Are natural foods better if you are a anti-GM over activist?
16 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, health economics Tags: activists, GMOs, Left-wing hypocrisy, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
The reasons of supporters & opponents of marijuana legalisation
15 Apr 2015 1 Comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, liberalism Tags: expressive voting, marijuana decriminalisation, meddlesome preferences, medical marijuana decriminalisation, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, voter demographics
Here are top reasons supporters & opponents of marijuana legalization give for their views pewrsr.ch/1PIaYUC http://t.co/hoPaMMQBXr—
Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) April 15, 2015
These rationales of thoroughly utilitarian and can actually be resolved by appeals to evidence. But the real reasons are the meddlesome preferences of the opponents of legalisation and the desire of the supporters of legalisation to smoke dope.
#Anti-Prohibition #demonstration in #Newark, #NewJersey, #1932 buff.ly/1GAEIOX #wewantbeer #beer #prohibition http://t.co/7Yr2ZjzHeN—
(@Pixxcell) April 06, 2015
A guide to Green labelling of food
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, health economics Tags: advertising, product labelling
Cognitive biases of the anti-vaccination movement and the Antiscience Left
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, antiscience left, cognitive biases, cognitive psychology, conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science
Causes of death in the 20th century
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: Population demographics, The Great Escape
How toxic is it?
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left
The survivalist community have finally gone organic and renewable
14 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmentalism, health economics, politics - USA Tags: Big Wind, conspiracy theorists, organic farming, survivalists, wind power
For sale: luxury apocalypse-proof condos in a missile silo gu.com/p/4398h/tw via @guardiang2 @IAmTimDowling http://t.co/tH1B7M4lXT—
Guardian Visuals (@GraphicGuardian) November 13, 2014
What is the essence of alternative medicine
14 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: alternative medicine, quackery
Why wasn’t this study about health and the vegetarian lifestyle reported?
13 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, health economics Tags: antiscience left, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, vegans, vegetarians
As one of a great many who enjoy eating tasty animals, I’m surprised this story about how the vegetarian lifestyle is less healthy wasn’t widely reported:
According to the study, those who abstain from meat are “less healthy (in terms of cancer, allergies, and mental health disorders), have a lower quality of life, and also require more medical treatment.”
Vegetarians were twice as likely to have atopy (allergies), a 50 percent increase in cancer and a 50 percent increase in heart attacks. They also drank less alcohol.
This is not the first time counter-intuitive research has shown the negative effects of consuming a meat-free diet.
In 2010 the WHO published a study where 30,604 people were followed for an average of 8.7 years on their fruit and vegetable consumption. Those who consumed the recommended 5 pieces of fruit and vegetables a day did not have less cancer nor enjoyed better health. They were even forced to conclude the opposite.
“A very small inverse association between intake of total fruits and vegetables and cancer risk was observed in this study.”
This study even concluded that a “..growing body of epidemiological, clinical and experimental evidence suggesting that regular cheese intake may reduce the risk of cardiovascular outcomes.”
RT polio vaccine declared safe today 1955
13 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, polio, vaccines
2day 1955 Vaccine created by Jonas Salk against polio–scourge of the nation! is declared safe & effective! http://t.co/YgdJVEP3Il—
Hawkeye: JeSuisJuif (@inhuggermugger) April 13, 2015
In 1954, over 300,000 doctors, nurses, schoolteachers and other volunteers across the United States, Canada and Finland took part in one of the most complex and monumental medical trials in history.
The plan was to test the effectiveness of a newly-developed vaccine for a disease that was devastating the lives of children across the US: polio.
It was a mammoth task – a double-blind experiment, in which 650,000 schoolchildren were given the vaccine, 750,000 were given a placebo, and over 400,000 children acted as a control group and were given neither. For taking part, each participant was given a sweet and a certificate proclaiming their role as a‘Polio Pioneer’.
The results, announced in 1955, were just as monumental: the vaccine was safe and effective. As a direct result of the development of the vaccine, polio was completely eradicated in the US by 1979.
Global vaccination coverage
13 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: vaccinations, vaccines
Vaccination Coverage has improved in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
From: OurWorldInData.org/data/health/va… http://t.co/ec4wsFkz1m—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) April 06, 2015
How Ebola compares to other infectious diseases
13 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: Ebola
Visualised: how Ebola compares to other infectious diseases bit.ly/1sH3dDR http://t.co/vNadhO5NB6—
Guardian Data (@GuardianData) October 15, 2014
Measles cases reported in the USA since the introduction of the vaccine
12 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination, measles, vaccines
Measles cases reported in the United States. #dataviz
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meas… http://t.co/URmPU6AHeK—
Randy Olson (@randal_olson) January 25, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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