- Top 10 flaws in mainstream reporting of the seed oil debate.
- Should Biden give Fauci a prophylactic Presidential pardon.
- Cato event: Can GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy be used to prevent substance abuse?
- Remember Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb? Over the past 60 years, humanity’s farmers went from feeding three billion people to feeding eight billion.
- In 2024, more than half of all jobs added were paid for with taxpayer dollars.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Vaccination Rates are Falling, Which Could Lead to Outbreaks of Long Conquered Diseases
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) vaccination is among the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th Century. Here is the problem: many people have stopped getting vaccinated.
Saturday Links
- What made the California fires worse: environmental protection for the smelt.
- Jimmy Carter’s boldest deregulation idea never happened.
- Lessons from all the past efforts to cut wasteful government spending.
- There is no relationship between climate change and wildfires.
- How long we live is 25% determined by our genes and 75% determined by lifestyle and environment. (NYT)
- Claim: breastfeeding could save 800,000 child lives a year.
- The virtual cell: “Scientists are now designing computer programs that may unlock the ability to simulate human cells, giving researchers the ability to predict the effect of a drug, mutation, virus, or any other change in the body, and in turn making physical experiments more targeted and likelier to succeed.”
Friday Links
- Medical debt no longer to appear on credit reports.
- Bad news: FDA threatens drug companies over communicating the benefits of off label uses of drugs.
- Correcting 3 myths about thalidomide:
- The FDA learned about the problems with thalidomide at the same time as the public.
- Far from being banished, thalidomide and some close variants are available and widely used today,
- Drugs today are no safer than they were in the thalidomide era.
- Why so many people hate health insurance companies.
- Why we need health insurance companies.
- Bidenomics: The White House values health gains resulting from the government’s climate regulations 10 times higher than identical improvements resulting from private sector medical innovation.
- A blow-by-blow description of how the 5 presidents interacted at the Carter funeral.