Friday Links

Study: there are no economic rewards for expedited discovery of new Part B cancer drugs.

In its 4.5-billion-year history, the Earth has experienced five mass extinction waves when more than 75 percent of the species on the planet were snuffed out. A nuclear winter could be the 6^th.

Tyler Cowen: the greatest danger to civilization is war, rather than intelligent robots.

Walensky on the CDC on Covid: “our performance did not reliably meet expectations.” That’s it?

Yglesias on leftist values. Recommended.

Can this be true? “Big pharma is betting on psychedelics for mental health.”