Wednesday Links – 12 June 2024

The psychology of the medical whistleblower revealed.

85% of disproportionate share hospitals (DSHs) earned more in 340B profit than they spent on charity care costs.

An argument that there is no placebo effect.

NYT endorses the lab leak theory — devoting two entire pages to the evidence:

Although how the pandemic started has been hotly debated, a growing volume of evidence — gleaned from public records released under the Freedom of Information Act, digital sleuthing through online databases, scientific papers analyzing the virus and its spread, and leaks from within the U.S. government — suggests that the pandemic most likely occurred because a virus escaped from a research lab in Wuhan, China. If so, it would be the most costly accident in the history of science.