- Tyler Cowen: 2022 was a great year for affirming the wisdom of classical economic theory.
- Debunking the benefits of exercise. (speculative)
- Researchers discovered more than half a million conspiratorial and misleading English languages tweets about covid. NYT still hasn’t discovered Elon Musk’s released tweets showing how Twitter censored good information and promoted bad. I guess you have to watch Fox News to know about that.
- The fact that we failed to notice 99.999% of life on Earth until a few years ago is unsettling and has implications for Mars. HT: Tyler
- Why did the IRA bill allow the free-food-for-kids program to expire, while extending tax subsidies for health insurance for the rich. (NYT) Answer: kids don’t vote.
Category: Tuesday Links
Tuesday Links
How Twitter suppressed information about Covid. I think I now understand why the mainstream media has been ignoring everything Elon Musk is releasing about Twitter. Everything that happened at Twitter was also happening at the NYT, CNN, WaPo, etc. A meta-analysis of 62 studies finds that narcissism is positively correlated with time spent on social media, frequency of…
Wednesday Links
- Medicaid enrollment to top 100 million as early as next month.
- Catholic Charities and other NGOs have been transporting illegal immigrants all over the country, with taxpayer funding. Who knew?
- What’s in the Omnibus: ending the pandemic policy that prohibited states from taking people off Medicaid, easing Medicare payment cuts for doctors and potentially extending telehealth policies for two years.
- Health care rationing: CVS is limiting shoppers to just two items of children’s pain and fever medicines, both in-store and online, while Walgreens is restricting online shoppers to six items. (Bloomberg)
- Global coal consumption is set to match its all-time high, because of environmentalists’ aversion to much cleaner natural gas.
- Yglesias: Alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana.
Tuesday Links
- Evidence against The Great Barrington Declaration’s idea of focused protection.
- The feds are cracking down on Medicare Advantage plans.
- CDC: Flu season appears to be normal, despite the media hype.
- CTUP study: Government payments and free health care benefits can pay more than the annual equivalent of a $100,000 job in three states, and the equivalent of an $80,000 a year job in 13 states.