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2026 63

  1. Friendly Neighborhood Police Stations
  2. Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism
  3. How Many Americans Live “Paycheck-to-Paycheck”?
  4. Will El Salvador Grow?
  5. Does African Writing Sound Like AI?
  6. Anti-Vaxxers Are Innumerate
  7. Still Discriminating
  8. The Invention of Islamic Invention
  9. Is Everyone Dying of Medical Errors?
  10. Thomas Jefferson Had Kids With Sally Hemings
  11. Testosterone Isn’t the Aggression Chemical
  12. What’s Up With Self-Hating White Liberals?
  13. How g-Loaded is the Wordsum?
  14. America’s Bad Cities Are Costing You
  15. Everyone Loves Cargo Cults
  16. The Great Permitting Downturn and Your Rent
  17. Data Center Madness Isn’t About AI
  18. I Made a Website to Monitor Data Center Effects on Electricity Prices
  19. Can the Truth Convince People to Like Data Centers?
  20. Climate Change Research Hasn’t Peaked
  21. How Do You Ask An LLM a Question?
  22. Americans: Rich and Short-Lived?
  23. Americans Are Richer Than Everyone Else
  24. Botswana Did Everything Right
  25. Do Data Centers Cause... Indian Immigration?
  26. Will Making Your Kids Tall Shorten Their Lives?
  27. #QuitAfrin
  28. Do Hot Drinks Cause Cancer?
  29. Anthropic, please don’t ruin bio for everyone
  30. A Normal Person 30 Years Ago
  31. We Have To Do More To Lower GLP-1 Prices
  32. Viagra for Life Extension
  33. We Should *Live* Forever
  34. Why Don't Statins Cause Dementia?
  35. Obesity is Falling
  36. Why Are Testosterone Levels Rising?
  37. Do Teachers Need Advanced Degrees?
  38. Statins and Strength
  39. Think About Control Variables
  40. Against Attribution Studies
  41. Fear and Medical Side Effects
  42. I Don't Believe In 'Gluten Intolerance'
  43. Take the Money and Run
  44. Is Ultraprocessed Food Even Bad?
  45. When Did Poor People Get Fat?
  46. "Nutrition Science's Most Preposterous Result" is False
  47. Is Seed Oil Intake Correlated With Bad Health?
  48. Social Scientists Are Lazy
  49. Is It Possible to Be Healthy at Every Size?
  50. Unlocking a Taxpayer-Funded Dataset
  51. One Weird Trick to Get Significant Results
  52. Wearables Mostly Don't Work
  53. Fast Fact Check: Does Hep B Vaccination Cause Autism?
  54. The Other Type of Flynn Effect
  55. Sex Differences in Intelligence
  56. Why Do Olympic Hosts Win More Medals?
  57. Are Girls Smarter Than Boys?
  58. 2025 SAT Data Drop
  59. Your Allergies Are Probably Fake
  60. Laser Eye Surgery
  61. Rating Trump's FDA's "Top 10" Year-1 Reforms
  62. El Salvador Update
  63. Pit Bulls Part I: Identification

2025 48

  1. Brief Notes on Scientific Critique
  2. Fertility Goes Up When Men Win
  3. Yes, Affirmative Action Justifies Discrimination
  4. GDP is Inevitable
  5. Gypsies and Jews
  6. The Tale of the Strawberries
  7. Intelligence and Social Mobility
  8. The Making of an Elite: Japanese Christians
  9. People Listen to Public Health Authorities
  10. Is There Lead In Your Protein?
  11. An Autism Challenge
  12. Let's Not Overstate Support For Violence
  13. The Myth of the Sommelier
  14. Tylenol and Autism: A Replication!
  15. Could Universal GLP-1 Drugs End the Obesity Epidemic?
  16. The Persistence of Poverty in America
  17. "Harvard Study Says..."
  18. Did The HHS Just Explain Autism?
  19. How To End The Autism Epidemic
  20. Are All the Good Men Married?
  21. Why Romania Excels in International Olympiads
  22. European Immigrants Were Always Considered White
  23. There Are No More Excuses To Be Fat
  24. The Generational Toll of Abortion
  25. Protein Soda Review Time!
  26. Ozempic and Alcoholism: Does It Work?
  27. Bad Drugs Get Pulled Fast
  28. A Modest Proposal To Turn Canada Into a Narco State
  29. You Can't Just "Control" For Things
  30. Go Ahead And Have Kids
  31. Columbia Is Still Discriminating
  32. Most Trend Breaks Aren't Real
  33. Early-Onset Cancer Fast Facts
  34. The 23andMe Deal
  35. Ozempic and Muscle Mass
  36. "Yes, and..." Urbanism
  37. Storks Take Orders From the State
  38. What’s the Deal With Autism Rates?
  39. The Holistic Judgment Conceit
  40. The Demise of the Flynn Effect
  41. Nutrition Beliefs Are Just-So Stories
  42. Fertility Policy For Rich Countries
  43. Sometimes Papers Contain Obvious Lies
  44. The End of Credentialism?
  45. How To Get Cheap Ozempic
  46. The Value of Foreign Diplomas
  47. Lessons About the Civil Service and Political Appointees
  48. National IQs Are Valid

2024 60

  1. Evaluating a Sitting Senator's Healthcare Claims
  2. Grading the World's Shortest Manifesto
  3. Focusing on Healthcare’s Administrative Costs Is Misguided
  4. "You Couldn't Replicate Our Study Because You're Ugly"
  5. Trump Should Finish What He Started
  6. Preregistration Is No Panacea
  7. American Elections Are Unfair
  8. Workers For Robots
  9. China's Upside-Down Meritocracy
  10. Eliminating Distractions in Longevity Research
  11. Just Pay Them Off
  12. 2024 SAT Data Drop
  13. The Ottoman Origins of Modernity
  14. The Worst Argument Against Ozempic
  15. Food Deserts Are Not Real
  16. High-Frequency Trading Is Good
  17. Did Unions End Long Work Hours?
  18. Rich Country, Poor Country
  19. Woke Madness
  20. Why America’s Racial Poverty Statistics Are a Lesson for Researchers
  21. The Blue Zone Distraction
  22. WEIRD Doesn't Work
  23. From Caveman to Chinaman
  24. Maybe You're Just Not Smart
  25. Voters Don't Penalize Candidates For Being Minorities or Women
  26. Why Economists Detect Fraud
  27. Tim Walz's Good Idea
  28. No, White Women Are Not The Biggest Beneficiaries of Affirmative Action
  29. The Vast Emptiness of Social Psychology
  30. Minority Report Is Coming
  31. Don't Ignore Your Intercepts
  32. A Requiem for Nutrition
  33. Subscriber Preview: Taking the Flynn Effect Seriously
  34. Why Accelerated Learning Might Matter More For Larger Families
  35. The Dogs of New York
  36. Thoughts on "Thoughts on HBD"
  37. Are the Rich Antisocial and the Poor Emotionally Intelligent?
  38. Meetups Are Fun
  39. From Pollution to Solution
  40. Adjust Your Expectations
  41. Schooling Effects Beyond Test Scores
  42. Why Do We Keep Getting This Wrong?
  43. Birth Order Effects Needn't Be Biological
  44. Correlations and Coin Flips
  45. The Rise and Impending Fall of the Dental Cavity
  46. The Status of the Shared Environment
  47. Nonhuman Intelligence
  48. What Happens When You Use a Biased Test for Admissions?
  49. Explaining Anomalous GCSE Results
  50. Education Isn’t What It Used To Be
  51. Testing for genetic confounding can be hard
  52. Climate Change is a Policy Choice
  53. Bias in Admissions and Hiring
  54. Intermarriage in America Post-Loving v. Virginia
  55. Fraud, Incompetence, or Both?
  56. Bias is Often Unpredictable
  57. Diversity Goals Imply Quality Trade-Offs
  58. Wanted: More Maternal Health Research
  59. The Myth of Nigerian Excellence
  60. Missing Fixed Effects Don't Justify Segregation

2023 42

  1. The State of 'the Gaps' 2022-23
  2. Updated Estimates of IQs Within Israel
  3. Pinpointing Jewish IQ
  4. The Cultural Power of Elite Immigrants
  5. Errors
  6. Elites are genetically different
  7. Brief Data Post
  8. What Went Into the Melting Pot?
  9. A Twitter/X Data Crosspost
  10. Two Stories About Jews
  11. How Many Sexual Misconduct Allegations Are False?
  12. The Cycle of Violence
  13. The Pro-Life Should Play a Different Game
  14. Powerful and Powerless Minorities
  15. Numbers on the Italian Migrant Situation
  16. Jailbirds of a Feather Flock Together
  17. Serial Killers Are More Likely to Be Victims Than Killers
  18. The Fruits of Philosophy
  19. Post Replications!
  20. Brief Data Post
  21. The Deep Roots of Intelligence Differences
  22. Do Women Also Know Stuff?
  23. Surrogacy: Looking for harm
  24. We’re All Evangelicals Now
  25. Range Restriction: Why Generalizing From Your Social Group Is Harder Than You Think
  26. What's in a (Black) Name?
  27. Beware the Man of Many Studies
  28. Ranking Fields by p-Value Suspiciousness
  29. Mensa: The Above Average IQ Society
  30. Variance Explained is Usually Misinterpreted
  31. Fertility in an Ideal World
  32. Everyone Agrees: Let's Put Genetics to Work
  33. No, Penises Haven't Gotten Longer
  34. Who Gets Exposed to Lead?
  35. Inquisitive Bird's Danish Age-Crime Plots
  36. Age, Crime, and their Weakening Link
  37. Brief Data Post
  38. Income and IQ - Finnish Data
  39. COVID Vaccines and Arrhythmia?
  40. Brief Data Post
  41. What Does Nick Bostrom Think?
  42. Lying for a Climate Crusade

2022 2

  1. Black Economic Progress After Slavery
  2. Coming soon