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Science & Health

The fast lane to a renewable energy future

An academic living in cold Canberra retired his gas heaters a few years ago and installed electric heat pumps for ...
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Science & Health

When AI audits the scholarly record, what will happen to public trust in science?

Self-correction is fundamental to science. One of its most important forms is peer review, when anonymous experts scrutinise research before it ...
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Law & Politics

Tackling antisemitism can’t be at the expense of a free and open society

At the heart of the Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism recently released by Jillian Segal, Australia’s Special Envoy to ...
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Letters to the Editor

End the government funding of faith workers

Editor’s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our Publishing ...
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Law & Politics

Democracy and the legitimacy of political power

Imagine that one day your neighbour knocks on your door and proceeds to tell you what to do. They might ...
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Science & Health

Why the British accepted evolutionary science and Americans didn’t

One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state’s schools can ...
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