- Consuming half a tablespoon of olive oil every day is associated with a 28% lower risk of dying of dementia.
- Less than half of all workers plan to work past age 62.
- An argument for not giving free health care to illegals.
- Trump v. Biden on the response to Covid.
- Getting rich by doing good: The nonprofit University of Pittsburgh Medical Center CEO makes $12 million a year.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Moral Dilemmas in Medical Care
Many of the researchers responsible for the most notorious abuses in recent medical history — the Tuskegee syphilis study, the Willowbrook hepatitis studies, the Cincinnati radiation studies, the Holmesburg prison studies — were celebrated with professional accolades even after the abuses were first called out.
Source: Carl Elliott, New York Times
An AI Mental Health Chatbot Will See You Now (or Maybe Not)
Would you spill your failed hopes, unfulfilled dreams and mental health challenges to a robot? How about a mental health chatbot? That’s not as strange as it sounds. Reporter Shirley Wang at The Wall Street Journal debates the value of mental health chatbots that use artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
Saturday Links
- W & M: How the Trump tax cuts were good for the economy and why allowing some provisions to expire would be bad.
- How much would you pay per year to combat global warming? R: $134 D: $633 All: $371
- Percent who would pay nothing: R: 53% D: 17% All: 35%
- At a New York City fast food restaurant, the cashier is 8,000 miles away in the Philippines and costs $1 an hour.
- Over the last 13 months, more than 20 million people were disenrolled from Medicaid. So, what happened to the uninsured rate? It hasn’t budged. Explanations.
- Milei is succeeding in Argentina.