Science & Technology | Sex & Gender

The “Appeal to the Noble Savage” Fallacy

the chickens come home to roost

Science & Technology | Sex & Gender

You Go Girl - by Heather Heying - Natural Selections

In drag, and in pink

“Pushing social norms is standard human practice. But throwing everything into the blender and hitting liquefy, just because you can, is both juvenile and dangerous.”

You Go Girl: an exploration of drag, and Barbie, at Natural Selections.

History | The Human Niche

Highlights from Natural Selections in 2023

A little bit of everything

History | The Human Niche

Little Things That I Love

Musings on a December Day

a little break from horror

History | The Human Niche

A kind of winning

The shape of this moment in time

History | The Human Niche

Things That Caught My Eye #3

Sex, drugs, and a total lack of rock and roll

History | The Human Niche

Together, we can finish the job!

Campaign slogans, now and then

Health & Fitness | Health & Medicine

Fish, fishy, and fish adjacent

Why eat like an Inuit when you can pop a pill

In a system where science is being bludgeoned to death and those who are witness to the crime either yell about it and are shoved into a corner, or remain silent and continue to collect their paychecks,

where the only “evidence” necessary to make scientific or medical claims is to refer to the recommendations of organizations (e.g. FDA, AHA) and publications (e.g. Science, Nature),

in an era when those same organizations and publications are strapped for cash and looking for new ways to stay afloat,

those organizations and publications will absolutely get gamed. They will become corrupt. They will get captured. And so they will remain in existence, sort of. Still draped in the aura and gravitas of their former reputations, they may look like the august sheep of old, but are very much wolves on the inside.

Health & Fitness | Health & Medicine

Apparently, We’re the Bad Guys

-or- Don't Ask Permission to Speak

Your health is your own, and so is your voice. You don’t need to ask permission to be healthy, nor do you need to ask permission to speak. Whisper campaigns be damned. Speak up. Share what you know. Share what you believe. Talk about why you think what you do. Be willing to be wrong. When you discover that you have been wrong, be sure to make that clear, too.

News | Education

On College Presidents

Overseers of orthodoxy and heresy

Miscellaneous | Science & Culture

Never Cave to the Mob

A Big Flat Cautionary Tail

The reach of the mob is long. It comes with many heads and ravening claws and crazy eyes and it has secret meetings behind closed doors with those who have not yet chosen a side.

“You’re not one of them?” it asks of the uninitiated.

“Surely you’re on our side?” it continues, a scaly paw gripping the leg of its interlocutor, who has begun to grow wary.

“You wouldn’t want us to have to do this to you, now, would you?” The last question is rhetorical.