For the next week or so, I’ll be on a cycling tour of a different continent, and I plan to spend zero time thinking about health care.
I’ll be back at it in about ten days.
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Posted 12 July 2008
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Remember the heterosexual AIDS scare? No? Well, throughout the 1980s, the WHO and the “news” media issued a seemingly endless stream of apocalyptic warnings about an impending worldwide AIDS pandemic. Turns out it was just another load of BS:
In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organisations may have been misdirected, Kevin de […]
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Posted 09 June 2008
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But this character and several accomplices kept calling …
… and I succumbed.
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Posted 26 April 2008
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I don’t have an inner child. I have an inner libertarian. The other day, he announced that he has the cure for ER overcrowding. The ensuing discussion went like this:
Catron: A Cure? For ER overcrowding?
IL: Yep.
Catron: OK, I’ll bite.
IL: Is it not true that GruntDoc, Scalpel, Nurse K, Whitecoat, Shadowfax, and other medbloggers are always lamenting the large number of drug seekers that clog […]
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Posted 15 April 2008
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It would appear that government-run health care is among the Stuff White People Like:
In spite of having access to the best health insurance and fanciest hospitals, white people are passionate about the idea of socialized medicine.
But how commited are they to universal health care?
So much so that they have memorized statistics and examples of how for-profit medicine has destroyed the […]
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Posted 07 April 2008
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As I have pointed out before, a number of analysts have shown that net health effect of global warming is likely to be positive. However, like most religious sects, the Chuch of Warmism is impervious to objective data. Thus, we have hysterical nonsense such as this from USA Today:
From deadly heat waves in the Midwest and Northeast to more intense Gulf Coast hurricanes […]
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Posted 03 April 2008
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Forbes Magazine has published what may be the most one-sided health care article I’ve ever read. Its author, David Whelan, depicts your local community hospital as a kind of mini-Microsoft that uses underhanded tactics to squelch legitimate competition:
Over the past several years the hospital industry, through legally questionable bullying tactics and arduous lobbying, has all but stamped out expansion […]
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Posted 07 March 2008
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If you live in a place where it’s reasonably warm outside, you need to get away from your computer—now. My (other) avocation is bird photography, so I’ll be spending my day with people like this:
If you live in a place where it’s too cold to do such things in March, I recommend moving South.
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Posted 01 March 2008
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Last Fall, I wrote a post highlighting Bjorn Lomborg’s very plausible claim that global warming was actually a net positive for global health. But now it appears that we may never get to enjoy the benefits of increasingly balmy terrestrial temperatures. Daily Tech reports the following:
All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. […]
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Posted 27 February 2008
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The reason most conspiracy theories fail the giggle test is that they require implausible levels of venality and cooperation on the part of the conspirators. An illustrative example of this can be found in Dr. Rich’s theory on why cardiac arrest patients purportedly don’t receive defibrillation as quickly in hospitals as they get it in public places.
But, unfortunately, there is a big and fundamental difference between […]
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Posted 06 January 2008
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