- Maybe you don’t really need to take statins.
- The Final and Definitive Ruling on Masks: They Don’t Work.
- ON Covid recommendations from Fauci, et. al.: “All those policies, all those recommendations, all the turmoil, and it turns out we might as well just flipped a coin.”
- Study: male sperm counts around the world are not dropping. (HT: Tyler)
- Study: late bedtimes significantly increase the risks of depression, anxiety, and other behavioral disorders.
Category: Thursday Links
Thursday Links
- Capretta’s eat-your-spinach reform idea for Medicare: cut benefits and raise taxes.
- Florida’s answer to the doctor shortage: invite Latin American doctor to immigrate.
- Study: Taxes are a huge drag on innovation.
- “All told, British patients had access to just 59% of the 460 drugs launched between 2012 and 2021, as of October 2022. American patients had access to 85% of those drugs—more than any other country in the world.”
Thursday Links
- Officials believe hundreds of people … posed as customers in dozens of businesses across Chicago and elsewhere, all hoping to win favorable immigration status by becoming “victims” of pre-arranged “armed robberies.”
- Thanks to Medicare, Americans 65 and older in 2022 received medical services worth more than twice as much as those received by Americans aged 25 to 64 ($14,310 vs. $7,096) but paid less in premiums and out-of-pocket costs ($2,216 vs. $2,586).
- Study: Fewer child care regulations are associated with women having more children. (HT: Tyler)
- Robin Hanson continues his debate with Scott Alexander.
- Zero Tolerance laws (setting strict alcohol limits for drivers under age 21) have positive, lifelong effects on the health and income of adolescents.
Thursday Links
- Can chronic anger produce physical health effects?
- Why is Food Stamp spending soaring?
- About 3 million people who were on Medicaid, thought they were uninsured.
- Danish study: having children does not lower the mother’s lifetime income.
- The cost of extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts could be paid for by undoing much of the Biden administration’s spending binge.
- The sources of fake science are “paper mills” — businesses or individuals that, for a price, will list a scientist as an author of a wholly or partially fabricated paper. (WSJ)