It is too hard for medical researchers to launch clinical trials.

Confessions of a naive hamster: why the smartest people in the room keep missing that intelligence is often not the main bottleneck in the real world

Confessions of a naive hamster: why the smartest people in the room keep missing that intelligence is often not the main bottleneck in the real world

Drinking a beer a night for a year is a lot less harmful than drinking 365 at once. Radiation is similar.

You have been told that egg freezing doesn't work. Not true. Its effectiveness is limited only by a woman's fertility when they freeze.

Multiple myeloma is brutal. We may finally have a cure, but American regulatory inertia means that it was discovered abroad.

Vaccinating wild animals can protect human health, and spare animals from extinction and suffering.

How randomized controlled trials, preregistration, and results reporting became standard practice.

In a secular world, equality is a last attempt to offer some dignity to the weak

In a secular world, equality is a last attempt to offer some dignity to the weak

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Discussions around the motherhood wage gap reveal the limits of autism and the benefits of female intuition

Many women face a choice between career advancement or motherhood. But emerging fertility technologies could allow women to have it all.

Many women face a choice between career advancement or motherhood. But emerging fertility technologies could allow women to have it all.

Researchers identified one key breakthrough for GLP-1 drugs in the 1980s, but Pfizer walked away.

I perceive the extension of female reproductive lifespan as one of the most significant and potentially rewarding pursuits in biomedical research. Is oocyte cryopreservation a viable strategy?

Summary of arguments against the consensus view that aristocratic women were key to the rise of Christianity in the Late Roman Empire. Based on "The Making of a Christian Aristocracy" by M. Salzman

This is a short post where I respond to some of the people who were not convinced by my previous piece. The gist of that piece is that the role of aristocratic women in the rise of Christianity in the...