Alice Dreger
Historian, sex researcher, and writer
Alice Dreger is an historian of medicine and science, a sex researcher, an award-winning writer, and an (im)patient advocate. Dreger’s latest major work is Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science.
#4: What makes someone gay? Science is trying to get it straight. | Top 10 2019
Taking the fourth spot on Big Think's 2019 top 10 countdown is the question: Evolutionarily speaking, is being gay still something of an enigma?
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Opinion journalism keeps the lights on. But at what cost?
Opinion is more compelling than fact. That's tearing society apart.
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What makes someone gay? Science is trying to get it straight.
Evolutionarily speaking, being gay is still something of an enigma
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This is how we end hyper-partisan politics
Want to empower social change? Break bread, literally, with the so-called enemy.
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Why whistleblowing is the loneliest and most courageous act in the world
'Whose job is it to fix the bad stuff in the world?' asks Alice Dreger.
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Safe spaces: Where should the line of censorship be drawn?
Are university safe spaces killing intellectual growth?
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Slactivism: The problem with moral outrage on the internet
Why virtue signaling does nothing.
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A short history of knowledge, from feudalism to the Internet
Crowdsourcing as an idea isn't anything new, says historian and sex researcher Alice Dreger. She tells us about the history of public gathering of information from the medieval era to today.
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