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
High school seniors are drinking less, smoking less, and barely using cocaine
22 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
The FDA is holding a public hearing today on regulating homeopathic remedies
21 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: homoeopathy, quackery
The world is vastly better and more equal in terms of health
21 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Do vaccines work?
20 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
How can anyone dispute benefits of vaccines? Number of cases & deaths from infectious diseases pre & post #vaccines http://t.co/Os3yPaCTx0—
Sunny Chan (@DrWaiSun) March 30, 2015
Helicopter parents alert: There’s never been a safer time to be a kid
20 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of media and culture, health and safety, health economics Tags: accident rates, capitalism and freedom, child rearing, economics of the family, health and safety, Helicopter parents, moral panic, The Great Escape
Changes in life expectancy by income
18 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
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
Recent Comments