More than 16,100 predatory academic journals now flood the scientific literature with unverified research. When these ghost publications get cited in systematic reviews and meta-analyses, they corrupt the very foundation of evidence-based knowledge.
Ethics & Accountability OpinionPublic trust in credentialed experts collapsed 31 percentage points during the pandemic. The problem is not expertise itself, but a system that treats credentials as gatekeeping tools rather than competence signals.
Ethics & Accountability OpinionWhen 78% of Americans distrust the federal government, conspiracy theories stop being fringe and start looking rational. New research reveals the three unmet psychological needs that drive millions to reject official narratives.
Ethics & Accountability OpinionResearch into whistleblower retaliation psychology reveals a grim pattern: institutions don't just fail to protect truth-tellers, they actively deploy coordinated strategies to neutralize them, from psychiatric labeling to social isolation.
Ethics & Accountability OpinionPurdue Pharma's executives knew OxyContin was addictive. They marketed it as safe anyway. The FDA approved unproven claims and hired captured advisors. This was not a tragedy that befell America; it was one that was manufactured.
Ethics & Accountability OpinionNobody agrees on what consciousness is. After 2,500 years of trying, the definition still assumes only humans have it, and the evidence keeps proving that assumption wrong.
Ethics & Accountability OpinionThree esoteric believers will all say they believe in magic. Separate them and ask for details, and you get three incompatible belief systems held together by undefined terms and the false consensus effect.
Ethics & Accountability OpinionIf morality comes from God, and God is a subject, then God-based morality is subjective by definition. The Euthyphro dilemma is only the beginning.
Ethics & Accountability OpinionTheology has spent centuries building the case for God. Five arguments remain standing. Here is each one at its strongest, and why none of them survive scrutiny.
Ethics & Accountability OpinionJeffrey Dahmer was baptized six months before his murder. If the doctrine of grace means what it says, that is all it takes. The implications are uncomfortable by design.
Ethics & Accountability OpinionThe last Frankfurt School philosopher died at 96. His theory of rational democratic deliberation now reads as an obituary for something the algorithms have made structurally unreachable.
Ethics & Accountability OpinionThe genophage reduces Krogan births to replacement level, not extinction. The game wants you to cure it anyway. The math says that is the wrong call.
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