Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
Quillette has a published a “case study” showing how one transgender female athlete can wreak substantial damage not just on one woman, or on one sport, but on a ton of women and in five sports (basketball, rowing, volleyball, tae kwon do, and track). I won’t belabor this, for I’ve already written a lot about … Continue reading More on how trans female athletes damage women’s sports
Reader Jay called my attention to the free online presence of John McWhorter’s Sept. 25th interview/conversation for Quillette. You can now watch an hour of McWhorter conversing with Josh Szeps by clicking on the screenshot below. The title of the event was “Our oppressive moment,” and I presume that refers to McWhorter as a black … Continue reading John McWhorter’s conversation for Quillette now available
The piece below from Nature Human Behavior, published in August, calls for the editorial censorship of scientific research that, though its results may be correct or even important, could be “harmful” to society. You can access it by clicking on the screenshot, or getting a free pdf here): I managed to put up a short … Continue reading Jonathan Rauch: Should academic journals appoint themselves social justice gatekeepers?
Joshua Katz was a classics professor at Princeton until May of this year, when he was summarily fired for having a consensual relationship with an undergraduate at his school. As this article the NY Times recounts, the circumstances of Katz’s being fired were murky and controversial, as apparently he had already been punished for this relationship … Continue reading In praise of my university
P-22 was probably the most famous mountain lion (Puma concolor; aka “puma” or “cougar”) in the world because he lived in Los Angeles and many residents became fond of him. He has his own Wikipedia page, which says, among other things, this: P-22 (c. 2009/2010 – December 17, 2022) was a wild mountain lion who resided in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, … Continue reading Native Americans claim P-22’s body (the Griffith Park mountain lion)
Good morning on Thursday, May 26, 2022, National Blueberry Cheesecake Day. (Not bad, but if you must have sugary fruit on your cheesecake, go with cherries.) It’s also National Paper Airplane Day in the U.S. and National Sorry Day in Australia. The latter day, first started in 1998, constitutes a yearly formal apology to the … Continue reading Thursday: Hili dialogue
Since I’ve now published in Quillette, I guess I’m not only a member of the Intellectual Dark Web, but also an alt-righter and a white supremacist. Or so the Perpetually Aggrieved might say. At any rate, if you click on the screenshot below, or go here, you’ll see my 1900-word response to John Staddon’s essay, … Continue reading My article in Quillette: A rebuttal of John Staddon’s claim that secular humanism is a religion
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the place of identity politics (and, lately, the fight against racism) in science, and had some more thoughts when I read a new article in Quillette by two French scientists. (Click on screenshot.) The title pretty much tells it all: the authors see “racial tribalism” in America—the infusion … Continue reading The incursion of identity politics into science
