Why are GMOs Bad? @SciShow
25 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, fisheries economics, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: anti-GMO movement, Anti-Science left, pessimism bias
The payoff from fighting #globalwarming
25 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Peterson/Haidt/Lukianoff: The Danger of Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Social Justice
25 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in gender Tags: political correctness
Debra Soh: Science doesn’t back up ‘Gender is a social construct’
25 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in gender Tags: political correctness
Manstein Makes a Plan and Hitler has a Man Crush – WW2 – 026 – February 23 1940
25 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
The “Green New Deal” Fraud
25 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
In this video, geologist and engineer Tony Heller reviews the Democrats’ Green New Deal – shows why it is both scientifically baseless and based on very irrational, dangerous thinking.
Andrew Sullivan’s weekly trifecta. Part 2: Transgenderism in athletics and sexual attraction
25 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
The second issue that Andrew Sullivan takes up in his New York Magazine column this week is that of transgender athletes and transphobia. The inspiration for his piece was the actions of Martina Navatilova, an openly gay ex-athlete who was a friend of the LGBTQ community. That is, until she recently declared that it was unfair in some instances for transwomen to compete in sports against biological women. That, as you know, is enough to brand someone as transphobic. The Guardian reports what happened to Navatilova:
The tennis player and gay rights campaigner first drew criticism from equalities activists and trans athletes when she tweeted in December: “You can’t just proclaim yourself a female and be able to compete against women. There must be some standards, and having a penis and competing as a woman would not fit that standard.”
Writing in the Sunday Times, Navratilova said she…
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The 3 Rules of Hate Speech: Free Speech Rules (Episode 2)
25 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech
Watch “Do Japanese Mix Up “L” and “R” When Speaking English?
25 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: economics of languages, Japan
John Earl Haynes – Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America
24 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: Cold War
Why man and women play separate sports: bugger all women are 6 foot tall; 3% of women are taller than the average man, and 6% of men are shorter than the average woman.
24 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in gender, health economics, sports economics Tags: political correctness
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