RT if you think this summarises the Anti-Science Left
15 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left, conjecture and refutation, expressive voting, Green Left, progressive left, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
What is in the homoeopathic flu pills
15 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: homoeopathy, quackery
The odds that a child will…
14 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, child mortality, The Great Escape, vaccinations
Trends in DNA Sequencing Costs
14 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, health economics Tags: creative destruction, innovation, Moore's law, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape

via DNA Sequencing Costs.
The decline of homeopathy on the NHS – The Nightingale Collaboration
13 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: homoeopathy, National Health Service, quackery
Even though homeopathy is to some extent tolerated within the NHS and despite there being three homeopathic ‘hospitals’, it is clear that it is in decline. We know that these hospitals have been branching out into other areas and have even been re-branding themselves to move away from their reliance on homeopathy.
But just because it’s been a part of the NHS since 1948 does not mean that homeopathy is endorsed by the NHS or the Government as being an effective treatment.

via The decline of homeopathy on the NHS – The Nightingale Collaboration.
The limits of the human body
12 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in health and safety, health economics Tags: health and safety
This week in pseudoscience
12 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science, pseudoscience, quackery
Does everything give you cancer?
12 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: Bayesian statistics, Bayesian updating, conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science, robustness testing
We might be at the right level of smoking regulation « Adam Smith Institute
11 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of smoking
The average number of drinks men and women have at every age, charted – The Washington Post
11 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: alcoholics, binge drinking
Ample Proof That Cell Phone Towers DO NOT Cause Cancer
06 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Anti-Science left, Greens, Quacks
Tin foil hat brigade has a recruit in New Zealand. Thousands more cellphone antennas could be installed without community consultation under a proposed environmental rule change.
Green Party environment spokeswoman Julie Anne Genter said the Government appeared to have little regard for environmental outcomes or community input.
“We support National Environmental Standards but they need to be used to protect the environment, not to override the right of local communities to have a say,” she said.
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