- Claims of unfairness in the 2025 tax bill.
- The risks of CT and MRI scans.
- In a recent survey of more than 1,000 workers by insurance broker NFP, about 30% said they would switch jobs if that got them coverage for GLP-1 medications.
- Texas (not California) is the new capital of Fortune 500 companies.
- What would Hayekian literary criticism look like?
Category: Authors
Hits & Misses – 8 June 2026
Odd or Conflicting Research
- Psychology Today: Self-help can make you feel worse.
- STAT News: African Americans are dismissed from medical residency programs in numbers far greater than their proportion.
- New York Times: The sharp decline in fertility is due to the smartphone.
- Science Daily: Scientists say house cats could help unlock new cancer treatments for humans.
- Odd News: Men account for 83% of deaths within national parks.
Monday Links – 8 June 2026
- Jeff Singer: ”A 2024 meta-analysis in JAMA Pediatrics covering 143 studies and more than 1 million adolescents worldwide, found that the associations between social media use and mental health were small.”
- Crime fact of the day: US homicides have plummeted, domestic deaths have not. (WaPo)
- How a growing national debt hurts low-income families.
- Surprising fact: your fingers don’t have muscles.
- How to live to be 100: having the right genes help.
City Journal: Why Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Won’t Go Away
I have repeatedly wondered why the United States allows fraud and abuse in the health care system to flourish. Fraud is especially rampant in Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare is required to pay on a timely basis and often must chase down fraudulent transactions later. It’s called pay and chase. By contrast, a better system would flag suspicious transactions and stop payments or slow them until further investigation.