How the Antiscience Left approaches inconvenient evidence
06 May 2015 1 Comment
in environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, GMOs, precautionary principle, Twitter left, University of the Internet
The steady decline of smoking
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics, health economics Tags: economics of smoking
#Cigarette #smoking is so 1970! (Want to see more graphics like this? Follow @MaxCRoser.) ow.ly/M4kvK http://t.co/VMfzc4QwOP—
Peter Ubel (@peterubel) April 24, 2015
Palm Reading explained
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: Palm Reading, quackery
Did vaccines work in India?
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, India, The Great Escape, vaccinations, vaccines
Organic farming versus world hunger
04 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, extreme poverty, global poverty, world under
Peaches after 6000 in years of genetic modification
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, health economics Tags: agricultural economics, Anti-Science left, GMOs, Leftover Left, quackery
Creative destruction in tobacco
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, health economics Tags: creative destruction, economics of smoking, entrepreneurial alertness
Per capita consumption of #tobacco in the United States via @USGA & @voxdotcom: plot.ly/~Dreamshot/1999 http://t.co/W5J1D2iJQN—
plotly (@plotlygraphs) April 21, 2015
The Great Escape in one chart
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
#Dailychart: In almost every country, mortality rates fell during the four decades to 2010 econ.st/XUYuSn http://t.co/kTg4oyQPRY—
The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) September 23, 2014
How infectious is measles?
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, measles, network economics, vaccines
A Measles patient infects 12-18 other people.
An Ebola patient infects 1-2.5 other people. http://t.co/iQS0c6vxYz—
Amitabh Chandra (@amitabhchandra2) April 24, 2015
The role of entrepreneurial alertness in sifting out quackery
30 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, health economics Tags: charlatans, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, market selection, quackery
Did the polio vaccine work?
30 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, polio, vaccines
Apparently somebody died from smoking cannabis in Bournemouth
29 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of smoking, marijuana decriminalisation, medical marijuana decriminalisation
The drugs that are far more deadly than cannabis i100.io/MsJDhBc http://t.co/2rrzpW7Ixe—
i100 (@thei100) February 05, 2015
Her name was Gemma Moss.



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