- AI induced psychosis is real for some patients.
- Has Trump fixed the federal government’s marijuana problem?
- Spending on 65+ individuals will reach 50% of federal outlays by 2029.
- China is willing to approve things like drone delivery, driverless cars and trucks, and remote-operated air taxis that Americans and Europeans balk at. (NYT)
- Against Clinton-era welfare reform.
Category: News and Events
Thursday Links – 1 January 2026
- Medical breakthroughs in 2025.
- Canadian health care: Since 2015, indigenous people have suffered a catastrophic collapse in health and well-being: on average almost a full decade of lost life expectancy.
- Study: Children’s myopia risk linked to smartphone use.
- Diets high in ultra processed food may be linked to problems across almost every major organ system.
- Since Covid, the USA has grown much faster than all our major competitors.
What It Took to Become a Doctor on the Texas Frontier
In the early 1800s just about anyone could claim to be a doctor regardless of medical training.
Lots of Fraud
A lot of ink is being (justifiably) spilled over the Minnesota welfare fraud, in which Somali communities defrauded the Medicaid system out of at least $250 million, and as much as $18 billion. But this is only the biggest and most audacious case of government fraud that has cropped up in recent years.
Source: Noah Smith