ethical & philosophical

Media stories about Norway winters & positive thinking lack proper skepticism.

When someone commits suicide, comorbidities on their death certificate don't mean they didn't kill themselves.

While our 'thought leaders' worried about the elderly in the year 2050, a virus that would kill hundreds of thousands of elderly people this year was spreading like wildfire.

Poll sponsors say climate attitudes have been 'remarkably consistent' over two decades.

An impressive new book about the shortcomings of scientific research is inadvertently ironic.

How a safe, well-understood malaria drug was demonized as a COVID-19 treatment. Because a politician said good things about it.

Whales are at no risk of extinction. When 50,000-strong species are classified as 'endangered,' words don't mean what we think they do. 

Humpback whales are thriving, but an activist fundraising campaign says they're on the brink of extinction.

Journalist George Gilder declared the pandemic over in April. Mathematician Isaac Ben-Israel insisted the virus would burn out everywhere 70 days after it began.

Much of the conservative narrative about Benghazi is wrong.