On a market for human organs
04 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: expressive voting, organ donation, rational irrationality, repellent markets
The iron law of prohibition
03 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics Tags: alcohol regulation, black markets, economics of prohibition, economics of smoking, marijuana decriminalisation, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretense the knowledge
2% are faceblind
02 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in administration, economics, health economics
2% of people suffer from this inability to recognise faces including Stephen Fry! I thought in his business you have to be able to spot faces.
I have the opposite syndrome of name deafness. Great at remembering faces but terrible at remembering names especially when put under pressure to remember them face-to-face.
The reason why I do not read novels is I cannot remember the names of the characters. But if I read a technical article I remember the names of the authors and people discussed in it.
.@GreenpeaceNZ picks & chooses its scientific consensus #GMOs #globalwarming
02 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: activists, agricultural economics, antimarket bias, climate alarmism, do gooders, expressive voting, GMOs, green rent seeking, Greenpeace, Twitter left
For a generation, a campaign by the green movement against the growing of genetically modified crops has held sway across Europe. These foodstuffs are a threat to health, the environment and the small independent farmer, NGOs have argued.
As result, virtually no GM crops have been grown on Europe’s farms for the past 25 years. Yet hard evidence to support what is, in all but name, a ban on these vilified forms of plant life is thin on the ground. In fact, most scientific reports have indicated that they are generally safe, both to humans and the environment.
This point was endorsed last week when a 20-strong committee of experts from the US National Academies of Science announced the results of its trawl of three decades of scientific studies for “persuasive evidence of adverse health effects directly attributable to consumption of foods derived from genetically engineered crops”. It found none.
Instead the group uncovered evidence that GM crops have the potential to bestow considerable health benefits. An example is provided by golden rice, a genetically modified rice that contains beta carotene, a source of vitamin A. Its use could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children who suffer from vitamin A deficiency in the third world, say scientists.
Source: The Observer view on the GM crops debate | Opinion | The Guardian
Scientists and governments around the world overwhelmingly agree that climate change is real, is largely human-induced and needs urgent action to prevent.
There is, in fact, a broad and overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, is caused in large part by human activities (such as burning fossil fuels), and if left un-checked will likely have disastrous consequences.
Furthermore, there is solid scientific evidence that we should act now on climate change – and this is reflected in the statements by these definitive scientific authorities.
@Greenpeace thugs vandalise golden rice trial in #Pinas
02 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, GMOs, Greenpeace, Philippines, terrorism
Terminally Ill Patients and the Right to Try
29 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, health economics Tags: drug lags, FDA, invisible graveyard
The West Wing: “In This White House” (2000)
28 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of media and culture, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: drug prices, intellectual monopolies, patents and copyrights
Breast cancer death rates in the USA, Australia and England and Wales since 1950
24 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: cancer rates, life expectancies, The Great Escape
Source: HumanProgress.org from International Agency for Research on Cancer, Updated 17 June, 2015.
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