John Goodman and the Obamacare Death Spiral

Anyone not know what adverse selection is?
The Death Spiral is what destroys insurance.
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Econ 102, the Michigan Longitudinal Study

Everybody likes to talk about money.
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Golden Rice Makes Sense

The Greenpeace fanatics on Genetic Modification have been condemning golden rice, which is modified to have vitamin A.
Problem is some people have a monochromatic diet. That produces deficiencies that other countries don’t see.
http://acsh.org/2014/01/64151/

Fred Singer Goes After Mikey Mann

I can’t get enough of Fred Singer showing that Michael Mann is a charlatan and deceiver.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/the_inventor_of_the_global_warming_hockey_stick_doubles_down.html

California in a Panic Again

It’s dry and dusty and the flakes of California with their matching t shirts are protesting.
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Scared of Soap?

Angela Logomasini writes often and well on environmental regs for Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).
Here she discusses the antibacterial Triclosan chemophobe scare recently rebooted by the EPA and anxious enviros.
http://cei.org/onpoint/green-campaign-against-triclosan-dangerous-and-regressive

Fungal Meningitis and FDA Malfeisance

Problem of FDA Failure to monitor the compounding of a pharmaceutical preparation.
One of the authors is my friend Jerry Arnett, physician from West Virginny.

Buzzards in the West Virginny Skies

I predicted the lawsuits about a spill of non toxic 4-methylcyclohexane methanol yesterday, and
today I hear of a wave of lawsuits.
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Marijuana III

I saw this essay by Selwyn Duke, a frequent essayist for American Thinker.
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Jahi and Brain Death

This essay was thoughtful, written by a physician who provides an historical, medical, ethical, cultural and legal perspective on the brain death issue.
No one should have written up a death certificate.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/jahi_mcmath_is_alive.html

Atttteeennnnnhut

I run into old friends of the JunkScience.com who say–well let’s stick to science, no reason to consider the social/political/economic/pedagogical stuff. Why do you mess with the economics or social sciences?
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Another Ice Monster Scare from the 70s, from the CRU

Recently warmers have been claiming that they never said anything about a cooling crisis in the 70s.
Goddard is continuing to make them recall.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/01/13/1972-cru-chief-said-that-earth-would-definitely-cool-over-the-next-two-centuries/