Stuart Nash MP signs @nzlabour up to anti-science left on #GMO
02 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: antiscience left, cranks, GMO, New Zealand Labour Party, quakes
Polio vaccine – thanks Dr. Jonas Salk for saving so many lives
27 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: polio, vaccination
The wages of sin catching up with the Vice Fund v. S&P 500
22 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
Source: VICEX USA Mutuals Barrier Investor Fund VICEX Quote Price News.
The Vice Fund is now known as the Barrier Fund because it extended out of sinful stocks into industries with high barriers to entry. Minimum Investment is $2,000.
The Barrier Fund primarily invests in the following industries: Aerospace/Defense, Gaming, Tobacco and Alcoholic Beverages. These four industries were chosen because they demonstrate one or more of these compelling and distinctive investment characteristics:
- Natural barriers to new competition
- Steady demand regardless of economic condition
- Global Marketplace – not limited to the U.S. economy
- Potentially high profit margins
- Ability to generate excess cash flow and pay and increase dividends
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That smug git @LouisTheroux played a blinder with his brain injury documentary
22 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in health economics, television Tags: brain injuries
Theroux spends a lot of his time visiting America as a smug pom whose dry sense of humour completely escapes the people he is sending up. His 2016 brain injury documentary was superb.
In a BBC2 documentary A Different Brain, Theroux visited residential patients in a brain injury unit. Many had completely changed personalities and through loss of inhibition, aggression and other impairments to their judgement were incapable of caring for themselves in the community.
One particular lady was totally friendly to anyone she met without any sense of wariness of strangers. When Theroux left that patient, he said to the doctor who was accompanying him quite rightly that unscrupulous people would take advantage of her the moment she left the brain injury facility. That hit the nail on the button as to why these people must stay in care.
Then he moved on to a particularly heart tugging session where a mother found that her son’s body was inhabited by a complete stranger. The brain injury are totally changed his personality and turned him into a completely different person but she stood by her son.
Another one of the patients he followed also had a major personality change and was rude to her family, so much so that they did not want want her to live with them. She had no awareness of her change in personality or the fact that she was infuriating her family with her behaviour. They try from time to time to bring her back into the home but it does not work.
Is Organic Food Worse For You?
16 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, health economics Tags: food snobs, organic food
Do Parents Matter? Q&A with Bryan Caplan, Author of Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
15 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
Stop buying organic food if you care about the planet
15 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: food snobs, organic food
Cocaine was freely available until the 1920s including in Coca-Cola
15 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of prohibition
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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