- Sex matters. (Although some people are claiming it doesn’t)
- Julian Assange gets a plea deal: no jail time from misuse of classified documents. Hmm. Isn’t this the same crime for which a special prosecutor is trying to send Trump to prison?
- The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is wrong: Biden not Trump, added more to our pubic debt than any other president in history.
- “Black youth were 10 times more likely to die by homicide than white youth, and Native American youth were twice as likely to die by suicide than white youth.” Recommended.
- Is it hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk? No.
- The uninsured share of the population will rise from 7.7% to 8.9 percent in 2034.
Category: Thursday Links
Thursday Links
- Does the Constitution guarantee a right to take drugs?
- How did this become a crime? McKinsey allegedly tried to help Purdue tailor its sales efforts to doctors who already prescribed oral opioid drugs.
- Yglesias: Americans have been gaining weight for as far back as we have records.
- More from Yglesias: The human animal … evolved to overeat a modest amount whenever food is widely available in order to hedge against starvation risk in the future.
- New Alzheimer’s treatments are bogged down by Medicare’s bureaucracy. (Chicago Tribune)
Thursday Links
- 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.
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.”