Anti-science Left alert: Biotech and global warming
09 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, biotechnology, climate alarmism, GMOs, Quacks
Horoscopes, horoscopes and horoscopes
07 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: horoscopes, Quacks
Apparently, this is how the Mont Pelerin Society rules the roost!?
05 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: conspiracy theories, Leftover Left, Mont Pelerin Society, neoliberalism, nutters on the bus, Quacks, vast right-wing conspiracy
Solid lines refer to funding and dashed lines refer to mostly ideological connections
HT: old-rothschild-and-rockefeller-hands-controlled-the-libertarian-communist-dialectic/
B.S. meter – Respectful Insolence
28 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
Some quacks and con artists are a bit lazy in their promotional material
27 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: con artists, Quacks
It Took Studying 25,782,500 Kids To Begin To Undo The Damage Caused By 1 Doctor
23 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics, liberalism Tags: anti-vaccination movement, autism, Quacks, vaccination, vaccines
“It is entirely possible to rapidly switch our energy systems to 100 percent renewables” – Naomi Klein
09 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: carbon free economy, energy economics, expressive voting, green rent seeking, Leftover Left, Naomi Klein, Quacks, renewable energy
Jacobson and Delucchi think we can replace all coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear power by 2030 with wind, solar, and hydropower while fueling a fleet of electric cars.
How? By deploying 3.8 million 5-megawatt wind turbines, 5,350 100-megawatt geothermal plants, 500,000 1-megawatt tidal turbines, 720,000 0.75-megawatt wave power generators, 1.7 billion 3-kilowatt rooftop solar panels, 40,000 300-megawatt solar panel farms, and 49,000 300-megawatt concentrated solar power plants.
| Annual global investment target | Current global stock |
| 250,000 wind turbines | 225,000 wind turbines |
| 113 million rooftop solar panel systems | 11.3 million |
Delucchi and Jacobson estimate a price tag of about $100 trillion for their program.
That entails spending about $6.6 trillion per year from now until 2030, more than 11 percent of the entire world’s 2013 output of $75 trillion.
Naomi Klein cited Jacobson and Delucchi to support her proposition that 100% renewable energy systems is possible.
John Armstrong: Seances and crackpot ramblings belong in Greens’ mystical past
01 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: anti-vaccination movement, Quacks
Not so long ago, any Green MP who suggested sipping camomile tea or some other herbal concoction to ward off the horrific Ebola virus would surely have been deemed by his or her colleagues to be guilty – but only of being eccentric.
There used to be a lot of it about. Who can forget the senior party official who marked the opening session of one Green Party conference by lighting a large candle in recognition of any spirits that might have been present or invoke any that delegates wished to be present. (Sadly, the candle had to be extinguished soon after this mind-boggling seance. It fell foul of more earthly and more mundane forces – namely health and safety regulations.)
Anti-Science Left alert: food labelling and natural food
01 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, food labelling, green rent seeking, Quacks
Homeopaths offer services ‘to help fight’ Ebola epidemic in west Africa | The Guardian
31 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Ebola, Quacks
On their website, Van der Zee now urges supporters of homeopathy to sign the Change.org petition started in Australia, calling on WHO “to test and distribute homeopathy as quickly as possible to contain the outbreaks”.
Among the signatories is Steffan Browning, a Green Party MP in New Zealand.
He was publicly dismissed by the prime minister John Key as “barking mad”.
“Let’s be honest, this is a serious global issue, and if he really thinks that’s the answer I’d love to see the medical research,” said Key.
Browning admitted “it was probably a bit unwise” to sign the petition, which he also shared on his Facebook page encouraging other people to sign it. He said he had signed it “pretty late at night”, although he hoped WHO would keep an open mind on potential treatment options, since there was currently no cure.
New Zealand’s health minister, Jonathan Coleman, however, said treating Ebola patients with homeopathic remedies was “a wacko idea”, adding: “I don’t know what he’s thinking, it’s very, very dangerous. I think he really needs to engage his brain, it’s a really and stupid dangerous idea.”
via Homeopaths offer services ‘to help fight’ Ebola epidemic in west Africa | World news | The Guardian.
Homeopathic A and E
30 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics, liberalism Tags: Quacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0#t=21
HT: Sane Bob
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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