On appeals to emotion
11 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters, health economics, liberalism, resource economics Tags: activists, bootleggers and baptists, climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, green rent seeking, peak oil, population bomb, precautionary principle
More on the horrors of DHMO
11 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: antiscience left, DHMO, precautionary principle, risk risk trade-offs
The good old days were pretty grim
10 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Escape
The history of medicine
10 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, life expectancy, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Do vaccines work?
09 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, vaccinations, vaccines
The challenges of living in zero gravity in space
08 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health and safety, health economics, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: space, zero gravity
What are the risks of the measles vaccine?
08 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: measles, trade-offs, vaccines
Causes of death 1900 and 2010
08 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: causes of death, life expectancy, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
How we die: Comparing the causes of death in 1900 vs. 2010. #health #dataviz http://t.co/sDbCaJpXGU—
Randy Olson (@randal_olson) March 31, 2015
The Great Escape compared to the threat of global warming
08 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic growth, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, population economics, technological progress Tags: climate alarmism, global warming, The Great Escape
Anti-GMOs translator
07 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: GMOs
Creative destruction and flying saucers
06 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: cell phones, creative destruction, UFOs
The obesity rates by occupation are surprising
06 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health and safety, health economics, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: compensating differentials, economics of obesity, obesity rates
Obesity by Occupation: In US police, firefighters, & security lead the pack. #dataviz
Source: wsj.com/articles/memo-… http://t.co/fPyQGKIUMk—
Randy Olson (@randal_olson) December 18, 2014
Small children are on to something when they don’t want to eat their vegetables
06 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: food poisoning
Fruits and vegetables poison more Americans than beef and chicken: vox.com/2015/3/6/81582… #dataviz http://t.co/brCnBjx2YL—
Randy Olson (@randal_olson) March 11, 2015

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