Philosopher and Science Writer

Nathan Cofnas

2 articles 2017

Nathan Cofnas is a philosopher and researcher who has written on science, academia, and political correctness. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2017, writing about scientific standards and the spread of politically correct corporate culture.

PC Corporate Culture Is a Plague That Government Helps Spread

August 24, 2017 · James Damore, Political Correctness, speech

Most people think that the 1st Amendment guarantees free speech. But the philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that free speech requires more than just the absence of legal strictures. The “tyranny of opinion” of the majority has the same effect as censorship enforced by law. When everyone lives…

Dadaist Science

July 13, 2017 · Today's Blogs, Conservative Newsstand, Magazine

Earlier this month Stephen Hawking declared: “We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump’s action [withdrawing from the Paris climate accord] could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees…