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.
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.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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