Why We Don’t Take Our Meds, Part 3

I’ve been lambasting the recent WHO report claiming that eating meat causes cancer, not because the report is worthy of anything more than a brief sneer, but because it’s an almost perfect specimen of what’s wrong with public health science. read more »

Why We Don’t Take Our Meds, Part 2

I’ve been amusing myself by examining the WHO meat-eating-causes-cancer report, which was widely and rightly ridiculed when it appeared a few weeks ago. In my last post we asked the question how a bunch of supposed experts from all over the world could have produced such a travesty, and we concluded it was inevitable because WHO was engaged not in a scientific inquiry but in an exercise in groupthink.(1) read more »

The Progressive Prescription

The world’s central bankers have done such a rotten job for so long that their constituency of satisfied customers is now down to two: equity investors, who’ve seen their stocks soar to the stratosphere for no fundamental reason, and governments, who’ve been able to pile on massive indebtedness at virtually no cost. But even those customers aren’t going to be satisfied for long. Stock prices are cruising for a bruising, and when rates rise every government on the planet will be bankrupt. read more »

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