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The Disgraceful Campaign Against a Top FDA Official
It’s America’s loss that Vinay Prasad will not be able to make the changes necessary to restore trust in public health officials.
The Editors
Bari’s Picks of the Week: New Frontiers
One baby, three genetic parents; America’s new industrialists; heatstroke—and no AC—in Europe; and much more.
Bari Weiss
One Embryo. Three Parents. The Future Is Already Here.
Eight babies were just conceived from one sperm and two eggs. Is it ethical to create polyparental hybrids? And how does it change what it means to be…
L.S. Dugdale
What I Went Through to Meet My Daughter
A thousand miles from New York City, the place I call home, there’s a clinic that vows to help women with ‘unexplained infertility.’ I traveled there…
Madeleine Kearns
Israeli Researcher Says Stanford Shunned and Sabotaged Him After Hamas Attack
Shay Laps alleges in a lawsuit that his lab results were tampered with and an investigation of him was fabricated.
Maya Sulkin
Is Anyone a Genius?
Helen Lewis on why she thinks genius is a right-wing idea, how Silicon Valley came to fetishize IQ, and why we crave prophets in a godless age.
Bari Weiss
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The Texas Floods Were an Avoidable Tragedy
This weekend, disaster struck one of the nation’s most flood-prone areas, where centuries of data show casualties were foreseeable and preventable.
Roger Pielke Jr.
Press 3 for Moral Panic
The media and prominent Democrats are falsely asserting that Donald Trump has shut down a suicide hotline for LGBT youth.
Brad Polumbo
Tyler Cowen: Does AI Make Us Stupid?
A viral new research paper claims ChatGPT will stop us from thinking. Really?
Tyler Cowen
Our Knowledge System Has Collapsed. Can We Survive Without It?
Even as tech gets degraded, people will still need something solid and reliable that will contribute to human flourishing. In fact, they will need that…
Ted Gioia
Smells Like Green Spirit
New York City’s new eco-policy mixes food scraps with sewage and burns the result. It’s not what residents had in mind.
Josh Code
How Elon Musk Unleashed Chaos Inside the NIH
A frenzy of changes by DOGE underlings is colliding with resistance from the agency’s scientists and top officials.
Gabe Kaminsky
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