It’s not that I believe in any Gilded Age of Journalism, when reporters were universally analytical and informative, but there is little doubt in my mind that mainstream news services have deteriorated over the last two decades to a level that can best be described as contemptuous of its readers. The most egregious examples seem [...]

Via Jerry Coyne: a delightful paper arguing that depression is an evolutionary adaptation. I was so enamored of the argument that I applied it to another medicalised and unfairly demonised condition: heart disease. Heart disease seems to pose an evolutionary paradox. Research in the US and other Western countries estimates that between 30 to 50 [...]