Technology

AI needs to be regulated to ensure its benefits don’t stay with the mega-rich

Graeme Morledge -
Regulating the Industrial Revolution didn't stifle innovation, it ensured technology served the people – regulating Big Tech and AI can do the same today.
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Health

Rio Vista: the first city to start, and then stop, water fluoridation

Dayton Murphy -
Rio Vista's community water fluoridation was a great public health win - until it fell victim to a coordinated anti-fluoride campaign.
Skepticism

From the archives: Skepticism, 1895 Style – A medium tries to convert the skeptics

Tom Ruffles -
From the archives, the 19th century medium Dr Louis Schlesinger meets his match in the form of skeptic Harry Warren.
Paranormal

Pam Reynolds, and putting ‘out-of-body experiences’ to the scientific test

Mike Hall -
Pam Reynolds' 1991 out-of-body experience claims suggested to some that consciousness lives outside the mind – until scientists proved otherwise.
Alternative Medicine

The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal

Edzard Ernst -
Prior to its closure, the journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retracted hundreds of papers due to concerns over their validity.
Conspiracy Theories

Bill Hicks embodied all the good and bad of High Weirdness

Aaron Rabinowitz -
Bill Hicks was a brilliant and passionate comedian, but one who was prone to conspiracy theory, high weirdness, and a proto-incel level of misogyny.
Archive

From the archives: The theft of the Tarot Pack, and the history of Tarot

Daf Tregear -
From the archives in 1993, Daf Tregear looks at the history of Tarot, and how it came to be co-opted fully by believers in the occult.
Alternative Medicine

Patients can’t have true autonomy in health without access to good information

André Bacchi -
Patients have a right to choose how they want to be treated – but for that choice to mean anything, they must be given accurate information.
Conspiracy Theories

Who’s afraid for Naomi Wolf? The fall of a feminist icon into a conspiracist rabbithole

Michael Marshall -
Throughout the pandemic, writer Naomi Wolf fell from feminist icon and public intellectual, to conspiracy theorist and talking head of the right-wing media ecosystem
Technology

In the era of AI, cognitive biases are not exclusive to humans

Richard Glover -
Far from being capable of objective judgements, AI and machine learning replicate the biases and prejudices of the very human data they're trained on.
Archive

From the archives: The power of the publisher

Wendy M. Grossman -
From the archives in 1993, Wendy Grossman on the responsibility of publishers whose stable of content spans from the scientific to the preposterous.
Health

Lost in translation: why most longevity breakthroughs don’t become therapies

Brian Goncus -
From calorie restriction to enzyme supplements, longevity hackers are often quick to jump on the latest research - but over time, it fails to hold up.

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