Does honey actually work against coughing?
I've been battling my way through round three of my COVID adventures this week, and it's not been fun. 3 days of lying in bed with full body fever, cold…
Who supports biotech eugenics?
Naturally, you've heard that eugenics is something that evil people, in fact, Nazis support. So, which country has more Nazis? PEW research was kind enough to ask a bunch of…
Andrew Sullivan not allowed to tweet the wrong science
The main function of angry activist people on Twitter is to limit the discourse to within the limits they find acceptable. Since Twitter and other social media have mostly left-wing…
Book review: What We Owe the Future, 2022, by William MacAskill
While I am no longer the philosophy blogger I once was, I do occasionally read philosophy that's got something to do with science. I saw some references to this book…
In Sweden, talking about race and intelligence will get you a fine
I have somehow not heard of this case, but there's an ongoing case in Sweden where a 80-ish year old man, Bertil Malmberg, talked about the intelligence of nations, specifically…
Who’s attacking Asians in USA? The perennial push to hide crime statistics
NBC: PBS: There's an endless number of govt and semi-govt websites already: Main non-profit: https://stopaapihate.org/ NYC government: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/cchr/community/stop-asian-hate.page United Nations: https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2022/03/if-we-stay-silent-violence-continues Of course, the conservatives are on the defensive in…
New paper out: The Intelligence Gap between Black and White Survey Workers on the Prolific Platform
This one was overshadowed by the more important paper on economic growth that I wrote about in the prior post. Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2022). The Intelligence Gap between Black…
National intelligence really is the best predictor of economic growth
This is the sister post to the one on Anglo Reaction’s Substack. We published a new paper of high significance, and we didn’t agree about how to summarize it for…
Social status bias in science: a dissident perspective
Let me tell you a story about science. (Deep breath) Once upon a time there was no peer review in science. Instead, the editor made his own comments and edits,…
Nathaniel Weyl: collected works
Nathanial Weyl was a very interesting chap. Wikipedia says: Nathaniel Weyl (July 20, 1910 – April 13, 2005) was an American economist and author who wrote on a variety of…