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.
Disability benefit applications are counter cyclical and unaffected by improving health standards and rising life expectancy
29 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health and safety, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, welfare reform Tags: disability benefits
What does marathon running do to the body?
27 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: marathons
Apparently, e-cigarettes are safer
27 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: creative destruction, economics of smoking, risk wrist trade-offs
How measles spreads when there are no vaccinations
27 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, vaccinations, vaccines
The differently shaded squares represent four generations of infection, from Patient Zero (the darkest red square at the top left) to the people he or she infects (the next 17 reddish squares), the people they infect in turn (the next five lines of peach-colored squares), and the people they infect (the rest of the graphic). The dark squares represent the people who die from measles.
Without vaccinations, each measles case will infect 12 to 18 other people on average every 10 to 14 days. You can see how quickly the disease spreads from the first generation (Patient Zero) to 12 to 18 people in the second generation, 144-324 people in the third generation, and 1728-5832 people in the fourth generation. That adds up to more than 6,000 infections, all within 40 days. In a country with substandard healthcare and malnutrition, up to 28 percent of those infected will die.
via The incredible power of the measles vaccine, in 3 graphics – The Washington Post.
John Tyler (sworn in as president 1841) had two living grandsons in 2015
26 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: John Tyler, life expectancy, The Great Escape
A fantastic redeeming feature of homeopathy
26 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, health economics Tags: brand names, fisheries economics, homeopathy, organic agriculture, organic farming, product certification, quackery, Quacks
Organic certification is currently an issue in New Zealand at the behest of the Green Party:
Green Party spokesman for agriculture Steffan Browning has called on the Government to safeguard the value of the term "organic". For him, waiting until 2017 to look at the issue was "simply unacceptable".
Companies can become "certified organic", and by doing this it means they meet an agreed international standard during production, processing, and selling their products.
A certified organic company’s food is free of additives, and has not relied on chemicals during growth.
But certification isn’t compulsory – and there is no legal requirement for claims of uncertified organic produce to be genuine, Browning said.
via EU’s crazy homeopathy cure for Norway fish – The Local.
The one and the same Green Party spokesman Steffan Browning last year called for homeopathic remedies to be used against Ebola!
I wonder which manifestation of quackery will win out: Organic farming or homeopathy? It’ll be fun to watch with glee.
Moral panic compared: allergies versus vaccination
26 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics, law and economics Tags: Allergies, Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, cranks, Left-wing hypocrisy, meddlesome preferences, quackery, Quacks
On the relative effectiveness of public and private R&D in pharmaceuticals
24 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, health economics
Via Pharmaphobia – AEI.
An ode to the anti-vaccination movement
23 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, transport economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, seat belts
Herd immunity pie-charted
22 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, economics of networks, vaccinations, vaccines
Deliriously hot @guardian sim shows why anti-measles jabs help protect your whole community gu.com/p/45f7e/stw http://t.co/H31ZKbXkqg—
Info=Beautiful (@infobeautiful) February 05, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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