We build meaning with words and the definitions we understand them to have. It’s also hard to have a conversation with a limited set of words — if you want to express something but you don’t have a word for it, your explanation tends to be less precise, less streamlined.

There is perennial panic about overly ideological teaching in the arts and social sciences, often manifested in specific conservative backlash to otherwise quite innocuous academic theories.

Similarly to HIV/AIDS, conservative commentators are using monkeypox as a way to justify their homophobia.

You could be excused for thinking that we don’t need to worry about polio anymore. While some strains have been eradicated, there is still work to be done.

Artificially intelligent clinicians aren’t an inevitability, and nor should they be.