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You might well think that talk of a multiverse is unscientific.

This piece first appeared on the Heterodox STEM Substack In 2024 the California Reparations Task Force recommended that each black descendant of slaves living in California receive $1 million as “reparations” for slavery.

This piece first appeared on the Heterodox STEM Substack The Blank Slate, the idea that differences in human personality and behaviour are entirely the result of that person’s experiences earlier in life, is utterly dominant in swathes of the social scien…

This first appeared at the Heterodox STEM Substack Bo Winegard writes about science and philosophy at the Aporia Substack, where, in a recent article, he discussed the relationship between science and notions of “meaning” and “purpose”.

This piece was written as a reply for Heterodox STEM, where it first appeared.

This was first published on Jerry Coyne’s website: Why Evolution is True Everyone is interested in whether life exists on other planets.

This was written for The Conversation (this being my original edit of the piece).

I recently wrote a piece arguing that estimates of the heritability of intelligence that derive from twin studies are likely to be more accurate than the lower estimates from GWAS studies (Genome-Wide Association Studies).

Slavery shows us “an example of how facts and reason can determine values and morals”, declares Michael Shermer.

Whether differences in intelligence are due to people’s different genes or to their different environments has long been contentious.