Tevi Troy, generally a sensible man and prolific writer on public issues, takes on a discussion of Mayor and professional nanny, Michael Bloomberg.
Last week I discussed this Medici of the modern age, who spent more than 600 million of his own money to facilitate and inflate and flaunt his mayoralty, in violation of the spirit if not the letter of American Law and Government.
We don’t elect monarchs or even Dukes or Counts here. He got away with his behavior and extravagance because he was rich, worth in the range of 30 billion adn New Yorkers and the New York press do love to kiss up to rich guys with big egos.
http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_1_bloomberg.html
Thus Spake Richard Lindzen
Richard Lindzen once said to me from the audience–no that’s not right.
What an honor to be corrected by a climate science genius.
And here Dr. Lindzen, now emeritus Prof at MIT, makes some observations about catastrophic warming.
What Catastrophe? MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen, the unalarmed climate scientist
Is Coal on Life Support?
From my friend, great physicist and advocate for sensible energy policy and reliable climate science, Gordon Fulks.
Continue reading Is Coal on Life Support?
Meth Grasshopper? Make you strong.
Imagine that speed would make a person like your traditional herbal remedy?
http://qz.com/163076/how-a-massive-meth-bust-in-china-is-tied-to-traditional-medicine/
Newsman Suffers Anxiety Attack
Gee, there just isn’t enough information on the health risks of fracking for this Penn journalist.
http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/01/when_it_comes_to_the_public_health_implications_of_gas_drilling_pa_has_its_head_in_the_shale.html
Censorship and Statist Coercion
Fanatics cannot accept coexistence of ideas. Regardless of the subject mattter, social science, hard science, public policy making, political correctness intimidation has changed the language, even censored those who would disagree with the state or elite promoted canon.
Continue reading Censorship and Statist Coercion
Turney and the Ice Cruise
Clarice Feldman provides some commentary on Turney, and the stranded Ice Cruise.
Continue reading Turney and the Ice Cruise
Junk Science Healthcare Policy on Emergency Visits
You might ask why is there a dogma that universal health insurance coverage would reduce Emergency Department utilization? All the smart guys say so, all the way up to the President.
Well, in fact the consensus about ED visits and utilization has always been based on junk science analysis.
Continue reading Junk Science Healthcare Policy on Emergency Visits
I'm Toxic, Hand me the Detox Stuff
This is a very lucid discussion of another junkscience scam–detoxing.
Detoxing is a health food supplement type scam that pretends to eliminate something bad–kinda like purging and cleansing enemas. Nonsense.
Thomas Nagel Identifies the Problem
You think that David Gelernter presented some troubling considerations for modern science? You might recall he mentioned Thomas Nagel and his new book that created such a furor on the academic left, since he is–or was, an icon of the left.
Continue reading Thomas Nagel Identifies the Problem
This'll Make Your Day–Poverty is Down
Julian Simon predicted it, the success of the Human Race because of inventiveness, creativity, and energy.
Sit down, smoke a cigar, have a drink and consider this.
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/12/chart-of-the-greatest-and-most-remarkable-achievement-in-human-history-and-one-you-probably-never-heard-about/
Could it be–Warmers are Toast?
I can’t really believe this, since the media/academia/political army are not that easy to disassemble.
But we can hope, can’t we?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/01/the_global_warming_tipping_point_is_near.html