- Richard Hanania reviews Christopher Rufo’s book, America’s Cultural Revolution.
- Another review by Bryon Caplan: “The current denial of academic freedom truly is much worse than McCarthyism ever was.”
- Can psychedelics sometimes be useful?
- On an average night, close to 600,000 people in the country will be homeless, and about 20% will be dealing with severe mental illness. (WSJ)
- Two views of Jesse Jackson: NYT: hagiographic; WSJ: he was a dishonest shakedown artist who engaged in race baiting for personal profit.
Category: Monday Links
Monday Links
- British patients are not grateful for the free care they receive from the NHS.
- Pfizer: antibiotic shortage could worsen syphilis epidemic. (NYT)
- Should you worry about “forever chemicals” in your drinking water?
- Turley to Zuckerberg: “Release the Facebook Files.”
- Evidence lacking that dietary supplements sharpen the mind.
- Negative results from Portugal’s experiment with decriminalization of drug use.
- Another article on drug shortages that fails to ask the obvious question: Why isn’t there a shortage of aspirin?
Monday Links
- 93% of cancer centers report a shortage of carboplatin and 70% report shortages for cisplatin.
- Up to 500,000 U.S. cancer patients could be at risk of having their treatment disrupted. (WSJ)
- WHO is about to declare that Aspartame, a common artificial sweetener, is “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” The back and forth on this issue never seems to end.
- Expected lifetime out-of-pocket spending by Medicare enrollees: $157,500 (Fidelity) to $197,000 (Employee Benefit Research Institute). (NYT)
- A single year with a grossly ineffective teacher can cost a classroom of students $1.4 million in lifetime earnings. Yet it can take 10 years and $250,000 to $450,000 to fire a lousy California teacher, and fewer than 0.002% are dismissed for unprofessional conduct or poor performance. (WSJ)
Monday Links
- New diabetic wonder drugs come from two ugly predators: Angler fish and Gila monsters. (NYT)
- Tyler Cowen on the lab leak. (Should we hope it’s true?)
- Casey Mulligan on the household burden of green policies: a poor household pays almost 9% of its income to pay for green policies whereas the rich pay 1.5%.
- Dr. Marty Makary: Ten reasons why we know Covid-19 leaked from the Wuhan lab.
- AMA: BMI standards are racist.