
Big Organic and Big Placebo
21 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics Tags: alternative medicine, antiscience left, homeopathy, McAree, organic farming, Quacks
The Great Escape is still happening in rich countries
21 May 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
The economic basis of the Anti-science Left
18 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, health economics Tags: antiscience left, charlatan, conjecture and refutation, pseudoscience, quackery, Quacks, richer is safer, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, wealthier is healthier
% change for each OECD nation in PPP health care spending since 2000
18 May 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: Health spending
The Great Escape – heart disease, cancer and strokes
17 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Escape
The declining lethality of heart disease, cancer, & stroke (USA, last 50 years) nyti.ms/18kOMys http://t.co/DAyhYACLWD—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) May 16, 2015
Behind on my anti-vaccination movement blogging
17 May 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, conjecture and refutation, vaccinations, vaccines
Leading causes of death in Africa
17 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Escape
Are there only three stages of truth?
16 May 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, health economics, history of economic thought Tags: conjecture and refutation, history of science
Offsetting behaviour: smoking and obesity
16 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics Tags: economics of obesity, economics of smoking, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
US life-expectancy finding: Rise in obesity has nearly offset the decline in smoking nber.org/aginghealth/20… http://t.co/VJ2zvvSisv—
Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) May 15, 2015
Health spending has been slow for a few years now
15 May 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: public health expenditure, welfare state
Homeopathy explained
14 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, health economics Tags: homeopthay, Quacks
Radiation from nuclear power in perspective
14 May 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, health and safety, health economics Tags: atomic energy
xkcd's Radiation Dose Chart that puts the risks of #Nuclear energy in perspective. http://t.co/arhQqSxCZc—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) May 10, 2015




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