It’s Time For Us All To Get A Little More Humility And Wonder About Coronavirus
The arrogant attitude that we or they own the answer and that anyone suggesting alternative responses to the coronavirus must be acting from stupidity, malice, or greed must stop.
The Wall Street Journal Should Publish Better Data About Asymptomatic Coronavirus Cases
It is true that there are asymptomatic cases not being counted, and we need better testing and studies to refine our data. But this Wall Street Journal article is speculative.
High-Tech Medicine Gets The Headlines, But Low-Tech Also Saves Lives
Many innovative, low-tech approaches to medicine help patients and help reduce the frequency of hospitalizations and, therefore, health care costs.
New Typeface Helps You Remember What You Read — By Erasing It
A new study suggests that when our brain works harder to read or write something, the better we recall the information. Enter Sans Forgetica!
Stop Funding Research Using Fetal Tissue From Abortions
Besides the ethical problems with selling body parts from aborted children, research using those body parts has never led to a single successful clinical treatment despite decades of trying.
What Research Says About How Religion Affects Your Health
Despite ample reason to believe that faith in a higher power is associated with improved health, very little is still known about the effect religion has on the living body.
Why Is The NIH Giving Billions Of Taxpayer Dollars To Other Countries?
The NIH surreptitiously invests in all kinds of foreign public health research, effectively gambling our taxpayer money away with little accountability.
Study Claiming Prejudice Makes LGBT People Die Younger Gets Retracted
Criticism of the study and its retraction got much less attention than the initial findings did, because initial findings supported the ‘right’ narrative.
Federal Agencies’ Nutrition And Obesity Recommendations Are Junk Science
Too often, medical research is stunted by cronyism, bad incentives, and lack of competent peer review. And it all comes at the expense of taxpayers.
Is Google Manipulating User Opinions And Behavior?
Research suggests that Google is using search engine suggestions to sway user opinions, Dr. Robert Epstein explains on the Federalist Radio Hour.
It’s Well-Established In Psychological Research That Memories Are Unreliable
In her seminal article, researcher Elizabeth Loftus warned against trusting therapists due to their bias towards assuming the reality of reconstructed memories.
Journals, Universities Deep-Six Study For Noticing Men And Women Are Different
A study exploring Darwinian reasons there are both more highly intelligent and intelligence-deficient men than women underwent a bitter suppression campaign from professors at prestigious universities.
Sex Neuroscientist Says Sex Differences Are Biological, Not A Social Construct
On this episode of the Federalist Radio Hour, Dr. Debra Soh discusses brain imaging, differences between women and men, and gender-neutral parenting.
Online Mobs Drive Ornithologist Into Research Secrecy After Learning He Killed A Bird
Something must have gone wrong with the culture’s conspicuous love of science, because it is manifesting itself in odd spasms of hostility to science.
Nearly Four In Five College Departments Don’t Employ A Single Republican
Among tenure-track college professors at the nation’s top-ranked liberal arts schools, registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by more than 10 to 1.
These 4 Studies Show The Importance Of Fact-Checking Junk Science
Unfortunately, science, especially social science, exists in a highly politicized and media-saturated environment that celebrates novelty over consensus and drama over diligence.
No, Most U.S. Gun Owners Don’t Stockpile 17 Or More Guns
Newsweek recently published an article titled: ‘Was Stephen Paddock Normal? Many Gun Owners Keep 17 Firearms on Average.’ It’s based on a study that is all wrong.
After Barring Geologist From Grand Canyon Because He’s A Christian, Park Service Relents
Three years, one congressman, and a mountain of attorneys later, the National Park Service is doing the right thing for a Christian geologist.
Can You Trust Abortion Industry ‘Science’?
Unsurprisingly, the Guttmacher Institute consistently releases data they say shows that their abortion industry allies and funders have done no harm.
Research Claiming Sex-Change Benefits Is Based On Junk Science
Sex-change studies base their conclusions on as few as 10 percent of study subjects. The truth is, many people who follow Caitlyn Jenner’s path will deeply regret it.
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