- The downside of virtue signaling: When you drive your electric car, you might say a prayer of thanks to the women and children — many killed or maimed while under the orders of armed guards – who mine by hand the cobalt in the Congo that makes your car possible. (WSJ)
- Why has the FDA been conducting a war on Ivermectin and the doctors who prescribe it?
- People who have Prader-Willi syndrome over eat to the point of severe obesity because their brains never signal a feeling of being full. (WSJ)
- Why did the government promote Pfizer’s and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines at the expense of J&J’s shot, which provides more durable immunity? (WSJ)
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Friday Links
- Florida now has more jobs than New York. That’s likely because Florida avoided the NY lockdown approach to the pandemic.
- Mainly because of health care commitments, the federal government will exhaust its ability to borrow in the next 25 to 50 years. Technical paper here.
- The case for ending the Covid emergency now.
- If Social Security makes a mistake and overpays you, they can come after you to reclaim the money – no matter how much or how long ago the mistake occurred. But if you make a mistake in not claiming all the SS or Medicare benefits you are entitled to, you generally can’t correct your mistake — even if it is caused by bad advice from government personnel. See Robbery by Red Tape.
- This is priceless: After asking a question and getting a dumb answer, the user re-prompted GPT with “how would a super-smart AI answer this question?” He then got a smart answer.
- Cato study: Obamacare increased low‐hours, involuntary parttime employment by 500,000 to 1 million workers, in retail, accommodations, and food services.
New from Heritage
- Moffett: Britain’s new prime minister refuses to say whether he relies on private care or the National Health Service.
- Badger: The way the No Surprise (for doctor billings) Act is panning out is not what we signed on for.
- Moffett and Badger: what the government did wrong in response to the Covid pandemic; what it should have done.
- Moffett: Why can’t Dr. Fauci and the CDC get their stories straight on whether masking is effective?
Wednesday Links
- The human circulatory system is 60,000 miles long.
- While waiting for government price negotiations to begin, Pfizer Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. have raised prices on nearly 1,000 products so far this year.
- Matt Holt discovers that he pays more for drugs than his insurer does – just like Medicare enrollees. Too bad he didn’t do more to help stop the congressional Democrats from rescinding the Trump executive order that would have ended this practice—at least for Medicare.
- Are politicians playing doctor on marijuana, or are they just getting big brother out of the way?
- JAMA: AI can’t be included as a coauthor on published articles.