- Oregon has ended the legalization of hard drugs. WaPo (Essentially anything besides marijuana.)
- No one wants to be a teacher anymore.
- Gender dysphoria in children is temporary – even among teens.
- New Labour Party scheme: NHS staff will turn up at a place of work unannounced and proceed to weigh any employees over the age of 40, check their blood pressure and measure their cholesterol. What about all the people waiting for care?
- What the censors got wrong about covid.
- The gender gap: “boys are behind girls throughout school, especially throughout K12 … the top 10% of students, measured by their GPA, break two-thirds female, one third male; and the bottom 10% … is the other way around.”
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Monday Links
- Economic Freedom index: the US has dropped to number 25.
- CMS drug negotiations: The private sector – without government intervention – negotiated drug savings that were more than triple the amount negotiated by the Biden Administration. Also, CMS, in showing off the results of its negotiations, calculated the discounted figures from the list prices of the 10 drugs, and not the prices at which they’re typically sold, which include rebates and discounts.
- As a senator, Kamala Harris sponsored what may be the most expansive and expensive social welfare bill ever introduced in Congress.
- How birds know where to migrate: quantum mechanics.
- What if, in the second half of the 20th century, there had been no decolonization? Argument: people living in the colonies would today be better off.
- Galt’s Gulch really exists — off the coast of Honduras.
Where Did All the Covid Relief Money Go?
Most absurd, nearly $2 billion of American Rescue Plan funds were earmarked for nonexistent county governments in Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Source: Jacob Lane, Wall Street Journal
Bogus Research is Very Costly
Publishing one’s findings from research allows others to test the theories and build on them in future research. This collaborative approach often roots out bogus findings, but sometimes safeguards fail, and researchers are led down the wrong path.