Category Archives: Moral hazard

Bobby Kennedy Jr. Makes Eugenics Great Again at Health and Human Services

RFK Jr. embrace pseudoscience and embarks on eugenicist policies that seek to identify and disempower the underprivileged.

How Long Until You Lose Your Constitutional Rights?

Trump adviser Stephen Miller is talking about suspending habeas corpus due to “invasion.” Whether that happens or not, we’re still seeing constitutional rights continue to erode as the “War on Terror” comes home.

Forensic Science Faces an Identity Crisis

To avoid bias, should scientists direct evidence collection from a crime scene? Or should they stay removed from it?

How an Israeli-US Startup Wants to Make Geoengineering Profitable

Forget contrails. Here’s a geoengineering initiative that should give cause for pause.

Paradise Is a Police State: Examining the Techno-Optimism of Billionaire Silicon Valley Investor (And Unofficial Trump Administration Adviser) Marc Andreessen

The unlimited AI and energy now being unleashed is supposed to usher in a new utopia centered around low wages and prices. So why are Andreessen and friends so intent on a police state as part of the grand experiment we’re all being enlisted in?

How Los Angeles Can Fireproof Communities, Not Just Houses

Ideas about how to reduce fire risk in Los Angeles do not appear to go far enough.

Evaluating the Risks of Engineered Viruses and Bacteria, aka ‘Mirror Life’

Scientists seem unduly casual about the threats posed by engineered bacteria and viruses that are chemical mirror images of natural ones

The Wars Come Home

Silicon Valley looks to bring tech used in conflicts abroad back to American shores.

Why Does the West Hate Russia So Much?

“The Spectre of War” by Jonathan Haslam provides some clues — at least for the UK.

Peer Review: What Does It Really Mean Today?

Why peer review is not what you might think it is, and what can be done to remedy that.