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Why Cambridge Enabled Arday

Why did Cambridge anoint Jason Arday to a chaired professorship despite his weak academic training and meager publication record? While Arday deserves credit as con artist extraordinaire, his skills could never have sufficed without a mixtu...

8 days ago
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Lessons from Arday’s Lived Experience

Note: This article was written a week ago, before yesterday’s tragic news of Jason Arday’s suicide. Already this is being blamed on his unjust persecution by critics. I fault all those who celebrated his compulsive lying for the sake of D...

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Scientists, Engage!

This oped was first published in the Chronicle of Higher Education on July 31, 2026.

Many scientists were among the 500,000 people who submitted comments to the Office of Management and Budget during the six-week public-comment period foll...

15 days ago
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AI and the doomsday scenario

This is updated from the Tablet article Keep Thinking: machines won’t do it for you.

In a 1983 op-ed in Omni magazine, the science fiction writer and polymath Vernor Vinge famously claimed that humans would soon create “intelligences great...

18 days ago
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My Journey to a Free Speech Podcast

On my Saturday morning bike ride with Jeff, he started, “Evan, that FIRE podcast was excellent,” then he added (without the hint of irony), “but I gotta ask, how did you get on it?” There can be no hurt feelings between biking buddies.

The...

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  • Dorian Abbot

    I am a professor at the University of Chicago.

  • Randy Wayne

    I am an Associate Professor in the School of Integrative Plant Sciences at Cornell University. I call myself a natural philosopher as I see no real divisions between the scientific disciplines. My research is on the nature of light.

  • Anna Krylov

    Anna Krylov is a professor of chemistry at the University of Southern California. She received her professional training from Moscow State University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of California, Berkeley.

  • Sergiu Klainerman

    Higgins professor of mathematics at Princeton University

  • Kent Osband

    Economic historian, finance theorist, and fan of reasoned debate

  • Coel Hellier

    I'm a scientist. Posts here are likely to be about the nature and philosophy of science, and about societal issues such as secularism and free speech: reality above ideology; free speech above taboos.

  • Daniel Nuccio

    Daniel Nuccio holds advanced degrees in bio and psych. When not studying host-microbe relationships in lonely voles, he spends his time moonlighting as a journalist. He is a regular contributor to both The College Fix and The Brownstone Institute.

  • Jay Tanzman

    TBA

  • Luana Maroja

    Luana is a professor of Biology at Williams college. She got her PhD in evolutionary Biology from Cornell University, and her undergraduate and master degrees from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

  • Suzannah Alexander

    Whistleblower, but on my off days I can bake an enviable pie or spin a yarn. Wielder of a dry wit, hobbies include fist shaking, compulsive questioning, and running with dogs in cold rain.

  • Evan D. Morris

    Evan D. Morris is Prof. of Bioimaging at Yale. He develops models to analyze PET images. He led 25 Yale profs to Israel and produced, "Indivisible. The Israeli Academy after Oct 7th": https://www.indivisibleyale.com . He doesn’t use AI for drawing.

  • Mark D'Souza

    Mark D’Souza is a practising Canadian physician and author of Lost and Found: How Meaningless Living is Destroying Us and Three Keys to Fix It

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