When I went into science 35 years ago, I was extremely idealistic. I believed that being a scientist required the highest moral standards, that scientists cared only about advancing human knowledge & benefiting humanity, & made sacrifices for it. I couldn’t have been more wrong.

Rudi Bachmann @[email protected] Philosophie. Da sind auch alle gleich Nationaltrainer.

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🚨BREAKING: My Commentary in Archives of Sexual Behavior—“Why There Are Exactly Two Sexes”—has been published! In it, I explain why biological sex is binary in all anisogamous species, defined strictly by the type of gamete (sperm or ova) an organism’s reproductive system has

That's incredible. Women are much more intolerant of different campus speakers than men are.

Nikita Zakharov

“If there is a rational basis for thinking, for instance, that agony is a bad thing and that it’s good to reduce agony, I would hope that any rational being, human or nonhuman, would agree with that judgment.” —Peter Singer on objectivity in ethics

“the average person’s beliefs are a social signal, not a deep philosophical stance. The reason they get so angry when challenged is because the belief was never based on logic. It’s not about ideas; it’s about group membership.” quillette.com/2025/10/03/how…

People w/PhDs are more likely to be inventors. But do PhDs-->innovation or is it all selection? My brilliant student Manfredi Aliberti finds answer is YES using possibly the best setting : Italy in the 1980s. Read his JMP (and interview him!) to know more tinyurl.com/432sw6cz

Never Get Cheated On --- 0:00 Introduction 0:20 Part I: Mate Selection 10:14 Part II: Mate Retention 14:36 Part III: Infidelity Detection 16:59 Conclusion

Bingeing TikTok reels may be hazardous to your well-being. 71 studies, >98k people: The more short-form videos teens and adults watched, the more they struggled with attention, self-control, and stress and anxiety. Read a book. Watch a movie. Long live longform.

I was honestly surprised by my finding that activism had replaced science for many folks. I thought it was going to be a controversial finding and folks would be offended at the accusation. (Some are.) But what I'm seeing at ASC is: it's not only well known (by those who support

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»Wo, wie in der heutigen westlichen Welt, ein Großteil der Bürger nichts besitzt, … sind persönliche Freiheiten und politische Rechte in erheblichem Maße abhängig von der Gnade der kapitalistischen oder staatlichen Eigentümer und Direktoren der Produktionsmittel« (Aldous Huxley)