- Fauci’s diaries: he apparently conspired to hold back the Covid vaccine to help Hillary in the fall election against Trump.
- Why do we eat chicken eggs, instead of eggs from ducks, geese or even emus?
- The field of pediatrics is increasingly moving toward regionalized hub-and-spoke models organized around comprehensive “centers of excellence.” This is why care must be available across state lines.
- New study: ultra-processed food consumption may account for between 23% and 38% of cardiovascular disease cases and deaths among Canadian adults.
- Is the person you’re dating the right one for you? An app will answer that question. (WSJ)
- About 400 million people worldwide and 25 to 30 million people in the US have a rare disease. Half are children and a third die before age 5. (NYT)
- The case against non-FDA-approved peptides. (NYT)
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Like the Soviet Union and its gulag prison-work camps, Mao established the laogai prison system in 1949. Eventually, an estimated 1,000 laogai prisons operated nationwide. “Hitler had his concentration camps, Stalin had his gulag, and the Chinese Communist Party had the laogai,” said Harry Wu, activist and former political prisoner.
WSJ: Should Sociology be Eliminated as an Academic Discipline?
When I began my doctoral studies the professor who ran the graduate program in Political Economy was a sociologist. He was originally interested in mathematics but realized that he would never be among the best mathematicians. He pursued sociology because many sociologists are not analytical nor gifted in math. Math and statistics allow you to measure things. Since he was great at math he knew he could be among the best sociologists in the world. Yet not all sociologists are as dedicated to empirical research as he is.
Wednesday Links – 29 July 2026
- Reality Check: there is no massive leftwing bias in AI chat boxes.
- “The share of people who are hungry has been decreasing faster in South America than anywhere else in the world”
- Is the Odyssey really a Christian movie?
- Ranking health care in the states: New Hampshire is first, Alaska is last.
- The low down on processed foods.