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Remembering the good old days before vaccines
09 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, cranks, Luddites, polio, vaccinations, vaccines
#GMO the most regulated & tested product in agricultural history
08 Oct 2016 1 Comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics Tags: antiscience left, cranks, GMOs, New Zealand Greens
While most African farms are organic @OxfamNZ @GreenpeaceNZ @SteffanBrowning
06 Oct 2016 3 Comments
in development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, environmentalism, growth disasters, health economics
We Should Not Be Subjecting Children’s Brains To Wi-Fi Screens @drjillstein
04 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
The “natural” label on your food is baloney
29 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of information, health economics Tags: consumer fraud
A guide to spotting bad science
26 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, environmental economics, health economics Tags: Age of Enlightenment, Anti-Science left, conjecture and reputation
The growing resistance of microbes to antibiotics
24 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
A business proposal: spend billions of dollars of your own money developing a new antibiotic but then do not put it on the market. You must hold it in reserve for those cases where all the others do not work.

How to detox your body the natural way
22 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: cranks, natural medicines



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