This ‘Dear Kitten’ Video Will Rub You The Right Way ;-)
28 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in cats, economics Tags: kittens
Myth: no studies compare the health of unvaccinated and vaccinated people
28 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
I’ve heard this claim several times. Ever since I found out that it is not true, I have been amazed how it just keeps resurfacing. I would like to put this myth to rest. I am aware of at least seven original research papers and one meta-analysis (looking at another 6 randomised clinical trials or RCTs) published since 2009 which look at myriad aspects of general health, comparing large unvaccinated and vaccinated populations. I will lay them out below, but to put it shortly: vaccinated people are as healthy or healthier in all aspects compared to the unvaccinated. The vaccinated populations studied have less vaccine preventable diseases (may seem obvious, but nevertheless needs to be mentioned), less asthma, less heart attacks, better birth outcomes, and higher cognitive scores than their unvaccinated counterparts.
For an easy list of sources, see the bottom of this post
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The Illusions of Green Energy
28 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
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The best places for wind turbines have already been used. To supply the United States with energy from wind power would take a wind farm the size of Texas with densely sited turbines, but there’s not windy places for the turbines everywhere. A turbine requires wind blowing at a certain speed to produce power. If it blows too hard, the turbines have to shut down for they could be damaged. If it blows too gently, they do not produce energy at all , the backup power station which has been running all the time has to take over the production of energy.
I frequently say that the great fault of wind power is that wind is too intermittent. It just doesn’t blow at a steady strength at all, but you have been out in the wind, and you know that.
Here is a graph of electricity production as a percent…
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Michael Mann loses another fake Nobel prize
28 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
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Yesterday, I learned that Youngstown State University had made the following claim about hokey stick inventor Michael Mann.
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The stickiest price in the world?
28 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, job search and matching, macroeconomics Tags: search and matching, sticky prices
The stickiest price in the world? Coin-operated laundry, which reprices every 79.9 months. klenow.com/StickyPrices.p… http://t.co/tBP0JwlErZ—
JP Koning (@jp_koning) September 19, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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