How American men ceased to be the world's tallest, while the Dutch sprouted. randalolson.com/2014/06/23/why… http://t.co/IOmJCd8wuu—
Richard V. Reeves (@RichardvReeves) October 13, 2014
Who are the tallest?
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in economic history, health economics Tags: economics of physiology, The Great Escape
At the epidemic’s peak, AIDS affected…
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in development economics, growth disasters, health economics Tags: Africa, AIDS
At the epidemic's peak, AIDS affected half of people aged 15-49 in Middle Africa. Today? <20%. buff.ly/1EVz4Wo http://t.co/koHasDe2EX—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) May 10, 2015
An early film clip on the announcement of a successful polio vaccine
11 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: polio, vaccines
Americans and scientists agree more on vaccines than on other hot button issues
11 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, climate alarmism, global warming, vaccinations, vaccines
Americans and scientists agree more on vaccines than on other hot button issues. 53eig.ht/1CWsmPq http://t.co/M7eeDWgQoL—
(@FiveThirtyEight) February 07, 2015
The Ten Pillars of Economic Wisdom
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, health economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: David Anderson, evidence-based policy, offsetting behaviour, pretence to knowledge, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
via The Ten Pillars of Economic Wisdom, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty.
Coming to a nanny state near you
10 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics Tags: compassion Fascists, food police, health warnings, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, safety Nazis
The left has become it once mocked. They are all school marms now. http://t.co/2AgTfZ2ZuQ—
The Left, Exposed (@leftexposed) February 11, 2015
Organic farming is a rebranding of pre-industrial revolution agriculture
09 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, health economics, technological progress Tags: agricultural economics, consumer fraud, industrial revolution, organic farming, quackery, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
Product disclosure by medical quacks
07 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: alternative lifestyles, antiscience left, natural medicine, Quacks
Do vaccines work?
07 May 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, measles, vaccines
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
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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
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