- People have a hard time worrying about more than one thing at a time. E.g., Covid worries tend to crowd out climate change worries.
- Do congressional committee members interrupt female witnesses more than male witnesses?
- Reasons to think Covid did not have an animal origin.
- Why haven’t we found a cure for Alzheimer’s?
- Can oxygen be a substitute for antibiotics?
- How The Woman King got history wrong and why that’s controversial.
- Tyler Cowen reviews new book on insurance by Amy Finkelstein, et. al.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Friday Links
- Will a Republican House of Representatives impeach Joe Biden?
- For missile defense. HT: Tyler
- How China could take Taiwan – beginning with a blockade – and get into a war with the US?
- The average cost of family coverage in employer plans: $22,463.
- Gender affirming care: In 2021, around 42,000 kids between 6 and 17 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria. At most, around 7,000 a year initiate some kind of potentially irreversible process. This comes out to about 1 in 7,000 kids.
- As many as 43,000 American die every year because they can’t find a kidney donor. One reason: in 1984 Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act, which banned the sale of organs.
- Bill Barr: 1% of the population commits between one-half and two-thirds of predatory violent crime. (WSJ)
Is Period Regulation Really a Health Issue?
Hormonal contraception created the ability for women to delay or go months without having their menstrual period. This was initially thought to be detrimental to women’s health but was later decided it made no difference and became a selling point for certain brands of contraceptives. Nowadays there is a different type of pill intended to regulate menstrual bleeding. However, in this case it’s designed to bring about the onset of menstruation rather than delay it and the drugs are the same pills used in chemical abortions.
Wednesday Links – 26 October 2022
- John Cochrane on Liz Truss: She had good ideas, but mismanaged the marketing and the politics.
- Politicizing science: The leading journal Nature Human Behaviour has effectively announced that it will not publish studies that show the wrong kind of differences between human groups.
- Medicare Advantage Star Ratings: Are too many plans above average?
- Lessons from the lockdown: Charter schools and Catholic schools did better than public schools. (WSJ)
- Between December 2020 and mid-May 2022, the U.S. wasted 82.1 million doses of Covid vaccine. (WSJ)