Thursday Links

“We find that a ten percent increase in the proportion of county residents with access to broadband internet leads to a 1.01 percent reduction in the number of suicides in a county, as well as improvements in self-reported mental and physical health.”

Does our personality determine our political ideology? (HT: Tyler)

Linus Pauling was wrong about vitamin C. But he was less wrong than some other bad nutritional advice.

Why brain dead people may not actually be dead.

While physician costs for overhead, medical equipment and supplies, as well as administrative staff, have soared, inflation-adjusted Medicare payments to physicians have dropped by over 25 percent over the past two decades. Commentary.

“The Office of the Inspector General found that Medicare and Medicaid spent over $18 billion in three years on drugs with accelerated approval but incomplete confirmatory clinical trials.”