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In this age of utopian technologies, we can design mechanical limbs for amputees and chemically engineer happiness for depressives. But should we? From the fluoride in our water to genetically modified babies, scientific advances pose complex new ethical questions. We ask discuss the major bioethical issues of our time. Is philosophy braced for... See more

Equality is our Great God, so it's no surprise Charles Murray's 1995 book on group IQ differences set off a storm. But 52 brave scientists risked their careers to support it. Who were they? Here's a full list + their most interesting books. Meet The Bell Curve Reading List: 1. Seymour Itzkoff: The Decline of... See more

To be fair, I don’t think they can “clean up their community”, given that their preferred area of HBD research can only pretty much only have negative outcomes for society as a whole.

I mean “means of manufacturing and distributing poison gas in urban spaces” might be an area of research, but I’m going guess that anyone who spends their time deeply... See more

So is this the real threat? Not that we’ll believe false things, but that we’ll stop being able to identify true things? Where truth becomes impossible to establish?