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Wednesday, September 4, 2019
It's Really Hard to Lie Convincingly
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You know how ads for dietary supplements show up on your Facebook feed, and they're so convincing that you feel utterly compelled to buy...
Sunday, September 1, 2019
Chronic Illness and Opioid Poisoning Deaths
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An unappreciated piece of the opioid narrative is the fact that a large proportion of the people who die from taking prescription opioids ar...
Medical Nihilism
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I recently read an excellent book called Medical Nihilism by Jacob Stegenga. I strongly recommend this book. Here is the recent Econtalk w...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
What It Means For a Worker To Be Exploited
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The charge is often made that low wage workers are being "exploited" by their employers. What is meant by "exploited" is...
Sunday, August 4, 2019
The Minimum Wage: a Modest Proposal on Data Gathering
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What follows will be a mere data gathering proposal. I'm not intrinsically arguing for or against a minimum wage with this post, just ar...
Weird Bullet-Biting by Minimum Wage Proponents
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It's frustrating how the argument sometimes changes from "minimum wages have no effect on unemployment or job counts" to ...
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Prescription Opioid Abuse Trends in the 1980s and 1990s
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Most discussions of the so-called "opioid epidemic" constrain themselves to the 1999 to present period. This is mainly due to data...
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