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Category: Wednesday Links

Wednesday Links

Posted on June 18, 2025June 17, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • AAF: Contra Biden Admin., monopoly is not a problem in the US economy.
  • Richard McKensie: Trump’s “beautiful bill” will raise federal spending in 2035 to at least 24 percent of GDP from 23.1 percent this year (and 20.6 percent in 2019, before COVID)
  • Use and misuse of Ivermectin.
  • Covid Redux: “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee decided to inoculate essential workers ahead of seniors, even though its own modeling suggested this would increase deaths by up to 7 percent.”
  • More evidence that taxes on capital affect investment.
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Wednesday Links

Posted on June 11, 2025June 10, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • FDA allows Florida to import Canadian drugs.
  • Trump budget rescissions: ten woke programs get axed.
  • Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel.
  • NIH employees sign letter protesting the cancellation of “woke” research projects.
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Wednesday Links

Posted on May 28, 2025May 27, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Among beneficiaries without subsidies, the percent who did not fill a prescription for a specialty drug within 90 days was 30 percent for anticancer drugs, 22 percent for hepatitis C treatments, and more than 50 percent for disease-modifying therapies for either immune system disorders or hypercholesterolemia. 
  • Why Social Security finances will steadily worsen indefinitely into the future.
  • On current trends Africans will make up over 80% of the world’s poor by 2030.
  • Some hospitals are still getting hundreds of millions in Covid funding from FEMA. (Statnews)
  • The federal government’s new-car fuel economy standards (CAFE) have resulted in thousands of traffic deaths.
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Wednesday Links

Posted on May 14, 2025May 14, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Claim:  it was the Obama administration that paused funding for high-risk (gain of function) studies in 2014. The ban was lifted by none other than Donald Trump in 2017.
  • Yarvin’s strange argument on populism and Gain-of-Function research
  • Firing squads are making a comeback.
  • US patients pay almost three times more than the average price paid in OECD countries for brand drugs, but we pay a third less than other countries for generics.
  • The case against Medicaid budget cuts. (unimaginative)
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