More food-stamp money is spent on soda and sweets than fruits, vegetables, eggs, pasta, beans and rice combined, according to a report by the Foundation for Government Accountability.
NYT: Trump Halts NIH Research Funding of the Effects of Climate Change on Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it will stop funding research on the health effects of climate change. This was a blow to researchers who had hoped to enrich themselves while engaged in activism aligned with partisan research.
Monday Links
- “While life expectancies around the world have generally been rising, Russia’s life expectancies have not risen for about a half-century.”
- Do higher fertility rates produce higher economic growth?
- AAF: “We know tariffs on pharmaceuticals are bad.”
- Trump think tank: tariffs can lower drug prices.
- Covid study: vaccinated 6x more likely to be hospitalized than unvaxxed.
- ChatGPT’s o3 scores 136 on the Norway Mensa IQ test.
Saturday Links – 19 April 2025
- The case against most favored nation drug pricing.
- Study: “Our findings reveal that large minimum wage increases in the 2010s reduced employment among people with severe disabilities.”
- RFK, Jr: rise in autism rates are due to” environmental toxins,” in food and medicine and not “artifacts of better diagnoses, better recognition, or changing diagnostic criteria.”
- Speculation on why there has been an increase in ADHD diagnoses.
- Traditional Medicare’s expenditures for remote physiological monitoring medicine have increased, from $6.8 million in 2019 to $194.5 million in 2023.
- The Trump plan for lower drug prices.
- The case for ivermectin.