- What happens when whistleblowers reveal what appears to be medical malpractice associated with “gender affirming care”? The government goes after the whistleblowers.
- More on AI and rural health. (STAT)
- New NBER paper: “Our calculations indicate that currently proposed U.S. policies to reduce pharmaceutical prices, though particularly beneficial for low-income and elderly populations, could dramatically reduce firms’ investment in highly welfare-improving R&D.”
- Could quitting your job actually help the economy?
- Steuerle: “Never in U.S. history has there been so much growth in debt scheduled in current law from past legislation.”
- BMJ publication bias during covid: very one-sided and on the wrong side of history.
- Feds seek delay in releasing covid safety data.
- Do good-looking people live longer?
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
More on What Motivates Fauci
Both during AIDS and during Covid-19, Fauci and company fought the use of inexpensive, repurposed drugs to help people’s immune systems fight off the threats. [Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.] argues that they were motivated by a desire to bring pharmaceutical products to market—both antivirals and vaccines—without facing cheap competition, as a portion of Big Pharma’s profits would make their way into the public health officials’ pockets.
Quoted in a brief book review by David Henderson, who doesn’t necessarily agree with everything Kennedy has to say on the subject.
Saturday Links
- AEI endorses health system price controls. WHAT?
- Multiple agencies “misrepresented and deceived” lawmakers over experiments to swap genes between “more lethal” and “more transmissible” lineages of monkeypox.
- Money doesn’t buy happiness, but happy people are more successful.
- Why some people don’t get covid – even when exposed to it.
- Does spirituality affect health? (Speculative)
- Lawfare explained.
Friday Links
- CBO: Federal debt held by the public to reach 180% of GDP by mid century.
- One solution to the debt problem: faster economic growth.
- Dr. Steven Quay on the origins of covid: Testimony. Book: “This book is a shocking account of the extreme experiments, of the cover-ups and of the collusions that led to the outbreak of the worst pandemic since the 1918 Spanish influenza and broadens the censure to include the American and British scientists who thwarted a proper investigation of the origin of COVID-19.”
- Standing between rural residents and health care: certificate of need laws.
- Families matter: Odds of going to college and graduating from college vs. going to prison, based on the presence or absence of parents.
- South Africa’s public health care system has run out of the human insulin pens for diabetics, as the pharmaceutical industry shifts production priorities to weight-loss drugs.
- Nearly three years after the creation of a $42.5 billion federal program to bring high speed internet access to rural residents, not a single home or business has been connected and no project will break ground until sometime next year.