This crazy chart shows America's most obese career: Policeman. Can you guess the least obese? http://t.co/gncrvTzL2B http://t.co/T2zTzHaZE2
— Dennis K. Berman (@dkberman) December 17, 2014
Obesity by occupation
19 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in health and safety, health economics, labour supply, occupational choice, personnel economics Tags: compensating differentials, obesity
Reasons for admission to an asylum in the 1800s that reads like a list of heavy metal band names
19 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
A day not spent bashing the anti-vaccination movement is a day wasted
19 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, Quacks, vaccinations, vaccines
Behind in my bashing of organic farming – truth in advertising need not apply
18 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: consumer fraud, organic farming, Quacks, truth in advertising
I am reconsidering my position on 100% natural and organic
18 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in energy economics, health economics, liberalism
A quick guide for the anti-science Left on GMO product labelling
18 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, GMOs
On the effectiveness of homoeopathic medication
15 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: Quacks
Smallpox was eradicated not that long ago by vaccines
14 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, smallpox, The Great Escape, vaccinations, vaccines
First World "privilege"
13 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: Andy vaccinations movement, The Great Escape, vaccinations, vaccines
Darwin Awards ‘winners’ are overwhelmingly male, analysis reveals
13 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics, liberalism, population economics, technological progress Tags: Darwin awards
- Darwin Awards is an annual review of most foolish way people have died
- Nominees improve the gene pool by eliminating themselves from the human race using foolish methods
- Scientists were surprised to discover 90% of award ‘winners’ were male
- Worthy candidates include a terrorist who opened his own letter bomb
- Another man attempted to travel by hitching a shopping trolley to a train
According to “male idiot theory” (MIT) many of the differences in risk seeking behaviour, emergency department admissions, and mortality may be explained by the observation that men are idiots and idiots do stupid things…
In addition, alcohol may play an important part in many of the events leading to a Darwin Award. It is conceivable that the sex difference is attributable to sociobehavioural differences in alcohol use.
Anecdotal data support the hypothesis that alcohol makes men feel “bulletproof” after a few drinks, and it would be naïve to rule this out.
For example, the three men who played a variation on Russian roulette alternately taking shots of alcohol and then stamping on an unexploded Cambodian land mine.
HT: dailymail.co.uk and The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour | The BMJ.
Nurses against vaccines!
13 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics, occupational choice Tags: anti-vaccination movement, vaccinations, vaccines
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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