- Highest paying specialties: orthopedics and orthopedic surgery: $611,000, cardiology: $575,000, and radiology: $571,000.
- Why are 90% of people right-handed? (Forbes)
- Cigna leaves Obamacare. Only 2 of the last 12 years were profitable.
- David Friedman explains adverse selection.
- The ratio of national debt (held by the public) to GDP passed 100% for the first time since World War 2.
Category: John C. Goodman
Friday Links – 1 May 2026
- Surprise: If you overstated your income to qualify for (Obamacare) subsidies last year (they averaged just over $6,000 per person), you will now be required to pay them back.
- Study: Retirement accelerates cognitive decline. (HT: Tyler)
- Why fruit doesn’t taste like it used to,
- What can we learn about humans from the study of chimpanzee warfare?
- “Skinny labeling” occurs when generic companies seek regulatory approval to market a medicine for a specific use, but not other patented uses for which a brand-name drug is prescribed. (Statnews)
- Medicaid and SNAP lost nearly $50 billion to fraud last year.
AI and Bioweapons
“It was answering questions that I hadn’t thought to ask it, with this level of deviousness and cunning that I just found chilling,”
That night in the scientist’s home office, the chatbot explained how to modify an infamous pathogen in a lab so that it would resist known treatments.
Worse, the bot described in vivid detail how to release the superbug, identifying a security lapse in a large public transit system …. The bot outlined a plan to maximize casualties and minimize the chances of being caught.
Source: New York Times
Thursday Links – 30 April 2026
- Trump’s HUD: fair housing law should not prevent realtors from answering buyer questions about neighborhood safety and school quality.
- New York City: mediocre public-school education for $40,000 a student.
- Study: regulations are more business friendly in richer than in poorer countries.
- Study: DEI programs cost the economy $94 billion a year.
- Public schools cost 50% more than private schools.