Saturday Links

Posted on by John C. Goodman

The Biden White House pressured Facebook and Instagram to censor Covid facts, including its origin.

Now we know: Scientists who signed a paper claiming a natural origin for Covid turn out not to have believed it themselves. (WSJ)

The real DeSantis record:  In 2020 Florida had the tenth lowest age-adjusted Covid death rate in the country, nearly 20% lower than California’s. (WSJ)

When did people stop being drunk all the time? From the Middle Ages to the pre-industrial era, the average person consumed about a liter of beer a day, around four times as much as consumption in modern beer-drinking countries. HT: Tyler

DEI training doesn’t work: 30 years of data from more than 800 U.S. companies show that mandatory diversity training programs have practically no effect on employee attitudes — and may even backfire.

An estimated 795 000 Americans become permanently disabled or die annually because dangerous diseases are misdiagnosed. Just 15 diseases account for about half of all serious harms. HT: Arnold Kling

2 thoughts on “Saturday Links”

  1. “When did people stop being drunk all the time?”

    I would like to see these charts overlaid with the growing availability of clean drinking water.

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  2. Beer consumption may have been higher when people didn’t live long enough to have to deal with BPH and gout.

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