His new book, co-authored with Nadine Strossen, offers ten arguments against free speech — and why they fail.
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Common sense says AI companies need to be responsible for their product — just as if it was created directly and disseminated by a human.
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Religious freedom includes the right to maintain sacred sites as well as to worship freely.
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The alternative to the First Amendment is a narratocracy in which a society’s commanding institutions determine what stories are allowed and disallowed.
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“Nature rights” are unnecessary for proper environmental protection. The point is to throttle human activities.
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After the 2016 election, Google leadership decided to prevent voters it saw as populist and low-information from deciding future presidential elections.
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Robert Epstein is the former editor of Psychology Today who, as I discussed yesterday, has studied the ways in which Google can manipulate public opinion.
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Epstein, working through web projects, also provides a sobering assessment of how much Google monitors what average Internet users are doing online.
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The growing crisis of confidence in science isn’t because people believe “science” is bad. It’s because they believe the current scientific elite is untrustworthy.
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Respondents overwhelmingly wanted an even more monolithic approach to social justice through what could be argued as an indoctrinating approach to education.
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English’s proposal is perhaps best seen as a call to assess what the taxpaying public is really buying for all that science funding. Are there smarter ways to spend the money?
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Plastic, used in countless medical products, could not be manufactured including artificial heart valves. Irony: Plastic cells are used in solar panels
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Regardless of who emerges as the victor in the battle between government censors and independent creators, the traditional media landscape is now history.
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What he most wants to advance is open discussion in science. Science, after all, advances more from doubt than from certainty.
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If all sadness, however caused, is depression and all anger, however motivated, is aggression, government can easily create contexts or pretexts for interference
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Respondents were self-selected and are probably more ideological or more personally impacted by the changes in approach.
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All that said, it’s not villains who keep Cancel Culture going. It’s people for whom being Nice is far more important than telling the truth.
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Legacy media are giving way to broader-based social media. But trust in science is also at a low ebb. And what’s the replacement for science?
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States like California that treat parents who refuse to consent to radical procedures as abusers can no longer claim a scientific basis for their policies.
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Effective stroke treatment was almost prevented decades ago because animal rights fanatics nearly destroyed the researcher’s career. PETA still brags about it.
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