Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Comparisons to the Flu are Relevant

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There is a type of person who becomes apoplectic if you try to compare covid to the flu. I noticed this from the very beginning of the pande...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Against “Kinder, Gentler” Socialism

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There have been some recent attempts to resuscitate and rejuvenate the dead ideas of socialism. Despite its having been thoroughly refuted b...

Study on the Origins of the Opioid Crisis Published

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 Almost two years ago, I wrote this post describing a pre-print paper on the origins of the opioid crisis. It was an interesting attempt, ...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Overall Mortality and Drug-Related Mortality by Age, 1999-2018

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With Covid-19 hitting the world in mid-2020, I was having a lot of thoughts about how to measure public health crises. Covid deaths were num...
Saturday, October 9, 2021

"There is no evidence..."

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I'm growing tired of arguments and pronouncements that don the mantle of science but then proceed to make the most embarrassingly false ...
Sunday, September 19, 2021

New Study Comparing Natural Immunity to the Vaccine

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There was an interesting study out of Israel comparing natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity for SARS-Cov-2. Generally it finds that...
Friday, September 3, 2021

Unknown Long Term Consequences

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 I want to make a point about the topic everyone's worried about, but I don't want to unnecessarily freak anyone out. As in, if you...