As a longtime critic of the FDA, you might expect me to support firing FDA employees—not so! My focus has always been on reducing approval time and costs to speed drugs to patients and increase the number of new drugs. Cutting staff is more likely to slow approvals and raise costs. To be fair, we’re […]
Hire Don’t Fire at the FDA
Hire Don’t Fire at the FDA
26 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, drug lags
BP To Abandon Green Targets
25 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
By Paul Homewood From the Telegraph:
BP To Abandon Green Targets
RODNEY HIDE: My Presentation the School Principal Did Not Want the Board to Hear
25 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
The post below is in text or can be viewed as two video clips. You may find the content confronting but as Rodney says it is, ” … representative of the 196 page Navigating the Journey for Year 9s.” Sex Ed in New Zealand schools hypersexualises kids and further confuses them in their identity and…
RODNEY HIDE: My Presentation the School Principal Did Not Want the Board to Hear
Tinned Snoek: Britain’s Most Disliked Ration of the Second World War
25 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, health economics, war and peace Tags: rationing, World War II
Trade
25 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history Tags: age of empires, economics of colonialism
Gender gap
25 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Galaxy Quest (2/9) Movie CLIP – Signing Autographs and Meeting Aliens (1…
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The fundamental fallacy of the “sex spectrum”
24 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, conjecture and refutation, free speech, gender gap, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
While thinking about about objections to the sex binary—usually discussed in humans but sometimes in other species—they all seem to come down to a single assertion: “Sex is complicated in both development and expression, involving chromosomes, behavior, hormones, genitals and even psychology. Therefore there are more than two sexes.” One example of this is from […]
The fundamental fallacy of the “sex spectrum”
The Great Escape
24 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, The Great Escape, vaccines
Maps again
24 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of education Tags: China, economics of languages
Should they be returned?
24 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, war and peace Tags: economics of borders, maps, Nazi Germany, World War I, World War II
Why do the media ignore far worse behaviour from the left?
23 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: regressive left
The Herald reports: Green MP Ricardo Menéndez March says Prime Minister Christopher Luxon needs to step in after NZ First leader Winston Peters made allegedly “xenophobic” comments about him. Act leader David Seymour has come to the Green MP’s defence, saying “we’ve got to stop obsessing over when people arrive” in New Zealand. But Luxon has this…
Why do the media ignore far worse behaviour from the left?
New German Law Mandates Energy Consumption Cuts
23 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: Germany
By Paul Homewood We have just escaped the Climate and Nature Bill by the skin of the teeth, but it seems the Germans have not been so lucky. Benny Peiser sent me an essay (translated) by Robert von Loewenstern, which tells about a new law, the “Energy Efficiency Act”, which was passed in 2023. […]
New German Law Mandates Energy Consumption Cuts
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