Intellectual diversity creates awareness of our own blinders.

New data highlighted by the New York Times shows that hospital admissions for suicidal teens have doubled in the last decade.

Ivanka Trump recently shared her struggles with postpartum depression on Dr. Oz -- and was immediately criticized for it.

A recent study found there are four ways people often make a bad impression on others.

The "world-leading genital reconstructive surgeon" is getting more and more requests to reverse sex change procedures.

The data show that the opioid crisis is dire and getting worse.

An environmental consultant asks eight important questions, while pointing out some inconvenient facts.

Writing at the Washington Post, statistician Leah Libresco explains that basically everything she believed about the effectiveness of gun control turned out to be wrong.

Brewing a great cup of coffee is all about chemistry and physics.

Should one actually put stock in these “indicators of intelligence”?

Cornell University gerontologist Karl Pillemer conducted a massive study involving 700-plus individuals wedded for some 40,000 years.

A therapist offers 16 signs of narcissistic abuse.

The U. of Illinois Chicago study found that liberals and conservatives are equally likely to be science denialists.

Infants are keen observers of the social world.

Donut eating can teach us a lot about human psychology and economic principles.

Data suggests teens are taking longer than ever to grow up, a psychologist says. 

Pope Francis loves to praise dialogue. But when it comes to global warming he is in 'the science is settled' camp.

Mentally weak people tend to do these three things, according to psychotherapist Amy Morin.

“You think that their emotional problems are going to get better by giving them estrogen, fine. That’s called optimism. It’s not called scientific method."

Many people are claiming that man-made global warming has intensified rainfall and hurricanes, but is this really the case?

Pundits and politicians in the wake of Hurricane Harvey focused on saying, 'I told you so.' But evidence does not support the claim.

Soul musician Daryl Davis can be a model for how to change people’s minds.

Numerous media outlets have attempted to tie recent hurricane activity to global warming. But are the claims supported by scientific evidence?

At a lecture given at the Library of Congress, medievalist and biologist Erin Connelly discussed the relevance of medieval medicine.

Hormones and surgical changes can affect one’s external appearance, but no innate biological change of sex occurs.

The formation of a relationship between two people is an unusually complicated behaviour.

A new survey shows more than half—56% to be precise—of Google's employees say the company was wrong to fire engineer James Damore for his controversial memo.

Four scientists writing for Quillette magazine said the memo was scientifically accurate.

The two episodes of 'Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds' set out to explore the increasing isolation of older people within our communities.

Exorcism is surging in the U.S., and CNN just profiled one of the world's top exorcists. But is demonic possession even real?

Engineering education programs seek to 'de-center' Western civilization from the curricula.

Do we now value animals more than children?

Food science in modern times has been largely defined by hyperbolic conclusions and substantiations that go well beyond scientific facts.  

There are those in the sciences who think that empirical science is the only avenue to truth.

Is it possible that the common narrative of discrimination against women has been crafted by selective forces?

I think he made the right decision—and as someone who lived as trans-female for several years, I should know.

Even when the evidence seems to point to intelligent design, hold out for a purely materialistic, designer-free explanation. One is sure to come along—sooner or later.

The psychopath is often portrayed as cold-blooded and fearless, and, most of all, as a predator incapable of human emotion.

Though it has long been recognized as moral problem, scientific evidence now shows that pornography might cause other problems as well. 

There is a chance it will bring benefits both for their baby and others.

Would interest in science and math soar if kids learned such subjects through hands-on experience in the garden?

Charlie Gard’s tragedy is a mere distraction in the march of progress.

Professionals who dare to question the unscientific party line of supporting gender transition therapy could find themselves maligned or out of a job.

Objectification ends up undermining women, not providing the empowerment they seek.

Is the Heartland Institute right to call this research project “phony science?” Are we turning into “a world of fantasy” and “a world of global...

The internet says if you drink black coffee you're more likely to be a psychopath. So it must be true, right?

A Harvard study examining income, work, and marital stability suggests that 'bread-winning remains a central component of the marital contract for husbands.'

European and American men report the same primary reason for cheating. And it has nothing to do with marital happiness or contentment. 

Authors Michael W. Anderson, a licensed psychologist, and Timothy D. Johanson, an MD, offer a list of indicators.

These are the kinds of dismal consequences which are seldom reported in the media. Even more disturbing, they are seldom studied by academics.

Our planet is warming, humans are the primary or sole cause, and something must be done. But is that really the case? As it turns out, many distinguished scientists are not...

Cosmologist Andrei Linde outlined the possibility of creating a universe in a laboratory: a whole new cosmos that might one day evolve its own stars, planets and intelligent life.

A new study concludes that teen ‘jokesters’ are not significantly skewing data results.  

There is an effort afoot to convince people that humans are essentially no different than other animals. But the idea doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

Many of the global warming lobby's own people deny that the Paris agreement does much of anything to reduce temperatures.

President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. will withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement.

Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement has precipitated a torrent of responses.

The idea that we live in a “multiverse” made up of an infinite number of parallel universes has long been considered a possibility.

Research shows that open people don’t just bring a different perspective, they genuinely see things differently to the average individual.

President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.

A Dilbert cartoon on climate change appears to have irked climatologists and a communications group at Yale University.

Poachers are trawling scientific papers for information on the location and habits of new, rare species.

What the Piltdown Man hoax from 1912 can teach science today.

The surprising benefits of sadness.

The question of whether a God exists is heating up in the 21st century.

Science isn’t inherently associated with liberal or conservative viewpoints, but tribal politics does influence how people think about science.

In some universities, academics are waging a flat-out war on reality.

A new paper seems to ignore recent climate models in order to proclaim that global warming is on the rise.
 

New scientific findings show that men and women have huge genetic differences previously unknown.

The rise of obesity in the U.S. tracks closely with the expansion of America's primary food assistance program.

Did the celebrity science spokesman cover up his past views on gender?

IQ isn't the only way to measure smarts. 

Each year, Earth Day is accompanied by predictions of doom.

Let’s take a look at past predictions to determine just how much confidence we can have in today’s environmentalists’ predictions.

In 1970, when Earth Day was conceived,...

This is a popular historical canard that has everything going for it except objectivity, rationality, and impartiality.

Marching is an expression of subjective emotions. Science is an attempt to put subjectivity aside to discover how nature works.

Neil deGrasse Tyson released a new video on what he sees as a growing anti-intellectualism  in the U.S..

If scientists really want to know who’s to blame for bad science, they need to look at themselves.

Francis Collins, a world-leading geneticist, says there need be no conflict between religion and science. 

As such a study makes perfectly clear, we’re all biased. The question is, what are we going to do with that knowledge?

Nancy Edison rejected schooling in favor of learning for Thomas Edison.

The National Minimum Drinking Age Act (NMDA) is something Donald Trump should move to repeal. Let states decide.

Are they really likely to eat your flesh?

Temps are rising, but data contradicts a direct cause and effect between CO2 levels and temperature increases.

Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam warned that people divorced from community "are first and foremost among the supporters of extremism.”

University of Ottawa professor Jennifer A. Chandler pointed out that combining organ donation with euthanasia could be ethically problematic.

It is bad enough to torture the data, but it is indefensible to torture patients based on manipulated results.

Isaac Asimov’s laws are still mentioned as a template for guiding our development of robots.

Sociologists, economists, geographers and historians describe the divide from different angles.

Children are natural musicians, as they readily sing, dance and play music from the time they are infants.