Homosexuality is a mental illness
To be precise, exclusive homosexuality is. But let's backtrack a bit. Scott Alexander has a new piece out that begins with this disclaimer: CONTENT NOTE: This essay contains sentences that…
To be precise, exclusive homosexuality is. But let's backtrack a bit. Scott Alexander has a new piece out that begins with this disclaimer: CONTENT NOTE: This essay contains sentences that…
I know, I know. It's fashionable to hate on formal education in the rationalist community. Here's an obligatory Twitter poll: And there's even some push-back in the funny article Why…
Drugs are bad mmk? Well, are they? The go-to argument involves looking at drug abusers. It's hard to say something positive about drug abuse in general. Everybody has a story…
I want to put together a theory to explain a putative phenomenon: Ashkenazi Jews have more geniuses relative to non-Jewish Europeans (gentiles) than one would expect based on their average…
This one comes up a lot when we discuss the dire realities of the average intelligence levels seen in Sub-Saharan African countries: If the mean IQs are 70, wouldn't that…
Since the 1930s, people are getting older and older before having children, as the importance of careers and education to people seems to increase without stop. As older people are…
Back in 2015 at ISIR, a researcher gave a presentation about mental illness and intelligence, reporting it was elevated at high intelligence levels, along with all kinds of other issues.…
Remember this guy? His name is Noah Esbensen. Actually, he is not a big deal outside of Denmark, but he made a brief stir in the media by going into…
Probably many of you have seen this meme about aposematic hair color: For those not into memes: the idea is that poisonous animals advertise their dangerousness by bright colors to…
In popular discourse and the media, the debate is between those who recognize significant genetic causation in mental illnesses versus the status quo blank slate people who leave all such…